AfghanWarlord Threatens Boston-Area Experts on Afghanistan with Legal Action

http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=daoud_abedi__1

--Human Rights Watch, "Blood-Stained Hands":
"As shown in this report, Hezb-e Islami forces committed grave violations of international humanitarian law by intentionally targeting civilians and civilian areas for attack, or indiscriminately attacking areas in Kabulwithout distinguishing between civilian areas and military targets. Accounts and information presented in sections III (A) and III (B) show regular and repeated artillery strikes on civilian areas. Accounts and information in those sections also show that Hezb-e Islami regularly and repeatedly fired rockets into Kabul. As shown in those sections, Hezb-e Islami forces repeatedly used artillery and rockets in a manner suggesting that they were either intentionally targeting civilian sites, failing to aim at military objectives (with respect to artillery guns), or treating the whole city as one unified military target-any and all of which can amount to war crimes."

--UN Dispatch, "The Bloody Hands of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar"
"Hekmatyar s fighters killed tens of thousands by deliberately shelling Kabul. They kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed countless civilians in ways so gruesome that many Afghans, especially Kabul residents, flinch at the mention of Hekmatyar s name to this day."

http://www.undispatch.com/node/9711

--Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC, "Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Return to the Afghan Insurgency"
http://www.jamestown.org/programs/gta/single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=4951&tx_ttnews[backPid]=167&no_cache=1


--Institute for the Study of War (Washington DC), "Hizb-i-Islami"

http://www.understandingwar.org/themenode/hezb-e-islami-gulbuddin-hig

--Ottawa Citizen, "Blame the torturers": "But soon after his arrival, Ahmed El-Maati joined the army of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a character reviled as the most vicious of the jihadis. Mr.vHekmatyar wantonly killed innocent civilians, skinned his prisoners alive and his soldiers threw acid in the face of any Afghan women who dared not wear the burqa."
http://www2.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6396a81d-1d05-4815-82d2-527ced404138&p=2


--Voice of America News, "US Designates Gulbuddin Hekmatyar a 'Global Terrorist"
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-a-2003-02-20-9-US-66844527.html?moddate=2003-02-20

--Registan.net, (Central Asian blog) "Romancing Hekmatyar (and other related monsters)"
http://www.registan.net/index.php/2010/03/11/romancing-hekmatyar-and-other-related-monsters/


--Human Rights Watch: "Afghanistan: Repeal Amnesty Law"
"Afghans have been losing hope in their government because so many alleged war criminals and human rights abusers remain in positions of power," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The amnesty law was passed to protect these people from prosecution, sending a message to Afghans that not only are these rights abusers here to stay, but more might soon be welcomed in."

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/03/10/afghanistan-repeal-amnesty-law