Cruel balance for Afghanistan: The war, according to an independent organization last year more than 10,000 people dead, among the fatalities in 2000 were civilians. In many places, the security situation had deteriorated - even at the Bundeswehr site Kunduz. Kabul - by attacks and fighting in Afghanistan have been killed in the past year, more than 10,000 people.Among the victims of violence, around 2,000 civilians, as the news agency icasualties on the basis of official figures and information provided by the independent website. org on Sunday charged. The Afghan Interior Ministry on the number of civilians killed, police and insurgents 8560th The Defence Ministry in Kabul registered 810 Afghan soldiers dead.
According to icasualties. org addition, 711 foreign soldiers were killed last year, the bloodiest since the start of the international intervention in Afghanistan in 2001. As the spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, Semarai Baschari said, 2043 civilians were killed in attacks by rebels or the military operations against the insurgents.
The UN assumes a higher death toll: In a report released in December, they estimated the number of civilians killed from January to October of 2412, representing an increase by 20 percent over the same period last year. According Baschari 1292 Afghan policemen were killed last year, 5225 insurgents were killed.
NATO will begin this year with the gradual handover of security responsibility to the Afghans, to be completed by 2014. Four ISAF soldiers dead at the end of the year came at the turn of four foreign soldiers in Afghanistan killed. In the south of the country ISAF soldier was killed on Friday by a bomb in the west, another died in an insurgent attack, as the ISAF said.
On New Year's one ISAF soldier came to the south by a bomb explosion, on the same day, according to reports from London, a British soldier killed by an explosion. The security situation in the province of Kunduz, where the army has a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), has deteriorated in recent years.
Finally, on Tuesday hundreds of Afghan and ISAF troops began an offensive against the Taliban, who are active around the provincial capital of Kunduz. In a joint operation by ISAF and Afghan army was on the night of Friday, the Taliban chief of Kunduz province killed. The "shadow governor" Maulawi Bahadur was "directly" responsible for attacks against Afghan and foreign soldiers in Kunduz have said an Afghan police spokesman.
Germany will decide in late January on mission to the country is the view of Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (FDP), "a pivotal year" before. Westerwelle reiterated on Sunday the goal to withdraw by the end of 2011, the first German soldiers. CDU and FDP called on the SPD and Greens, the extension of the Afghanistan mandate in the Bundestag and the soldiers agree that to give broad backing.
The concrete setting a deadline for withdrawal, but they refused. "Our goal is in the process of responsibility transfer already this year is to achieve significant progress by the end of 2011 for the first time to reach a reduction of the German Bundeswehr contingent," Westerwelle said to the start of a two-year Germany's membership in the UN Security Council in Berlin.
The deduction is scheduled to begin at the will of the federal government but only if the security situation is stable. The parliamentary vote in late January on the extension of the Afghanistan mandate. The SPD has made its approval conditional upon the commencement of the deduction for 2011 is confirmed.
The Greens insist on a precise stage plan that begins in 2011 and 2014 ends. CDU and FDP are against the view that an early definition could play into the hands of the Taliban. / /
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