Table of Contents:
  • Three decades of human rights abuses in Afghanistan: an overview / Patricia Gossman
  • The Soviet Union explains its intervention in Afghanistan / Boris Gromov
  • The Afghan government reacts to US President Jimmy Carter's state of the union address / The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
  • A report to the United Nations on the Soviet atrocities in Afghanistan / Felix Ermacora
  • A United Nations resolution on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan / United Nations
  • The rise and fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan / Kim Masters Evans
  • Genocide was an accepted Soviet anti-guerilla tactic / Claude Malhuret
  • Soviet land mines endangered children but did not specifically target them / Rae McGrath
  • Soviets used chemical weapons against Afghan mujahideen and civilians / Stuart J.D. Schwartzstein
  • The Soviet occupiers derailed Afghanistan's justice systems / Michael Barry, Omar Babrakzai, and Ghafoor Yussofzai
  • Afghanistan needed humanitarian aid as well as military support to halt genocide / Edward Girardet
  • The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a key factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union / Rafael Reuveny and Aseem Prakash
  • US involvement in Afghanistan yielded numerous unforeseen consequences / David Wildman and Phyllis Bennis
  • Life for Afghans in a war zone / Niyaz Turdi as told to Alex Klaits and Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits
  • Mother of three reflects on work in Afghanistan / Jan Cartwright
  • Afghanistan war: lessons from the Soviet war / Edward Girardet
  • Afghanistan's last two Jews standing / Steven Gutkin
  • The systemic abuse of women in post-Taliban Afghanistan / Human Rights Watch.