Afghans Call For Public Executions

From The Australian:

AFGHANS, encouraged by President Hamid Karzai's decision to execute seven convicted criminals this month, are calling for a return to Taliban-era public executions to deal with a surge in crime.

Rights groups and some of the governments funding post-Taliban Afghanistan recoiled at the executions, the first batch in a year, saying shortcomings in the notoriously inefficient and corrupt judicial system cast doubt on the legitimacy of trials

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