The Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations held hearings in May 1987 to examine the situation in Afghanistan and to focus national and international attention on the plight of the Afghan people. Since the Soviet invasion in December 1979. Afghanistan has had one of the most egregious human rights records in the world. It is a country ravaged by war. country in a state of domestic upheaval. Onethird of its population of 16 million have fled their homeland to Pakistan. Iran. and other countries. making Afghans the largest group of refugees in the world. Up to 2 million Afghans are trying to survive in the throes of a civil war. and an estimated 1 million have been killed since the Soviet invasion. Today. in this resolution.
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