UN officials want a commission on Afghan killings
Asma Jahangir, UN Special Rapporteur on
extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, said at a conference in
Peshawar on 11 January that as a result of her visit to several Afghan
cities she will recommend next week that the United Nations establish a
commission to investigate human rights abuses that have taken place in
Afghanistan over the past 23 years, the BBC reported. "If this issue
can create a rumpus, why not now, instead of waiting five years when there
will be no one to guarantee peace?" Jahangir said, according to the
BBC. The issue of past human rights abuses in Afghanistan remains a very
sensitive political issue, as some of those accused of being serious violators
of human rights in the past are either part of the current Afghan Transitional
Administration or control swaths of the country and have more military
power than the central government in Kabul. AT
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