1970s Afghan death lists end uncertainty for some --- The lists were collected after Dutch authorities questioned Amanullah Osman, former head of interrogation for the Afghan intelligence agency in the 1970s, starting in 2010 and until his death two years later. --- Osman, who sought asylum in the Netherlands in 1993, made no secret of his past, informing immigration authorities that his office had tortured people and that he had signed documents involving people bound for execution. --- In 2000, a book titled "The Transfer Orders" was published in Afghanistan, detailing Afghan internal security records from the late 1970s and showing prisoner movements between detention centers. Subsequently, Dutch police obtained 27 original transfer orders signed by Osman that pointed to his guilt. -- Dutch police subsequently tracked down several witnesses, including a 93-year-old woman in Hamburg, Germany, with a 154-page list in the Dari language of people executed in 1978 and 1979. It was in chronological and alphabetic order, complete with their fathers' names, their professions, places of residence and charges against them. - More, latimes