The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1983 (6. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1983-01-01 / 1. szám

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AFGHANISTAN Soldiers Murdered in Hospital, Says General O oldiers have been murdered in Afgha­­^ ' nistan’s Soviet-supervised hospitals, according to Major-General Naik Mohammed Azizi, former head of the Kabul Military Me­dical School. The General, who fled to Pakistan recently, told the Press in interviews given in January that Afgahan soldiers „suspected of affilia­tions with the freedom fighters“ (the Muslim guerrillas fighting the Soviet occupation troops) were being killed by injections of poison ad­ministered in hospitals for the wounded. He mentioned the basement of a 400-bed hospital in Kabul as the scene of some of these „heinous crimes“. General Azizi, who is himself a doctor, said that 350 doctors were on the strength of the Army Medical Corps before the communists seized power in Afghanistan in 1978. The number had now fallen to about 100, many of whom had graduated after a training course shortened to four years. Most of the doctors had fled abroad or had been imprisoned or killed. Patients were un­able to obtain proper treatment. General Azizi reported that all Kabul’s hospitals were full of wounded soldiers, the overflow being put in tents. Military Hospital Number One, with 500 beds, was used solely for treating Soviet troops and other Russians. Other hospitals were grossly overcrowded, one with 400 beds now having 2,000 wounded or sick Afghans. The general also spoke about acute shortage of drugs and of blood for transfusions. Afghan soldiers were offered special leave or even early discharge if they gave blood. However, teachers and students were being threatened with severe penalties if they re­fused to do so. School pupils were being encouraged to sell their blood for the equi­valent of about 20 dollars a litre. General Azizi also reported that the KHAD, the Babrak Karmai regime’s Soviet-controlled intelligence organisation, had confiscated many houses and converted them into offices with prison cells. In Kabul alone, the KHAD now had offices in all the city’s 25 wards. Other senior Afghan officers to flee abroad recently include Brigadier Mohammed Nawaz, Brigadier Engineer Abdul Mannan and Co­lonel Mohammad Ayub Osmani, former staff officers in Kabul; and Brigadier Mohammad Sarwar Shinwari, formerly Chief of Opera­tions at Khwaja air-force base, Kabul. Soviet occupation troops terrorising people in Afghanistan. CALL FOR EVEN STRONGER PRESSURE ON INVADERS Sayed Ahmed Gailani, a member of the Presidential Board of the Islamic Alliance of Afghan Mujahidin, has urged countries and world organisations to exert even stronger pressure on the Soviet Government to withdraw its armed forces from Afghan­istan. Interviewed by the Chinese Xinhua news agency in Islamabad on January 23, he said that the Soviet authorities had long premedi­tated the control of Afghanistan as a step to gain access to warm water, but „they have miscalculated the courageous resistance put up by the Afghan people .. He added that he hoped the forthcoming non-aligned summit conference would „pro­duce a stronger resolution pressing for a Soviet pull-out from Afghanistan“. The Babrak Karmai regime should be excluded from the non-aligned movement as „it is merely a puppet of foreign occupation troops“. Gailani continued: „The Soviet Union is obviously faced with mounting difficulties and more defeats in Afghanistan. Though they (the Russians) have powerful troops equipped with all kinds of modern weapons, they cannot move out of the big cities without air cover. „When they occupy a village, they have to pull back to their barracks in the even­ing ... The morale of the Soviet troops is egging“. Gailani said that the Afghan guerrilla forces were increasing in strength and fight­ing experience. The Mujahidin of different factions were co-ordinating their fighting against the common enemy. „This people, endowed with the power of will and justice, can challenge a super-power“. In a Press interview in Islamabad on January 2, Professor Khalilullah Khalili, a former Afghan Minister of Information and Culture, said that „despite all the Soviet-Karmal troops and modern weapons, 8} per cent of the Afghan territory is still out of their control“. In Jakarta on December 20, Habib Chat­ty, Secretary General of the Islamic Con­ference Organisation, again demanded that the USSR withdraw its troops from Afgha­nistan. January - February, 1983 "Islamic Truth" Savagely Suppressed Draconian sentences have been imposed on two Soviet Muslims associated with the unautho­rised production and distribution of a 32-page booklet entitled ISLAMIC TRUTH. Rakhimov (first name unknown) was given seven years’ „strict regime" imprisonment in labour camps and Makhmudzhon Roziev four years of such punishment. Their trial, information about which was only recently smuggled out of the USSR, was held in September, 1982, in the Kirov regional „peo­ple’s court" in Tashkent, capital of Soviet Uzbe­kistan. They were found guilty of „engaging in illegal trade". Eleven other people were tried but their sentences are unknown. The trial resulted from (he arrest of A. Said­­kharikhodzayeva who had distributed the book­let in Tashkent after receiving conies from Roziev who, together with Eldas Mukhammedov, had printed them. Mukhammedov said at the trial that in 1980 and 1981 he had printed Islamic literature in Rakhimov’s home and in the home of a nurse, A. N. Cherevatenko. Rakhimov and Roziev have already served sentences for circulating religious literature. ISLAMIC TRUTH, the distribution of which has been savagely suppressed by the KGB, includes quotations from the Koran and from the work of three Uzbek poets, Saad, Bedil and Navai. Other Soviet Muslims arrested last year in­clude Mullah Said Karim Azamov and P. Dzha­­faroye. The mullah was arrested in Tashkent and charged with unlawfully teaching the Koran in school. He has been tried but his sentence is unknown. Dzhafaroye has been charged with distributing thousands of photocopies of Islamic literature. WOMEN SEIZED AS HOSTAGES The Soviet military authorities in Af­ghanistan were reported late in January to have arrested several Afghan women in Mazar-I-Sharif, a town near the border with the USSR. They were being held as hostages following an Afghan guerrilla group’s kidnapping of 15 Soviet civilians in broad daylight in the town’s bazaar. 3

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