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“No Forgiveness for People Like You”

Executions and Enforced Disappearances in Afghanistan under the Taliban

The 25-page report, “‘No Forgiveness for People Like You,’ Executions and Enforced Disappearances in Afghanistan under the Taliban,” documents the killing or disappearance of 47 former members of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) – military personnel, police, intelligence service members, and militia – who had surrendered to or were apprehended by Taliban forces between August 15 and October 31. Human Rights Watch gathered credible information on more than 100 killings from Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, and Kunduz provinces alone.

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  • Liberia: The Cycle of Abuse

    Human Rights Violations Since the November Cease-fire

    On November 28, 1990, Liberia's warring factions signed a cease-fire agreement, theoretically ending 11 months of fighting that had ravaged the country.

  • On the Eve of "Change:" Transition to What?

    On or before October 1, 1992, Nigeria’s government will hand over the reins to civilian leaders of the Third Republic. In this report, Africa Watch shows how years of military rule have sapped the courts of the power to play a vital role in shaping a new democratic society.

  • El Salvador’s Decade Of Terror

    Human Rights Since the Assassination of Archbishop Romero

    The most comprehensive account now available on human rights violations in El Salvador, A Decade of Terror documents the civil war between an armed insurgency and the military-backed government, and explains how it has led to a decade of ferocious political violence that has cost thousands of civilian lives.

  • Human Rights in Northern Ireland

    Human rights abuses are persistent and chronic in Northern Ireland, affecting Protestants and Catholics alike, and are committed by both security forces and paramilitary groups in violation of international standards.

  • Criminal Injustice

    Violence Against Women in Brazil

    The Brazilian government is failing to prosecute violence against women in the home fully and fairly.

  • Abdication of Responsibility

    The Commonwealth and Human Rights

    Heads of state of Commonwealth nations meet this month in Harare, Zimbabwe.

  • Madrid Peace Conference

    The Human Rights Record Of The Principal Regional Parties

    This report includes the four governments that are coming to Madrid to negotiate peace agreements, as well as Egypt -- an observer at the conference -- and the Palestinian leadership.

  • Out of Sight

    The Misery in Bophuthatswana, South Africa

    Hidden under the reforms initiated by President de Klerk since February 2, 1990, human rights violations continue unabated in Bophuthatswana, one of South Africa's four so?called "independent" homelands. In the past 18 months political violence has resulted in the killing of 23 people, detention of 633 and injury of 481.

  • Unceasing Abuses

    Human Rights in Mexico One Year After the Introduction of Reform

    In spite of a surge in human rights activity in Mexico during the past year, the human rights situation does not seem to have improved: the volume and severity of reported abuses remain unchanged.

  • A Victory Turned Sour

    Human Rights in Kuwait since Liberation

    Following the liberation of Kuwait, the thirst to avenge the horrors of the Iraqi occupation spawned a new round of human rights victims this time at Kuwaiti hands.

  • Into the Quagmire: Human Rights and U.S. Policy in Peru

    The government of President Alberto Fujimori has been seriously challenged by insurgent threat from Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) and the Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA); both groups having been responsible for civilian casualties and other gross violations of the laws of war.

  • Evil Days

    30 Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia

    For the past thirty years under both Emperor Haile Selassie and President Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia has suffered continuous war and intermittent famine until every single province has been affected by war to some degree.

  • The Persecution of Gypsies in Romania

    From our “ Destroying Ethnic Identity Series”

    Ethnic hatred and violence directed against Gypsies in Romania has escalated dramatically since the 1989 revolution: rarely a month passed without another Gypsy village being attacked. Gypsy homes have been burned, their possessions destroyed, they have been chased from their villages, and often not allowed to return.

  • Prison Conditions in Czechoslovakia

    In 1989, Helsinki Watch severely criticized conditions in the Czech prison system. The criticism was in a report prepared by Professor Herman Schwartz, Chairman of the Human Rights Watch Prison Project Advisory Committee, and was based on numerous interviews in early 1988 with recently released prisoners.