Human Rights Abuses Rife, Watch Group Says
From Times Wire Reports
Human Rights Watch sharply criticized the United States and other foreign power-brokers in Afghanistan for failing to stem rights abuses in the country, which it says could derail elections scheduled for June.
Violence, intimidation and attacks on women and girls were discouraging political participation, the group said. Serious abuses were being committed by gunmen and warlords propelled to power when the U.S.-led coalition partners ousted the Taliban in 2001, the group said.
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