international community must: Afghanistan's chief justice war criminals should be could soon, make information from the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), are a suspected war criminal head of the Supreme Court in Afghanistan.
The STP therefore called Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle urgently to prevent the candidacy Sayyaf for the Supreme Court.
thousands of people killed
Sayyaf's worst crimes its leading role in the expulsion and murder of the Shiite population in the Kabul district of Afshar was in February 1993. At that time, thousands killed by humans. Hundreds of survivors, he was kidnapped and murdered in his residence Paghman or tortured to death. wanted to show as an eyewitness in 2004 the mass graves of international journalists, the powerful warlord responsible for its execution, although at that time capital punishment was officially suspended.
The human rights organization warned that Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf, the Afghan President Hamid Karzai is to be proposed as a candidate for the leadership of the nine-member court.
Parliament is expected to follow this proposal , in part because the influential former parliamentary speaker Yunus Qanooni the candidacy of the presumed War criminal will support.
In return Qanooni get back his old office spokesman, the STP learned from well informed sources in Kabul. It is certain that the governing body of the court Sayyaf will then appoint the supreme judge.
"This mass murderer may be in any case the supreme guardian of the law in Afghanistan," said the speaker of the Afghanistan-STP, Tillmann Schmalzried. "Having been the Parliament is controlled by warlords as the most important democratic institution, is now the legal system at risk. This threatens the building of a democratic Afghanistan to fail utterly."
The Pashtun Wahhabi Sayyaf was the only under the warlords of the Northern Alliance, the alliance of militia leaders against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Wahhabis are highly conservative Muslims, who are based in Saudi Arabia. As such was not the Aubildung Sayyaf, the Afghan fighters during the resistance against the Soviet Union. So he became a trainer and partner Osama bin Laden and the Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.
Karzai secured in 2002, Sayyaf's support by one of his followers took to the top of the Supreme Court. This summoned about 900 Islamic legal scholars who reject the constitution adopted in 2004, also to the provincial courts.
of the Max-Planck-Institute for International Public Law, which offers courses for Afghan judges conducting had to experience how the students articulated openly their opposition to the Constitution.
Society for Threatened Peoples Association (STP)
