KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan hailed Tuesday's British court decision to jail a former Afghan commander for 20 years for torture and said it was considering forming a body to enable prosecution of anyone found guilty of war crimes.
The court passed sentence on Farayadi Sarwar Zardad one day after finding him guilty of torturing and terrorising innocent civilians in Afghanistan over a four-year period in the 1990s. Prosecutors said it was the first case of its kind in the world.
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