Tuesday 12 January 2010

Nato Going For A Massacre a Day


The Kabul authorities have managed to secure a moratorium on air raids due to the carnage of civilians recently. But Nato/Isaf are making up for lost numbers by shooting civilians on a daily basis. Here's two massacres from the last 24 hours:


'The foreigners shot many people in the streets…….' Sound familiar? Link


Afghan villagers with bullet wounds were taken to a hospital in the volatile south of the country on Tuesday, and relatives said


Western troops fired on demonstrators protesting against an earlier raid and Koran desecration it is alleged. A NATO spokesman said troops were aware of demonstrations which had followed a raid in Garmsir, a town in southern Helmand province patrolled by U.S. Marines, but was not immediately able to comment on reports of firing at demonstrators. Ahmadullah, a doctor at the main hospital in Helmand's provincial capital Lashkar Gah, said 11 wounded men had been brought to the hospital from Garmsir, all of them with bullet wounds. A Reuters witness saw wounded men being brought to the hospital but was not able to count them.

Haji Jan Gul, who described himself as one of the demonstrators, said that his son had been killed in the melee. ''The foreign forces opened fire when protesters threw stones at them, he said. 10 people died and others were wounded," he said.

3 comments:

  1. The number of civilians killed in war-related violence in Afghanistan touched 2,412 last year the UN said today. They said most deaths attributed to pro-government forces were killed in air raids as well as search and seizure operations.
    "These often involved excessive use of force, destruction to property and cultural insensitivity, particularly towards women," is a direct quote.

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  2. Terry,

    The number of civilians killed does not of course reflect those maimed, mentally as well as physically, and those tortured by the occupiers. This is always the invisible horror story.

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  3. Just the two Nato atrocities reported today:

    http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1526056.php/Two-civilians-killed-by-NATO-forces-in-Afghanistan-Roundup?

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