Casting shadows : war crimes and crimes against humanity : 1978-2001 : documentation and analysis of major patterns of abuse in war in Afghanistan / the Afghanistan Justice Project.

Spiral bound.

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary: “Afghanistan has been at war since April 1978. During every phase of the conflict-the revolution of April 1978 that brought to power the factionalized Marxist-Leninist people’s democratic party of Afghanistan, its radical reform measures and brutal crackdown on the uprisings that followed ; the Soviet invasion of December 1979, occupation and counterinsurgency war, the Soviet withdrawal and the civil war ; the repressive rule of the Taliban, and finally the U.S.-led intervention that ended it-different armed factions, both Afghan and foreign, committed crimes against humanity and serious war crimes. These war crimes have included large-scale massacres, disappearances and summary executions of at least tens of thousands of Afghans, indiscriminate bombing and rocketing that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, torture, mass rape and other atrocities. In the twenty-seven years since the war began, there has been no serious effort, international or domestic, to account for these crimes…”—(p. 4, executive summary).