AP|Abdul Sattar|September 7, 2011 A pair of suicide bombers attacked a top army officer in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday, missing him but killing his wife. At least 22 others died, including several guards, a senior officer and two children, officials said. Police said they were investigating whether the strike was in revenge [...]
Posts Tagged ‘civilian wounded’
PAKISTAN: Taliban Suicide Attack In Pakistan Kills At Least 22 People
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Middle-East, tagged Bomb, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, civilian wounded, innocent victims, Middle-East, Pakistan, Taliban on September 7, 2011 |
WEST BANK: Protection of Civilians Weekly Report, 25-31 May, 2011
Posted in Fact Finding, Israel, Middle-East, Palestine, Police, United Nations, tagged civilian wounded, Israel, Palestinians, protection of civilians, UN on May 31, 2011 |
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | 31 May, 2011 This week, Israeli forces injured 13 Palestinians in weekly protests and during search‐and‐arrest operations throughout the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Also this week, 15 members of Israeli forces were injured by stones thrown by Palestinians. Thus far in 2011, 699 Palestinians and [...]
AFGHANISTAN: What price an Afghan life?
Posted in Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, Compensation, Editorial, Government, Health Care, ISAF, Military, NATO/Allies, United Kingdom, United States, tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, civilian wounded, Compensation, ISAF, Military, Nato, uk, UK Ministry of Defence, us military on April 1, 2011 |
By: Peter Singer April 1, 2011 How many Afghan lives are worth one British life? We shrink at that question. If forced to answer, some reply: “All human life is of infinite value.” Others cite the Jewish teaching that if you put one human life on one side of a scale, and the rest of [...]
PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN & INDIA: 282 violent incidents recorded in three months
Posted in Afghanistan, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, India, Insurgents, Middle-East, Pakistan, tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, civilian wounded, civilians, civilians wounded, innocent civilians, innocent victims, Middle-East, militants, Pakistan, war victims on February 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By Usman Manzoor Wednesday, February 02, 2011 ISLAMABAD: The last quarter of 2010 claimed 3648 lives in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India in incidents of anti-state militancy. Thirteen of them were killed everyday in Pakistan alone in some 282 incidents of violence, according to a report compiled by the Conflict Monitoring Centre (CMC). Over one thousand [...]
SOMALIA: More than 960 civilians killed in battles since January 2010
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Displacement, Grenade, Gunfire, Horn of Africa, Insurgents, Mortars, Peacekeepers, Somalia, tagged Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, civilian wounded, civilians wounded, innocent civilians, innocent victims, Insurgents, militants, Mogadishu, Somalia, war victims on August 25, 2010 |
Source: Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) Date: 24 Aug 2010 Since January 2010, at least 964 civilians have been killed and 2,717 wounded in armed conflicts or in random shootings in residential neighborhoods, as reported by the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP). “While the atrocious attack by Islamic rebels in which members of the Somali [...]
