Abdul Majid Rouzi

General Abdul Majid Rozi was an Uzbek commander of Arab Descent during the Afghan Civil war. He was allied with the forces of General Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Majid Rozi
BornAfghanistan
AllegianceJunbish-e Milli-yi Islami-yi Afghanistan
Service/branchArmy, police
Years of service47 years
RankLieutenant General

In 1992 Rozi was in charge of the overall command of the forces of Junbish.[1] During the battle of Kabul, Majid Rozi was reportedly profiting from the looting of Kabul by his forces and the forces of General Dostum.[2]

General Majid Rozi, at the time in Baghdis Province was one of the commanders who sided with Abdul Malik when he defected to the Taliban in 1997. He proceeded to arrest Dostum's commanders as well as Ismail Khan who he handed over to the governor of Herat Mullah Abdul Razzaq Akhundzada.[3]

Rozi was also present during the transfer of Taliban prisoners to Sheberghan in which thousands were killed and suffocated in containers.[4]

On 3 February 2002, in the face of escalating conflict in Mazar-e Sharif, Majid Rozi lead a 600-person mixed security force for the city drawn from each of the 5 parties operating in the region, after a United Nations backed agreement.[5]

In 2012, he was an advisor to the Afghan Interior Ministry.[6]

References
  1. Afghanistan Justice Project. "Casting Shadows: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, 1978-2001." 2005. Accessed at: http://www.afghanistanjusticeproject.org/ [Accessed on 10 November 2009], pg 102
  2. Human Rights Watch. "Blood Stained Hands: Past atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity." 2005. Accessed at: www.hrw.org/reports/2005/afghanistan0605/afghanistan0605.pdf [Accessed on 22 November 2009],54
  3. Gutman, Roy. How we missed the story. Accessed at: https://books.google.com/books?id=A9eqvc-Ru3cC&pg=PA104 Page 104
  4. Gall, Carlotta (1 May 2002). "Study Hints at Mass Killing of the Taliban". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  5. "Paying for the Taliban's Crimes". Human Rights Watch. 9 April 2002.
  6. "Afghanistan war enters 12th year". NDTV.com. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
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