KABUL: An Afghan official said on Saturday that Saddam Hussein’s trial and execution show a double standard in the international community, as no one in Afghanistan has been prosecuted for atrocities from the country’s 25 years of war.
Ahmad Nadir Nadery, an official with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, said war crimes trials would end the impunity enjoyed by Afghan warlords.
“This is something we need in Afghanistan, and it's something the international community has forgotten to do here,” Nadery said.
He said Saddam's execution signals a double standard “in terms of dealing with the past atrocities in Iraq, but ignoring Afghanistan.”
Afghan President Humid Karzai said the killing of Saddam was “the work of the Iraqi government” and would have “no effect” on Afghanistan.
However, he appeared to criticize the execution's timing.
Lack of Afghan war crime trials shows ‘double standard’ -DAWN - International; December 31, 2006
An interesting point and I would like to hear the answers myself.
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