NATO has promised an investigation after an air strike earlier today in the Khost Province killed six members of a local security force. The six were said to be members of a local militia that wasn’t directly under the command of the Afghan government.
But the killing did spark significant protests in nearby villages, as locals chanted “Death to America” in a procession that carried the bodies to the home of the Khost Provincial Deputy Police Chief, Youqib Khan.
According to Khan, NATO had initially defended the attack, saying the militia members fired on them first, before promising the investigation. He insisted the district police had no information, beyond confirming that the people killed were linked to the security force.
The killings come at a particularly inopportune time, as NATO is already under scrutiny for attacking and killing three members of Pakistan’s security forces just across the border. NATO apologized in this case, but it came after several days of publicly defending the killings as “self defense.”
"NATO has promised an investigation". Please give some information on all those "investigations". How many got punished for murder, or deliberate manslaughter? How many got punished in milder ways? What happened to them?
It is a modern IDIOCY to allow one part in a crime to promise an "investigation" without EVER, NEVER doing or changing a thing. Because, when THAT can be proven to be the normal consequense: EMPTY WORDS, it raises the next question: THOW DO WE DEAL WITH LAWLESS LEADERS! Do we punish them, or do we continue to aknowledge them in their positions?
If not so, I can only find one moral and decent conclusion: You will have to go after those lawless leaders and politicians! They are the greatest threat against a better world, and the biggest human generators furthering criminal societies, and behavior, and corruption. Nothing less.
So EITHER prove the accountability of the leaders, OR prove the hunt after anyone aiding into providing UNACCOUNTABILITY. Do you see yourself as part of a crimninal enterprise? If not – DO SOMETHING!
And so it goes. Montaigne makes the case that after all these years, and oh so many "investigations", that the killings continue. This is no different than a police departments "internal affairs" investigating a cops slaying of an innocent as being "justifiable" or better yet "within departmental guidelines". Its a paper cover to make it look like they give a damn.