Rights group, Afghan envoy want more probes into war crimes

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A leading international human rights group and an Afghan envoy on Thursday urged nations whose militaries have served as part of the US-led ...

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An honour guard is formed at Defence Headquarters in Canberra, Australia, on Nov 19, 2020, before findings from the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry are released.

“It’s important to understand that the elite Australian special forces were not alone in committing these atrocities,” said Patricia Gossman, senior researcher on Afghanistan for Human Rights Watch. A former adviser to the Afghan government, Torek Farhadi, said it took courage for the Australian government to publicly acknowledge the alleged crimes but that from “an Afghan's viewpoint, redress and compensation will be important.”Farhadi claimed abuses by the US-led coalition forces started being reported to Afghan leaders soon after the Taliban were overthrown by the US-led coalition in 2001.

While the ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda pledged to carry out an independent and impartial investigation, little has been done so far. Current Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's government has said it would not authorise any investigations into the conduct of Afghan forces, denying they were involved in any war crimes.

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