Wednesday 30 December 2009

'US Forces Massacred Schoolboys' - Afghan Police


The US led massacres are more regular this month. Further link here

3 comments:

  1. Locals said that some victims were handcuffed before being killed.
    Western military sources said that the dead were all part of an Afghan 'terrorist cell' responsible for manufacturing improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have 'claimed the lives of countless soldiers and civilians'. The latest civilian casualties led to protests in Kabul and Jalalabad, with children as young as 10 chanting “Death to America” and demanding that foreign forces should leave Afghanistan at once. President Karzai himself sent a team of investigators to Narang district, in eastern Kunar province, after reports of a massacre first surfaced on Monday.
    “The delegation concluded that a unit of international forces descended from a plane Sunday night into Ghazi Khan village in Narang district of the eastern province of Kunar and took ten people from three homes, eight of them school students in grades six, nine and ten, one of them a guest, the rest from the same family, and shot them dead,” a statement on President Karzai’s own website said.
    Assadullah Wafa, who led the investigation, said that US soldiers flew to Kunar from Kabul, suggesting that they were part of a special forces unit.

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  2. Another NATO massacre (one a day it seems) on Thursday:
    http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/583788/cs/1/?

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  3. It is now established that in early December a NATO air strike killed thirteen civilians in Laghman province. One account also documents a deadly raid by American special forces there. "According to witnesses, US troops entered a number of houses near the provincial capital, Mehtar Lam, in an overnight operation. The victims included Mohammed Ismail, whose 10-year-old son, Rafiullah, described what happened: 'When the soldiers came to our house, my father asked them, "Who are you?" Then they shot him in the head and told us, "Be quiet and tell us where the weapons are." The chairman of the Laghman provincial council presciently commented on the killings that "When the commander in Kabul asked Obama for the extra troops, he knew the USA would end up with one achievement, and that is more civilian casualties."
    On the same day that the above-cited UN report was made public an air attack by U.S.-led warplanes killed four Afghans in the northern province of Baghlan. According to one report "A father and his three sons were reportedly among the [fatalities]. The raid also wounded eight others."
    A member of parliament from a neighboring province, Haji Farid, said after the aerial onslaught that "Every time an American soldier gets killed, they bomb an entire village."
    The following day a NATO missile strike killed seven Afghan civilians in Helmand province. According to the New York Times, "Neither NATO forces nor the Helmand governor’s office gave a definitive number of dead, but reports from local people said that five to seven civilians had been killed, including three children." Later a spokesman for the governor of the province confirmed that seven civilians had been slain and another wounded.
    Far more atrocious news broke the same day, December 30, when, according to the next day's edition of The Times of London, "American-led troops were accused...of dragging innocent children from their beds and shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead" in Kunar province near the Pakistani border.

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