Human Rights Watch is calling upon western donor states to press Afghanistan’s new government to prosecute officials and commanders who have long been accused of serious human rights abuses. Regarding the situation in Afghanistan, Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch is quoted as saying “[t]he previous Afghan government and the United States enabled powerful and abusive individuals and their forces to commit atrocities for too long without being held to account.” In light of Afghanistan’s new president, Ashraf Ghani, expected visit to Washington later this month, Human Rights Watch has published “Today We Shall All Die: Afghanistan’s Strongmen and the Legacy of Impunity”, a report, based upon 125 interviews, which profiles eight “strongmen” with ties to police, intelligence and militia forces implicated in serious abuses.