The World - News from Feb. 27, 1986
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Soviet troops in Afghanistan killed about 35,000 civilians last year in a campaign of “systematic brutality” that included bombing villages and planting explosives in children’s toys, a report prepared for the U.N. Human Rights Commission said. The author was Australian law professor Felix Ermacora, who said his findings are based on testimony from Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
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