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| Afghanistan |
| Ghani Promises Justice Over Taliban's Crimes Against Humanity |
| 2015-10-04 |
| [Tolo News] Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. said Saturday that a preliminary assessment of Kunduz city shows that the Taliban's actions against the people of Kunduz city are crimes against humanity and that those guilty will be identified and brought to justice. "Taliban and their terrorist collaborators in addition to causing fear and intimidation among the citizens of Kunduz, have resorted to extrajudicial killings of civil and military individuals and residents of Kunduz as well as torturing and harassing them". He said in a statement issued by the Presidential Palace that the Taliban has violated people's dignity and honor, resorted to rape, and set free the prisoners most of who had been convicted of murder or violation of people's dignity and property. "They looted people's belongings and government's property, set fire to a number of government buildings including those of Radio and Television, educational and higher educational institutions, and have inflicted severe losses on the business and commerce of the people of Kunduz province," the statement read. "They have also looted the belongings and properties of United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... offices, and other NGOs, consulates and representations of foreign countries." He went on to say that these acts - as reported in the latest release by "The government of Islamic Theocratic Republicof Afghanistan is committed to legally prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes, and to that end assigns a civilian commission to assess the losses sustained as a result of the Taliban presence in Kunduz City and the crimes that they have committed in this period, determine the scale of the losses, identify those responsible and surrender them to Law," the statement read. |
| Posted by:Fred |