KABUL (SW) – Sima Samar, head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, on Wednesday called for investigations into war crimes committed here.
She was addressing a session in connection to remember the victims of international terrorism. She urged the Afghan government and the international community to pave way for the International Criminal Court to probe war crimes in Afghanistan. Sima Samar particularly underlined the role of the United Nations in this regard.
Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, told the moot it is the time to tell war victims they are not alone, and justice would be done. He said 5222 civilians have lost lives in Afghanistan in the first six months of 2018, which is ‘horrific’.
According to the AIHRC, more than 64,000 civilians sustained casualties in Afghanistan in the past nine years alone.
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