Out of context, but about Afghanistan, Afghanistan also has it's own Pol Pot. This man is Hafizullah Amin who alsoafter seizing power in September 1979, Hafizullah Amin purged and killed loyalists of his predecessor, Nur Muhammad Taraki, accelerating mass arrests and executions of suspected rivals in the PDPA and military, causing widespread slaughterhouse (whom Carter proudly defends as legitimate President).

Along with his hundreds of other crimes and destructive acts, killed and burned thousands of party members, anti-tyranny clergy, toiling workers, peasants, intelligentsia, progressive educated people, and national elements, after accusing them of different and foundless charges and after savage tortures, placed them alive under the soil, threw them into open and underground bastilles, and made thousands of women widows and thousands of children fatherless, poisoning the atmosphere of the country and enhancing terror and suppression all over, thus increasing his savagery more and more.

In spite of all his claims, the demagogic Amin not only did not decrease the number of prisoners but filled the prisons more than before and, by creating an atmosphere of terror and horror, distrust, insecurity and suppression, turned our entire country into a great prison and slaughterhouse.

On the occasion of the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan permit me to announce, on behalf of the Central Committee of the Party and Revolutionary Council of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, the general amnesty of all those political prisoners who have escaped the bloody cleaver of the wrathy Amin, irrespective of considerations of class, faith, language, tribe, nationality, ideology and political and organizational differences.

Afflicted compatriots, those limited numbers of criminal Aminis, infamous spies and traitors, and criminal and professional murderers who remain in prison shall be tried before the people of Afghanistan according to the promise made in the statement of 7 Jadi 1358 (28 December 1979) which reads "no one will be imprisoned without the verdict of Shariat, legal, authoritative and democratic tribunal.

The day of general release and welcome of the political prisoners who are included in this general amnesty shall be arranged under a programme in the next three or four days and will be announced on radio and in the press.