Friday, July 18, 2008

More and more civilians are getting killed by foreign forces in Afghanistan

“American air strikes alone have killed dozens of Afghan civilians, perhaps close to one hundred, in less than two weeks, as the fighting in the country intensifies”.

David Walsh is writing an article about the death of civilians for the WSWS: “US continues its killing of Afghan civilians”.
http://www.wsws.org:80/articles/2008/jul2008/afgh-j18.shtml

In his report he also argues: “The US military initially dismissed claims that the air strike [in Deh Bala] resulted in civilian deaths” and this “brutal comments express the outlook of colonial occupiers, indifferent to the fate of the natives.”

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Again civilian casualties in Nangarhar

A US air strike in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, July 6, killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says. The eight other people who died were “between the ages of 14 and 18”.

The BBC reports:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7501538.stm