Civilian casualties in Shindand again

A case study about Shindand in Herat and civilian casualties in the Afghanistan War.

Some 1,600 displaced after US air raids in Shindand in Herat province (IRIN reports: 3 May 2007)
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=71937

Shinwar
About the killing of 19 civilians in the Shinwar Massacre in Nangarhar.

U.S. Apologizes to Families for Killing Afghan Civilians (New York Times; May 8, 2007)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/world/asia/09afghancnd.html

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.”

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