Posted in Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Insurgents, ISAF, NATO/Allies, NGOs, South Asia, Study, United Nations, tagged Afghan forces, Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, drawn down, handover, Lisbon, Nato, NATO Summit, Oxfam, report, transition on November 29, 2010 |
Reuters
By Jonathon Burch
Fri Nov 19, 2010
KABUL
NATO allies must do more to protect civilians as Afghan forces start to take over from foreign troops, with security rapidly deteriorating for most Afghans and violence set to increase in 2011, aid groups said on Friday.
Posted in Afghanistan, Central Asia, Government, Insurgents, ISAF, Military, NATO/Allies, Study, United Nations, tagged Afghanistan, blame, Civilian Casualties, injuries, insurgent, Nato, Open Society Foundation, report, Taliban, United Nations, us on October 19, 2010 |
By: David Wood
PoliticsDaily
October 7, 2010
A study published by the Open Society Foundations shows that Afghans blame US for civilian casualties. The report also calls for the Afghan government to set up an independent organization to maintain a national registry of civilian victims that would list cause of death and who is responsible and urges the international community to extend recent troop directives to reduce the potential for civilian casualties.
Posted in Fact Finding, Pakistan, South Asia, tagged CIVIC, Civilian Casualties, Pakistan, report on October 17, 2010 |
AfPak Channel, Foreign Policy.com
October 14, 2010
By Chris Rogers
Last December, a young boy from Orakzai Agency in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) lost his mother during Pakistani military operations in the area. Jan Mohammed’s village was given ten minutes notice to evacuate before the Pakistani military began shelling. “Our house was up in the hills and my mother was coming down the hill track when the military started shelling. She was hit by one of the shells and died on the spot. If my mother was killed by the Taliban, one can expect it from them because they are crooks. But one can’t expect it from a trained army…they are here to protect us not to kill us like rats.”
Posted in Air Strike, Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Displacement, Government, Insurgents, Internal Displaced Persons, Laws, Trials, Property Damage, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Study, Terrorists, Uncategorized, tagged Civilian Casualties, human rights abuses, ICG, ICRC, international humanitarian law, investigation, LTTE, report, Sri Lankan government, UN, UNHCR, war crimes, war victims on May 17, 2010 |
Source: International Crisis Group (ICG)
Date: 17 May 2010
The Sri Lankan security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) repeatedly violated international humanitarian law during the last five months of their 30-year civil war. Although both sides committed atrocities throughout the many years of conflict, the scale and nature of violations particularly worsened from January 2009 to the government’s declaration of victory in May. Evidence gathered by the International Crisis Group suggests that these months saw tens of thousands of Tamil civilian men, women, children and the elderly killed, countless more wounded, and hundreds of thousands deprived of adequate food and medical care, resulting in more deaths. (more…)
Posted in Displacement, Internal Displaced Persons, NGOs, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Study, tagged ICG, IDPs, LTTE, report, Sri Lanka, Tamil on March 17, 2010 |
