------- I wrote in my Farsi blog that Saddam Husain's execution is an alert to all war criminals in Afghanistan ; some weeks later HRW announced that the warlords’ crimes in Afghanistan should be punished. It has driven many to conduct debates and force the Karzai government to deny parliament and house of the nations where all war committed crimes were committed by their local forces. A sensitive issue in the country over the last three years; almost every one believed they overwhelm to media and international but it seems they are the most powerful. Powerful because they came to power again, supported the drug dealers and were honored by the international community. More than 80,000 civilians died in Kabul alone. Large numbers of others were kidnapped, mutilated or raped and hundreds of thousands became homeless and left the country. Just after September 11, the Bonn agreement fulfilled warlords’ wishes. “No problem, we have succeeded” was heard by many warlords. When...
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