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Afghanistan
Practice Relating to Rule 129. The Act of Displacement
Section A. Forced displacement
VI. Other National Practice
In 1997, in a letter to the UN Secretary-General and President of the UN Security Council, Afghanistan stated: “The heinous policy of coercive eviction and mass deportation of the civilian population … is a crime against humanity.” 
Afghanistan, Identical letters dated 19 January 1997 to the UN Secretary-General and the President of the UN Security Council, UN Doc. S/1997/54, 21 January 1997, Annex, p. 2.