The US has failed to investigate and prosecute "numerous" cases of abuse and killings of Afghan detainees implicating US military and CIA personnel, a rights group said on Thursday.
"No one should be above the law in Afghanistan," Sam Zarifi, of Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
"The United States and its allies have promised to reform the rule of law and the justice system in Afghanistan, but until the US is willing to provide accountability for its own forces, these pledges are not credible," he said.
HRW said the US military had not "adequately investigated numerous cases of abuse implicating military personnel, including several killings of detainees in Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003."
"Nor has the military sought to prosecute senior officers on the grounds of command responsibility for failing to stop abuses that they knew or should have known were occurring," HRW said.
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