{"id":23782,"date":"2026-10-12T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/12\/pakistan-war-crimes-targeting-civilians-richard-bennett-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:15:17","slug":"pakistan-war-crimes-targeting-civilians-richard-bennett-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/12\/pakistan-war-crimes-targeting-civilians-richard-bennett-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Committed War Crimes by Targeting Civilians, UN Rights Rapporteur Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bennett, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights for Afghanistan, says Pakistan has committed war crimes by targeting Afghan civilians and must be held accountable. He has called for a full and independent investigation into the incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC, Bennett said the incidents were likely war crimes and that the victims and their families have the right to seek justice and accountability. He stressed that the International Criminal Court should take action to examine the incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN rights rapporteur Richard Bennett says Pakistan likely committed war crimes by targeting Afghan civilians and calls for an independent probe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-secondary-headline","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}