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Afghanistan
Rights group urges no amnesty for Afghan Taliban
2012-11-27
[Dawn] An international human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
group urged Afghan authorities on Monday to refuse to provide Taliban hard boyz with immunity from prosecution in return for peace talks.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
(HRW) said President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
's Western-backed administration had pledged amnesty for the Taliban if they join a Kabul-backed peace scheme.

"Providing immunity from prosecution for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious human rights abuses violates international law," HRW said in a statement.

"Future government talks with the Taliban should not hinge upon denying justice to victims of war crimes and other abuses," said Brad Adams, the group's Asia director. "Afghanistan's civilians should not be forced to choose between justice and peace."

Citing recent comments by Karzai's peace envoy Salahuddin Rabbani, HRW said the administration had promised immunity to Taliban officials joining peace talks and that their names would be removed from UN sanctions lists.

This month, Rabbani negotiated the release of nine Taliban prisoners held in Pak jails in the hope of pushing negotiations forward.

Karzai's government has been desperately trying to broker a peaceful end to the insurgency, which has been led by the Taliban since they were ousted from power by a US-led invasion in 2001.

The Taliban have publicly rejected Karzai's call for peace, dismissing his government as a puppet of the United States.
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