Human rights groups renewed calls on Tuesday for the release of a report from Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission on war crimes committed over three decades in the country.
At a conference in Kabul, organisers and activists said the only reason the report as being buried was because those who hold political, judicial and financial power are named in the report as perpetrators of major human rights violation .
"Whenever this report is released it will bring problems between the government and the people," civil society activist Ajmal Balochzada said.
The conference "Strengthening the role of vulnerable groups and victims of peace process" also heard from activists condemning the pressure President Hamid Karzai himself has put on the AIHRC not to release the report instead of doing something about the actual injustices it details.
"The government doesn't have any plan to solve the problems of vulnerable groups or to punish the perpetrators of these violations," said Mohammad Naeem Nazari, head of a human rights group.
Insecurity and massive corruption were also cited as causes for the failure of justice and previous meetings on the matter have been little more than symbolic.
"There was no justice coming from the [previous] conferences which have been held to solve the problem of the vulnerable in the face of violence in the country. After this such conferences should set up with civil society and human rights organisations," chief executive of Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Khodadad Basharat said.