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Subject: UN wants Afghan killings investigated Author: No name [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 16:31:56 12/03/01 Mon from Anne B..thanks! UN wants Afghan killings investigated http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_451018.html?menu=news.latestheadlines The UN says reports of mass executions in Afghanistan must be properly investigated. A human rights expert says the perpetrators must brought to justice. Officials and aid agencies have expressed concern that hundreds of civilians and captured soldiers have been massacred. "There is now an urgent need to ensure that these crimes are promptly and independently investigated," said Asma Jahangir, a specialist on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions for the UN. She said: "There can be no impunity for these widespread and systematic killings, which may amount to crimes against humanity." There are reports that 100 young Taliban recruits were executed by the northern alliance after they surrendered in Mazar-e-Sharif. There are also rumours that prisoners and civilians were being killed by all sides. Mary Robinson, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has warned the world would not tolerate abuses as power changed hands in Afghanistan. She blamed all sides in the conflict of grave breaches of human rights. Jahangir said she was convinced the only way to achieve peace in Afghanistan was if "those responsible for ordering and carrying out grave human rights violations are apprehended and held accountable for their crimes in trials that conform to international human rights standards". Story filed: 13:12 Friday 16th November 2001 [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]