The World - News from Aug. 6, 1989
A radical Afghan rebel leader acknowledged that his guerrillas had killed 11 rival moujahedeen fighters in an incident that threatens to unravel the resistance movement against the Soviet-backed Kabul government. But Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the Hizb-i-Islami rebel group, denied claims by the rival Jamaat-i-Islami party that 30 of its fighters were killed last month. The Jamaat said five of its men were massacred in an ambush as they were returning from a strategy meeting and that 25 were taken prisoner and killed the next day. Hekmatyar said his group is holding prisoner 30 survivors of the incident in Takhar province. He proposed a swap for Hizb-i-Islami guerrillas being held captive by Jamaat.
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