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 | | According to U.S. government officials, in November 1990 Peter Tomsen wrote to both the AIG and the commanders' shura condemning the incidents and calling on all parties to adhere to the Geneva Conventions. |
 | | According to Richard MacKenzie, an American journalist who was in the area at the time, and to other reports, five Jamiat-e Islami members were killed in the ambush, while some 25 who were taken into custody by the Hezb-e Islami forces, led by commander Sayyed Jamal, were summarily executed afterwards. |
 | | According to Asia Watch sources in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the butterfly mines have not been dropped since the Soviet withdrawal;136 however, of the thousands that were, most are still active because the PFM-1, which was more widely used, has no built-in self-destruct mechanism. |
| www.hrw.org /reports/1991/afghanistan/3AFGHAN.htm (12139 words) |
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