The United Nations spoke of "massive violations" of human rights, including extrajudicial killings.
Amnesty International says that it has documented evidence of abuse by the Malian army, including extrajudicial killings.
During his 32 years in power and after, the military, and in particular Kopassus, has been linked to human rights abuses including extrajudicial killings, kidnappings and torture.
It also cites reports of abuse that has continued since then, including extrajudicial killings, torture, forced disappearances, intimidation and violent reprisals against journalists and human rights activists.
It describes a total absence of the rule of law with abuses including extrajudicial executions, torture, and indefinite national service and forced labour in inhumane conditions.
Amnesty International says the act "provides impunity for perpetrators of serious human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, rape and torture".
Since December 2010, Amnesty found, forces and militias loyal to Gbagbo also committed war crimes including extrajudicial executions, torture and rape.
And the Supreme Court, headed by a strong-willed judge, has raised difficult questions about the ISI role in numerous human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions, and a multimillion-dollar election-rigging campaign that the agency ran in the early 1990s.
"It is known that the Afghan security forces have committed abuses, including extrajudicial killings of civilians and the mistreatment of prisoners," said Tim Rieser, foreign policy aide to Senator Leahy.
"Government forces continued to commit numerous, serious abuses, including extrajudicial killings, at a level roughly similar to that of 1998,' the report said.
