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Northern Alliance History Less Than Laudable.(WORLD WAR ON TERRORISM)
Byline: SEAN HIGGINS
Human rights activists accuse the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance of brutal crimes, including robbery, murder, torture and rape, and warn that Afghans may reject a postwar government that gives it a prominent role.
"So many of those now involved in what has come to be called the Northern Alliance have the blood of our beloved people on their hands, as of course do the Taliban," said Tahmeena Faryal, spokeswoman for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
Faryal -- a pseudonym -- spoke to a House Committee on International Relations panel Wednesday. She testified by videophone from a secret location, fearful of having her identity exposed to the ruthless Taliban regime.
"Currently RAWA and many other Afghans fear that the Northern Alliance groups lie in ambush . . . working to gain Western backing to establish their second emirate," she said. She said they have offered no " credible evidence suggesting they would not repeat their prior atrocities."
Those fears are reasonable, according to outside human rights groups.
"During their rule in Kabul from 1992-96, the Northern Alliance was responsible for numerous human rights abuses against Afghan civilians. Violations were widespread and ...
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