What is striking about the history of torture in Afghanistan is that no matter which regime is in power – the communists, the mujahedin, the Taliban and now Hamid Karzai’s western-supported government – the methods remain the same. From the 1980s to the present day, electrocution and beating have been the principal weapons used against those the state deems dangerous or undesirable.
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