Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2010
Jason Ditz
16th February, 2010
Usually when militaries change their official story about killing civilians it is designed to explain away innocent deaths as an accident. Today, however, NATO took the exact opposite approach with Sunday’s Marjah killings, revising their story to insist the killings were not an equipment error, but were part of a deliberate US targeting of a house full of civilians.
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Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
27th September, 2009
A United Nations report has noted that a total of 1,500 civilians have lost their lives in insurgency-hit Afghanistan from the beginning of the year to August.
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Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2009
Unborn Baby Shot in the Womb Definitely Not a Militant
10th April, 2009
The Khost Province killings yesterday have sparked a growing level of outrage at the behavior of US forces across Afghanistan, and have led Afghan President Hamid Karzai to demand once again that foreign forces adhere to their previous agreement to coordinate planned raids with the national government, and base them on accurate information.
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Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2008
Daily Times
UNITED NATIONS: Russia, at odds with the United States over Georgia, tried unsuccessfully to push the UN Security Council on Tuesday to condemn US-led air strikes in Afghanistan that killed dozens of civilians.
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Posted by seumasach on August 26, 2008
25. August 2008
By Sardar Ahmad, AFP
The Afghan cabinet demanded Monday a renegotiation of agreements regulating the presence of international troops in Afghanistan after more than 90 civilians were killed in US-led air strikes.
The cabinet said the review should focus on the “authorities and responsibilities” of international troops and demand a halt to air strikes on civilians, illegal detentions and unilateral house searches, a statement said.
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Posted by seumasach on August 25, 2008
Amir Shah AP
25th August, 2008
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Two Afghan army officers have been sacked after a joint Afghan-coalition operation in the west of the country that President Hamid Karzai said killed at least 89 civilians.
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Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2008
22nd August, 2008
An airstrike by the US-led forces in western Afghanistan has killed 76 civilians including women and children.
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