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Faryadi Sarwar Zardad (also known as Zardad Khan and Commander Zardad) is a former Afghan warlord. In 2005 he was convicted in the United Kingdom where he was living, for conspiring to take hostages and conspiring to torture during the 1990s in Afghanistan. ==War crimes== Born circa 1963, Faryadi Sarwar Zardad is Pashtun and a former Mujahideen leader who fought during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He ran a Sarobi checkpoint, blocking the major route heading from Jalalabad into Kabul, that commonly robbed, abducted and killed travellers between 31 December 1991 to 30 September 1996. 〔 〕 A widely publicised allegation regarding Zardad was that one of his militia, Abdullah Shah, viciously bit prisoners and had even eaten at least one victim's testicles. 〔 〕〔 〕 Shah was described as a "human dog" and kept in a cave with a chain around his neck by Zardad, and brought out to intimidate captured travellers.〔Jury, Louise (Revealed at last: art film of an Afghan warlord's 'human dog' ) London:''The Independent'' 1 October 2005〕 Shah was reportedly executed by the Afghan government in 2002.〔 In 1998, Zardad fled to Britain using a false passport to avoid persecution under the ruling Taliban, and requested asylum. He was the subject of an exposé on a BBC television programme, ''Newsnight'', first broadcast on 26 July 2000.〔 〕 Zardad's presence in London had been discussed with a BBC reporter, John Simpson, by the Taliban's Foreign Minister in Kabul, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, during an interview in 1999.〔 The minister had retorted to a question that "Well, you British are sheltering the criminal Commander Zardad". The BBC eventually tracked Zardad down after nearly a year, and found him living in Mitcham, Surrey.〔 〕 He was interviewed by Simpson for the programme, in which Zardad claimed to have been based in Kabul and had only visited Sarobi as an adviser to the local commanders. After the BBC report, Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) launched an international campaign〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Take action: Join us to urge the UK government to prosecute Zardad and other Afghan criminals who are living in the UK )〕 urging the British government to prosecute Zardad. They issued a statement in many languages and circulated it through the Internet.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Zardad and Gulbaddin Hekmatyar )〕 RAWA also issued a report entitled "Some reports of crimes committed by Zardad in Afghanistan", which were used in his prosecution.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Some reports of crimes committed by Zardad in Afghanistan )〕 Zardad was briefly arrested on 10 May 2003 by officers of the Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch and bailed only to be re-arrested on 14 July 2003, by which time he was living in Streatham had been running a pizza parlour in Bexleyheath for three years.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Faryadi Sarwar Zardad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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