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| Presidential Candidates Cannot be Rights Violators: AIHRC |
| 2013-04-15 |
| [TOLONEWS] Ahead of the upcoming election, there must be a solution to prevent those who have violated human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and those who are war criminals to not participate in the election. We must not let them gain power," AIHRC executive director Mousa Mahmoodi told TOLOnews. The Independent Election Commission encourages all residents of Afghanistan, including those who are part of armed opposition groups, to participate in the election - as long as they are not recognised as criminals by any court of law and no charges of human rights violations have been proven against them. "The Independent Election Commission [IEC] wants all residents of Afghanistan to participate in the election. Even armed Orcs and similar vermin are allowed to participate if they put their guns down," IEC front man Noor Mohammad Noor said. "I must say that at the present time there are people in the Afghanistan system that have human rights violation charges but because the court has not recognised them as criminals we are allowing them to participate in the upcoming election," he added. Human rights groups have often said that many people both inside and outside the Afghan government are guilty of human rights violations and war crimes, but they have never been brought to a court of law because of their influence and power. |
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