Ethnic Violence in Afghanistan

In April, Human Rights Watch released "Paying for the Taliban's Crimes: Abuses Against Ethnic Pashtuns in Northern Afghanistan." The UN, in turn, has distributed translated copies of our report to warlords in the region. A May 10 article in the Christian Science Monitor reports that, "northern Afghanistan's most important power broker," General Abdul Rashid Dostum, "admonished more than 90 commanders for alleged atrocities committed by their soldiers after the fall of the Taliban.