Today, the court in The Hague has sentenced a 76-year-old man from Kerkrade to twelve years in prison for war crimes in Afghanistan between 1983 and 1987. During that period, the man worked in the Pul-e-Charkhi prison where at the time of the civil war many opponents of the regime in Kabul were locked up as political prisoners under appalling conditions. It concerns in this case at least eighteen, but possibly dozens or hundreds of prisoners. Often the prisoners were awaiting their trial and were kept in a hopeless situation for years.
