Monday, February 21, 2011

NATO investigates civilian casualties in Afghanistan

After that the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, said in a statement that the NATO force inside Afghanistan killed "about 50 civilians" during a continuing operation in Kunar province (east), the organization sent a team to investigate the matter. For its part, the governor of Kunar province reported that "a total of 63 people died." According to its accuracy, it is 13 insurgents, at least 20 women, 27 children and young people between seven and 20 years and three elders.

NATO said the video images of military operations in Kunar show that coalition troops pursued and killed 36 armed insurgents in a valley in rugged and remote area in northeastern Afghanistan. "We consider very seriously the claims about civilian casualties, "he said in a statement the U.S.

army Colonel Patrick Hynes, director of the center of NATO operations." We have launched an immediate investigation into these claims and present a report with our conclusions. " Civilian casualties have increased in recent months alongside the intensification of insurgent actions. The United Nations said recently in a report that two thousand had documented 412 civilian deaths related to the conflict in the first 10 months of 2010.

Just over three quarters of those casualties were due to rebel activities, an increase of 25% over the same period in 2009, stated in the document. At the same time, civilian casualties decreased attributed to government forces.

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