In a bid to provide justice and ensure remedies to the victims of the human rights abuses in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, the country's President, Hamid Karzai, launched an action plan on Sunday.

The project tilted Action Plan on Peace, Reconciliation and Justice in Afghanistan would be carried out in the next three years until the end of 2008.

The ambitious plan stresses for the five key elements which includes acknowledgment of the suffering of the Afghan people, strengthening state institutions, truth-seeking, promoting reconciliation and establishing of effective accountability mechanism.

We cannot ensure justice, we cannot defend our country unless we get knowledge and unless we get united, President Karzai emphasized in his speech at a function organized on the occasion of the 58th Universal Declaration of the Human Rights.

More than one million Afghans had been killed and millions of others were forced to leave their country due to foreign invasion and civil war in Afghanistan since 1979.

Afghans are still killed by terrorists or by NATO bombardments in the war against terrorists. This should be stopped as Afghans deserve to live in peace and tranquillity, the Afghan leader stressed.

To pay homage to those have been killed in the past two and half decades of war and civil strife, the President designated Dec. 10 as National Remembrance Day.

He also called on all Afghans to get united against terrorists and those who create problems on the way of Afghanistan's progress.

Source: Xinhua