Abdul Rashid Dostum
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Abdul Rashid Dostum is an Afghan exiled politician, former military officer and warlord. He is the founder and leader of the Junbish-e Milli political party, and was a senior army officer in the milit
Dostum in September 2014
Dostum (left) in 2005
Dostum (second from right) at the signing of the Bilateral Security Agreement on 30 September 2014
Dasht-i-Leili massacre
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In December 2001, between 250 and 2,000 Taliban insurgents who had surrendered to the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan were massacred while being transported to Sheberghan Prison in the Jowzja
Abdul Rashid Dostum
…However, he has also been widely accused of committing atrocities and war crimes, most notoriously the suffocation of up to 1,000 Taliban fighters in the Dasht-i-Leili massacre, and he was widely feared among the populace. In 2018, the International Criminal Court (ICC) was reported to be considering launching an inquiry into…
A mass grave containing Taliban prisoners in the Leili Desert, as discovered during a joint investigation by Physicians for Human Rights and the United Nations in 2002