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Afghanistan
Hezb-e-Islami apologizes to victims of devastating Afghan civil war
2016-09-24
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Hezb-e-Islami party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
has apologized to the victims of the devastating war the party was involved in 1990s, hours after the party signed the draft peace agreement with the Afghan government.
Two decades later? Golly.
A senior member of the party Qarib-ur-Rehman Syed told VOA’s Afghanistan service that "Hezb-e-Islami considers itself a member and party of the people. Hezb-e-Islami belongs to the people and people belongs to Hezb-e-Islami. In every and every second, we apologize from those who were hurt."
Clearly the people don't want Hezb-e-Islami, or Hezb-e-Islami would have been helped to glorious victory long ago.
Syed further added "We have in the past tendered apologies to the people since this is our home, village and people."

He said a special tribunal should be established to try those who have been involved in war crimes, including any member of Hezb-e-Islami.
Y'all know what you did. Why don't you just go on national television and confess instead?
The draft peace agreement with Hezb-e-Islami was signed during a ceremony in Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
after almost six months of negotiations between the Afghan government and the party.

The agreement is expected to be signed by President Mohammad 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. ..
and Hezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
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