Raziq admits involvement in extrajudicial killings

Monitoring Desk

KANDAHAR: Admitting involvement in extrajudicial killings, the police chief of Kandahar province, General Abdul Raziq, has said sweets are not distributed among rivals in war.

Different human rights organizations including the UN Committee against Torture alleged that Kandahar police was responsible for enforced disappearances, mass arbitrary detention and extrajudicial killings during counter-insurgency operations.

“The Committee is particularly concerned at the numerous and credible allegations indicating General Abdul Raziq, ANP Commander in Kandahar, as being widely suspected of complicity, if not of personal implication, in severe human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings and settlement of secret detention centres,” the committee said in a report released in mid-last year.

Talking to journalists here on Wednesday General said they kill the Taliban because no one distributes sweets in the war. “A soldier can carry four magazines and a Kalashnikov, not a court or any other judicial organ,” he said. He, however, rejected the allegations that he was running personal jails, saying the prisoners were being kept only in the government run jails.

He accused unnamed government officials of creating insecurity and eliminating some political figures.

The Kandahar police chief said they had picked arms against the country sellers, not for getting power.