OrangeSoul Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Why is this news? lots of warlords are killed or jailed everyday in afghanistan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LK. Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 12:10pm 19th July 2005 Afghan warlord Faryadi Zardad has been jailed for 20 years at the Old Bailey for a "heinous and brutal" campaign of torture and hostage-taking in his homeland. The judge, Mr Justice Treacy, told him that the crimes of which he had been convicted "transgressed the basic rights of humanity". Zardad had been in "a position of real power", the judge told him. "You were personally involved in these acts of torture and hostage-taking as well as authorising your men." Look here too... Skip gossip links to more articles * Troops charged over Iraq war crimes * Taskforce to take on extremists * Bombed underground carriage removed * Egypt suspect 'not linked to bombs' * Architect of BNP found dead at home * Brown accused of 'fiddling figures' The warlord lifted his fist three times in salute and shouted in his own language "Allah is great" as he was led to cells to start his sentence. He was convicted on Monday in a landmark case in which the court heard evidence of summary execution, the slaughter of 10 or 11 men in a minibus and an old man imprisoned in a metal box and whipped with a bicycle cable. Zardad and his men also kept a "human dog" to savage victims. Zardad, 41, of Gleneagles Road, Streatham, south London, had denied conspiracy to torture and take hostages between 1992 and 1996. Although based in the Sarobi area, outside Kabul, Zardad and his men also committed atrocities in other bases, said the judge. "I find you were personally involved in acts of torture and hostage taking. You were a powerful personality. These acts could only have taken place with your encouragement and approval. They could have been prevented. The fact that you personally participated in, or stood by and observed these acts without demur, can only have further encouraged the men under your command and shown them you approved of their acts. "You were not, I accept, personally present at every incident, but I hold you criminally responsible for them as they were committed by men under your close command and control in circumstances where you had in effect authorised them to act in this way. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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