Abdul Rashid Dostum, has refused to appear in court on charges he and his men brutally assaulted a rival and his relatives last month.

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Kamgar's godfather: General Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Uzbek warlord who controlled northern Afghanistan despite Taliban inroads in the 1990s and is the leader of an ethnic Uzbek party.

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Macroyan was largely under the control of a fourth group, an Uzbek militia called Junbish-e-Milli, led by a warlord of exceptional brutality named Abdul Rashid Dostum, who had fought for the Soviets.

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