Title

Soviet Violations of the Helsinki Accords in Afghanistan

Wednesday, December 04, 1985
10:00am
2167 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC
United States
Members: 
Name: 
Hon. Alfonse M. D'Amato
Title Text: 
Chairman
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Hon. Steny H. Hoyer
Title Text: 
Co-Chairman
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Hon. Dennis DeConcini
Title Text: 
Commissioner
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Hon. Gordon J. Humphrey
Title Text: 
Commissioner
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Hon. Christopher H. Smith
Title Text: 
Commissioner
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Name: 
Hon. Don Ritter
Title Text: 
Commissioner
Body: 
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Witnesses: 
Name: 
Mykola Movchan
Title: 
Former Soviet Army Sergeant
Name: 
Hamed
Title: 
Member
Body: 
National Islamic Front of Afghanistan
Name: 
Tor
Title: 
Member
Body: 
National Islamic Front of Afghanistan
Name: 
Jan Goodwin
Title: 
Executive Editor
Body: 
Ladies' Home Journal
Name: 
Kurt Lobek
Title: 
Film Journalist
Name: 
Ambassador Gerald B. Helman
Title: 
Deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Body: 
Department of State
Name: 
Ambassador Richard Schifter
Title: 
Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
Body: 
Department of State

The Helsinki Commission held its second hearing on Soviet aggression in Afghanistan six years after Soviet invasion in 1979. The witnesses shed light on the deliberate destruction of the people, culture, and way of life in Afghanistan for the Commissioners present, and considered ways to move forward.

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