The World - News from Aug. 11, 1989
President Sibghatullah Mojaddidi of the Afghan rebels’ self-proclaimed government-in-exile branded his own foreign minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a “killer” of innocent Afghans and other guerrillas. Mojaddidi said his regime would have a better chance of survival without Hekmatyar, leader of the powerful Hezb-i-Islami resistance group. “He considers himself the hero of the jihad (holy war), but in fact . . . he has killed hundreds of (guerrillas) inside Afghanistan and hundreds of innocent people inside Afghanistan,” Mojaddidi said in an interview.
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