KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: At least 10,000 people packed into a downtown park Monday cheered the first public hanging since the U.S. backed rebel resistance ousted the Communist government in April.
The new Islamic government said the hangings of three men, none of them more than 25 years old, showed its will to rid the Capital of the murder, extortion and robbery that has wracked the Capital since the rebel leadership took power.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 18, 1992
