Afghanistan, Amnesty: “UN resolution on human rights shameful”

“In the face of a crisis of absolutely extraordinary dimensions, the response of the international community is completely ordinary. The resolution adopted yesterday by the UN Human Rights Council is shameful, it merely asks for updates over a very long period of time. The request made to the Bodies of the United Nations by Amnesty International and by the Italian government itself of an independent investigation mechanism was rejected “. Riccardo Noury, spokesman for Amnesty International Italia, interviewed by Adnkronos, underscored the inadequacy of interventions for the protection of human rights in Afghanistan. “The denunciation of the high commissioner Michelle Bachelet confirms what local sources and Amnesty itself are claiming: the Taliban did not arrive in Kabul by spaceship, they committed very serious crimes in advancing through the various provinces before reaching the capital. We – he recalls – we denounced the massacre of the Hazara, there is much more we are investigating “. Noury ​​then invites us to reflect on the need to postpone the date of 31 August, deadline for evacuation from the country. “In Biden’s speech last night, the message seems to be clear: what we do by August 31, then we abandon all the others to their fate. Add to this that the list of governments that are placing conditions, if not erecting walls , compared to the influx of refugees it is always longer. In the scarce week until 31 August we ask the other G7 states to persuade the United States to negotiate another date, because it is evident that by 31, as far as the bridge plane can be accelerated, not all people who are in great danger will be taken away “. “We are realists, it is not that in Afghanistan only those gentlemen with the black turban, the Koran in one hand and the machine gun in the other will have to remain. all that was in the proposal rejected yesterday by the UN Human Rights Council which, however, should be reconvened within 2 weeks and we hope it will pass. We ask the Italian government to insist – concludes Noury ​​- its position on that point coincided exactly with ours ” .