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Archive for November 6th, 2009

IRAQ: Civilian killed in Iraq’s Diyala violence

Posted by warvictims on November 6, 2009

BAQUBA, Iraq, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — An Iraqi civilian was killed and two others were wounded in gunfire attack and roadside bomb explosion in Iraq’s volatile province of Diyala northeast of Baghdad on Friday, a provincial police source said.

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AFGHANISTAN: Killing civilians triggers demonstration in S Afghan province

Posted by warvictims on November 6, 2009

KABUL, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) — A crowd of Afghans came to the streets of Helmand’s provincial capital Lashkargah in south Afghanistan Thursday and denounced what they described arbitrary killing of civilians.

“Around 100 people carrying some dead bodies in Lashkargah Thursday morning accused NATO-led forces of killing nine civilians and calling on the government to investigate and punish those responsible,” a protestor and demonstrator Hajji Hafizullah Khan told Xinhua.

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