OSLO, Norway -- Afghan rebels Monday told a hearing on the Soviet invasion of their homeland of scores of deaths that occurred as Afghans fled to neighboring Pakistan while others died at the hands of Russian soldiers.
One defector, Abdur Rahim, 33, told the opening session of the hearing that Afghan children between the ages of 10 and 15 were being sent forcibly to the Soviet Union to undergo political indoctrination.
'The Soviet Union would like to see a new generation in Afghanistan which is susceptible to imperialist Soviet propaganda,' said Rahim, 33, an Afghan engineer who joined the Moslem forces fighting the Marxist regime in Kabul.
Rahim said he had joined the resistance movement after he saw a Soviet tank unit -- in an act of retribution -- force some 50 Afghan women into a river where they drowned, many of them clutching small children in their arms.
He also claimed the Soviet army receives assistance from several allies in its attempt to crush resistance in the nation of 15.9 million people. He said large numbers of Cubans had been killed in battle and a Vietnamese unit was guarding Kabul airport.
Bulgarian troops are guarding Afghanistan's oil and gas deposits against guerilla attacks, he said.
Another rebel, Nazir Ahmad Farouqi said Soviet soldiers blew up 70 percent of the houses in a village in the Logan region after the inhabitants had been driven away by a helicopter attack in mid-January.
Farouqi said many villagers died while fleeing to neighboring Pakistan and large numbers suffered severe frostbite as a result of extended exposure to the bitterly cold weather.
'Many villagers had to have their hands or feet amputated because of the injuries,' said Gilles Albanel, a French physician who was in the area at the time.
Nearly 3 million Afghans have fled their country since the Soviets invaded in December 1979. The State Department estimated Soviet troop strength in Afghanistan had increased to 100,000 by the end of July 1982.
The International Afghanistan Hearing, sponsored by all parties in the Norwegian parliament, will last until March 16. It has been organized as an effort to gain a better understanding of the internal military situation in Afghanistan and the behavior of the occupying Soviet forces.
A panel of international experts will hear evidence and witness reports from both Afghan and Western specialists with first-hand knowledge of the present situation.
Representatives of the Kabul regime have been invited but have declined to appear, according to the organizing committee.