It remains difficult to independently verify reports of executions and purges in the secretive North.
He also notes leftwing support for the Khmer Rouge and a tendency to dismiss reports of executions as CIA fabrications.
Mr. Davutoglu's comments came as the United Nations voiced concerns on Friday about reports of executions and torture of civilians, including children.
He suggested that some of the reports of executions by the Northern Alliance in the Kabul area were manufactured, and he noted that the alliance would have little reason to rampage in its traditional strongholds in the north.
There are also reports of executions, and fears for the city's world-famous archaeological treasures.
Reports of execution-style killings, mass graves, and torture in eastern Ukraine have been grossly "misreported" and possibly "exaggerated," according to a new report by Amnesty International.
North Korea is excluded from the totals due to difficulty in independently verifying reports of executions in the secretive country.
From June 2005 to date, the Boroumand Foundation has collected more than 4,800 reports of executions, mostly from official and semi-official sources.
Conversion by Muslims to another religion (apostasy) carries the death penalty, although there have been no confirmed reports of executions for apostasy in recent years.
We do, on the other hand, have reports of executions for activities against the Workers Partyy; some reports of executions for watching banned South Korean soap operas usually in connection with other offenses, like smuggling such video material across the border from South Korea.
We do, on the other hand, have reports of executions for activities against the Workers Partyy – some reports of executions for watching banned South Korean soap operas usually in connection with other offenses, like smuggling such video material across the border from South Korea.
