The militants allegedly want to eliminate journalists and those who held key positions in security agencies
Reuters has reported, citing analysis by Norwegian intelligence, that militants of the radical Taliban movement are drawing up blacklists of supporters of the former Afghan government, 112 Ukraine reports. The list includes journalists and individuals who held key positions in security agencies.
“The Taliban intensify the hunt for all representatives and supporters of the fallen regime and, if unsuccessful, target their families. They arrest them and punish them according to their interpretation of sharia law… Those who held key positions in the army, police, and investigative agencies are especially at risk”, – the report said.
In particular, many of those currently at Kabul airport in the hope of being evacuated have been blacklisted.
According to Deutsche Welle, the militants are deliberately seeking journalists for reprisals. In Kabul and the provinces, the Taliban have raided the homes of relatives of at least three media company employees. In western Afghanistan, the Taliban killed one close relative of a DW journalist and seriously wounded another on August 19. The militants were looking for the journalist himself, who is now already in Germany.