Wednesday 9 December 2009

Afghan Massacre Protesters Gunned Down


KABUL, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Afghan troops fired on protesters in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding a third, at a demonstration sparked by reports of civilian deaths in a NATO-led operation, a provincial official said.
NATO said no civilians had died in its raid in Laghman province, northeast of Kabul, saying its forces had killed seven 'militants' and arrested four.
The Afghan soldiers shot at a crowd of villagers protesting against the attack, which President Hamid Karzai's office said killed six civilians, including one woman.
"Three people were shot. One died on the spot, one died in hospital, one is in a coma," the acting head of Laghman's provincial council, Gulzar Sangarwal, said of the demonstrations.
Sangarwal said 13 civilians were killed in the pre-dawn raid by NATO-led forces in Armul village. Angry at the raid, the villagers took to the streets to march and chant slogans against the provincial governor, Karzai and foreign troops in Afghanistan, when Afghan troops opened fire.
The Nato spokesperson Captain Jane Campbell said no 'operational' reports confirmed civilian casualties. Of course this would be the perpetrators condemning themselves so it's hardly likely that there would ever be 'operational' reports of massacres by the 'operational' culprits.

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