Officials who sanctioned violation of human rights should be punished

Transitional Justice Coordination Group (TJCG) said the greatest human rights crimes are committed by those who are in higher positions of the government.

Transitional Justice Coordination Group urged the national unity government to punish those officials who violates the human rights.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Tuesday that accused Afghan high-ranking officials allowing extrajudicial killings and brutal practices to flourish after fall of Taliban.

“Top Afghan officials have presided over murders, abduction, and other abuses with the tacit backing of their government and its western allies.” HRW said in the report.

“The rise of abusive political and criminal networks was not inevitable,” the report said. “Short-term concerns for maintaining a bulwark against the Taliban have undermined aspirations for long-term good governance and respect for human rights in Afghanistan.”

But the Transitional Justice Coordination Group in reaction to the HRW report said that the report just focused on eight commanders and officials across Afghanistan that some of them counted among the country’s most powerful men, and key allies for foreign troops. Some are accused of personally inflicting violence, others of having responsibility for militias or government forces that committed the crimes.

TJCG claimed that the greatest Human Rights crimes are committed by the high-ranking officials because they know there would be no prosecution.

TJCG called on HRW to release its new report under the name of “Drawing dispute”; a report that reveals all of those who violated human rights and works in government’s body.

The TJC group demanded the abolition of the exemption culture in Afghanistan and warned that Afghanistan would be a safe haven for human rights violators if the government does not wipe out this phenomenon.