War Crimes In Afghanistan

War Crimes in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has been a country filled with violence for over 30 years. Today, most of the media covers only the progress in rebuilding the country. There have been some improvements in Afghanistan, however, the war crimes, and the human rights abuses haven’t received as much attention. The Soviet Union, the United states, the Taliban and Pakistani ISI have been the culprits of the war crimes in Afghanistan. . During the Soviet war, over a million afghans were killed, and many more were injured. There are many witnesses on the murders. In the September of 1984, a doctor that was interviewed witnessed Soviet troops in an Afghan village. He reported, “They tied them up and piled them like wood. They poured gasoline

Counterinsurgency operations aren’t always very effective. Pilots of aircraft can’t always tell the difference between a village, and an insurgency base. Unfortunately, the villagers don’t get the benefit of doubt. A study by the UN High Commissioner for Human RIghts showed that in one of the operations executed by the soviets, 3 villages were destroyed, and 505 civilians were executed. The study did not receive much attention by the media, because the Afghanistan war was not a television war. Instead, the Soviet government were able to take cameras away from the action. Firsthand reports mainly come from journalists, and scholars that go in from Pakistan alongside resistance groups. The UN group were forced to rely on mostly Afghan refugees as sources, approximately 4 million of them. There were many reports on soviet soldiers bombing, and killing women and children. Other sources, such as the Paris-based Medecins sans Frontiers, that operates six hospitals in Afghanistan, gives primary information as well. Its executive director, Dr. Claude Malhuret, reveals that the Soviets have deliberately destroyed hospitals run by the European group. He also revealed that they planted mines designed to injure its victims, rather than killing them, because injuring them would give the hospitals more trouble, than killing them would. The doctor also

Taliban fighters kept calling her to ask about the whereabouts of the women whom she had been helping. She and several other women managed to receive assistance for themselves and their children to flee to safety. She told Amnesty International she and her family escaped with no luggage.

There were other supporters of the Taliban. there were reports that the United States and Pakistan actively supported the Taliban and ignored the human rights violations by the Taliban regime. This was done to facilitate the construction of a natural gas pipeline. What remains hidden is the extent of America’s involvement in the rise of the Taliban. In a recent interview, the former Saudi Ambassador to Afghanistan, says that the US was directly involved in the sponsorship of the Taliban because they were anti-Iranian.

There were many atrocities that happened to the Afghan people, by the Soviets, the Taliban, and the Pakistani ISI, and the US CIA, that supported the Taliban. Hopefully, we would look at this as history, and in the future, we would not let this happen