Posted in Civilian Casualties, Iraq, Middle-East, Military, Uncategorized, tagged civilian deaths, innocent victims, Iraq, Middle-East, Military, war victims on September 8, 2011|
The Telegraph|September 8 2011
Baha Mousa, an innocent civilian, welcomed the British forces who occupied his hometown of Basra in April 2003, because their arrival signalled the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
But less than half a year later the 26 year-old father-of-two had suffered a brutal, humiliating death at the hands of a small number of British soldiers he saw as liberators.
Posted in Air Strike, Body Count, Civilian Casualties, Drone, Government, Pakistan, South Asia, United States, tagged ACLU, Brennan, CIA, CIVIC, Civilian Casualties, drones, Pakistan, unmanned drones, US forces, USA, victims, war victims, White house on July 19, 2011|
ACLU | Jonathan Manes | July 19, 2011
For well over a year now, the ACLU has been urging the government to level with the public about the number of civilians that are being killed in its drone strike/targeted killing operations. The government has been tight-lipped — refusing even to confirm or deny the existence of any records relating to civilian casualties in CIA drone strikes. Last month, however, John Brennan, the White House’s top counterterrorism advisor broke this silence, telling reporters that “in the last year ‘there hasn’t been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities that we’ve been able to develop.'” (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, Diplomacy, Government, tagged Afghanistan, Government, human rights, war victims on April 1, 2011|
March 30, 2011
Transitional Justice Coordination Group (TJCG) is planning to unite war victims in Afghanistan to seek their rights and with a vision for eternal peace in the country.
A conference was held by the Transitional Justice Coordination Group in Kabul on Wednesday focused on human rights situation, war victims’ rights, introduction of war victims’ international movements and their pivotal role in peace in their countries.
“They should be united so that nobody could ever divide them based on lingual and ethnic issues,” Yunus Akhtar, a member of TJCG, said. (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, NATO/Allies, South Asia, tagged Afghanistan, Compensation, us military, war victims on March 8, 2011|
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/06/world/la-fg-afghanistan-destroyed-village-20110306
Tarok Kalache, a hamlet of mud-brick compounds and pomegranate groves northwest of Kandahar city, was razed five months ago amid fierce combat between Taliban fighters and U.S. and Afghan forces.
Los Angeles Times
By Laura King
March 5, 2011
Tarok Kalache, Afghanistan
When the fighting finally ended, the Taliban insurgents were gone from this farming village in southern Afghanistan.
But the village was gone too.
Tarok Kalache, a hamlet of mud-brick compounds and pomegranate groves northwest of Kandahar city, was razed five months ago amid fierce combat between Taliban fighters and U.S. and Afghan forces. Its three dozen farm families were scattered, its mosque flattened, its orchards reduced to rows of blackened ghost-trees, its irrigation canals choked with debris. (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, Air Strike, Civilian Casualties, NATO/Allies, South Asia, tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, innocent civilians, innocent victims, Military, Nato, war victims on March 3, 2011|
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/03/afghanistan.isaf.civilians/index.html?hpt=T2
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — A NATO commander called the military’s killing of nine eastern Afghan boys thought to be insurgents “a terrible mistake” and promised disciplinary action if warranted.
In a video message on Thursday, Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez apologized for the deaths and said an investigation is ongoing into the Tuesday incident in the Darah-Ye Pech district of Afghanistan’s Kunar province.
Civilian casualties during warfare in Afghanistan have hurt NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, and Rodriguez’s video statement reflects the high priority coalition leaders place on avoiding such accidents.
He said insurgents in mountains above a coalition base launched a rocket attack that wounded a U.S. civilian. Troops returned fire, and insurgents later shot another rocket at the troops. (more…)
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