Afghan Civilians Intensively Targeted By NATO Crusader Forces

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KABUL – A careful examination of the various reports and photos/video recordings, together with the eyewitnesses and victims, explains that the Afghan civilians are the main targets of deadly attacks launched by the international Crusader forces of NATO.

Although the coalition forces claimed that previous civilian massacres were accidental, the peace movement led by the Afghan people are confident that those murders are the worst indifference which are intentional.

The presence of foreign military and interventions in the last ten years have worsened the situation in Afghanistan, while civilian casualties continue to rise, creating tensions between the coalition forces, puppet government in Kabul and the people of Afghanistan.

This incident is brought further into the perspective of human and material damages caused by war alone. No one becomes accustomed or believe in this illogical method - bombings in the country for peace.

This mentality is not justified and incompatible with the norms. The story of violence must always be questioned. The Afghan people want justice and accountability. It's not surprising, they get the usual response from the NATO - an initial rejection of civilian casualties, the shift to blaming the rebellion, occasional investigations by coming up with false number of civilian deaths and rare official apology. This has been the pattern of the NATO. Explaining and then repeated the deadly attacks on civilians as “errors”. This further proves that the military solution in Afghanistan is not the right choice.

The NATO led forces are equipped with the most advanced technology with the ability to zoom even the smallest object with accurate vision. This raises the question of why so many civilians are dying. To put it in perspective, the following is a brief overview compiled from recent NATO attacks:

It was reported that a total of three atrocities on civilians were carried out by the coalition forces in two weeks. The correct count is four.

- District of Alahsay, Province of Kapisa (5 civilians) on 17th February 2011
- District of Khoygani, Province of Nangarhar (6 civilians) on 20th February 2011
- District of Ghazi Abad, Province of Kunar (60 plus civilians) in four days of NATO operations
- Mountains of Nanglam in the Province of Kunar (9 boys) on 1st March 2011.

One family killed in the Crusader NATO air strikes.

In the province of Kapisa on Thursday, 17th February, the Governor of Alahsay district, Muhammad Umar, asserted that five civilians were killed by NATO air strikes. Five civilians, consisting of three adult males and two children, were reported to have been experiencing severe hunger during the last few months and they were desperate to hunt, so that’s why they carried hunting equipments.

In the province of Nangarhar, on 20th February, an entire family of six people were killed by NATO air attacks in their house in the district of Khoygani. A photo taken by Reuters shows that the missile directly hit the roof of the family home. The parents and their four children were inside when the missile hit the house.

After a four days NATO operation in the district of Ghazi Abad, in the province of Kunar, more than 65 civilians were killed and this had been confirmed by the local governor. More than half of the victims are women and children. Contrary to many evidences, NATO said that there was no civilian killed and then insisted that the rebels (read : Mujahideen- ed.) were among the dead, even though the villagers strongly reject this statement.

Two reports from the investigation team of Afghanistan:

“Soon as the villagers heard shots and planes roaring overhead, they all struggled to take shelter in an old trench used by the Mujahideen during the jihad against Soviet Union.”

“Those who managed to reach the trench were killed when the trench collapsed after it got hit by a rocket or a bomb fired from the coalition helicopter,” the investigation said.

“Those who were on their way to the trench were killed by a rocket or bullets. I visited the trench, I saw parents, dried blood, I saw women and children clothing. I saw the blood stained the wall of the trench. I saw pieces of blankets and cotton blanket of the villagers as it was a cold weather at that time,” one of the investigators said.

The father of the two children said, “They do not have human values and are not concerned with children.”

In an attempt to hide the news, NATO detained two Al-Jazeera journalists, Abdullah Nizami and Saedullah Sahel throughout the investigation on the massacre in Kunar. Samer Alawi, the bureau chief of Al-Jazeera in Kabul stated that the arrest is a repressive measure because it makes them put away their reports. Another report released last month by the Columbia Journalism Review have documented the difficulties of reporting the honest number from the Afghan war.

On 1st March, a NATO helicopter killed 9 Afghan boys and wounded another. This happened without prior warning, one by one the children were targeted. They were aged from seven to nine years, those children came from poor families and were in the middle of collecting firewood in the mountains. How could the NATO forces, once again, find it difficult to distinguish between children and the Mujahideen?

General David Petraeus apologized for this murder, but regarding the previous attacks (which killed 65 plus people), he accused Afghan parents of deliberately setting fire on their children. Hamid Karzai’s spokesman described the comment as racist, insulting and outrageous. Karzai himself had rejected the apology from Petraeus. Mohammad Bismil, a brother of the two boys killed, ignored the apology from Petraeus and said: “My choice now is to raise a Kalashnikov, RPG or wear an explosive vest to kill the opponents.”

(arrahmah.com)

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