UN suppressed report on Afghan rights violations: report‎

GENEVA — The United Nations buried a report into rights violations in Afghanistan between 1978 and 2001 that accused Soviets, Islamists and US forces of "atrocities", a Swiss newspaper said on Saturday.

A UN report "on crimes committed in Afghanistan between April 1978 and December 2001 was deliberately suppressed by the United Nations for political reasons", Le Temps said after obtaining a copy of the 300-page document

One of the report's three authors, American Barnett Rubin, said that the UN must have decided not to publish it "at the request of (Afghan President Hamid) Karzai because it mentioned people still in the Afghan government", the report said. .... -- UN suppressed report on Afghan rights violations: report‎