Kunar Province MP Maulana Shahzada has announced that he is filing a complaint against NATO in the International Court of Justice over the massive number of civilians killed by the international occupation force in the past weeks, 74 in his province alone.
Kunar Province is far from the only site facing such violence recently – indeed many NATO attacks killing civilians have been reported in the past few weeks. The rising death toll is sparking growing complaints from officials in the Karzai government.
The anger from the local civilian population is far greater, however, and spawns not just from the massive death tolls but from the NATO denials, including a particularly rambling series of denials in which Gen. Petraeus accused Afghan parents of burning their children, initially to make him look bad, and later claiming that they burn them all the time.
Civilian killings are nothing new in Afghanistan, but have become a major problem since the ouster of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, whose policies aimed at curbing airstrikes around civilian regions were finally starting to lower the tolls, and his replacement with Gen. David Petraeus, who has escalated the strikes dramatically.
Spc. Jason M. Weaver, 22, of Aneheim, Calif., died March 3 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan from an IED attack. This is the first US combat death reported by DOD for March. Nineteen US soldiers were reported killed in Afghanistan in February, 2011, at the US Dept. of Defense web site. At least 11 soldiers from other NATO countries were also killed in Afghanistan in the month of February. A much higher percentage of total NATO combat deaths than in previous months.
It's hard out there for occupation goons eh?
Nato is a dictatorship the same as Mubarak and Ghadafi are dictators. The people are trying to rise up against it but the firepower against them is so much greater than in these other dictatorships. It will take time and enormous suffering but they will have their country back eventually.
We seem to be working hard Not to win their "hearts and minds". We seem to have re-invented the old Phoenix program from Viet Nam, where the goal was to kill or capture all the Viet Cong/Taliban leaders. The techniques are truly stupid! When you drop a 500 lb bomb on a house to get one man, it will also flatten 10 other houses and kill many innocent people. The same thing applies to kicking in doors in the middle of the night.
NATO stands for US and EUs combined militarism regime and its policies based on killing people first before being killed. The principals in any militarism regime is not peace but rather a continues war until the "enemy" is defeated.. Now who that enemy is is not even clear for NATO nor US forces itself, yet anyone and everyone who dress different or speak another language then English are considered to be the combatant enemy.., what they mean by the wording “ combatant enemy” is that: there are others whom also considered as “enemy” whom first demand is peace and justice for all.., these people don’t fight the regime but are against occupations; therefore, they are called enemies of states. NATO have learned this from Israel and its systematic apartheids’ killings of Palestinians which Israel considers them as Arab national and therefore they are the enemy of Israel or Jewish people and if anyone says something about it, then that person or group of people or even a political party will be stamped as anti Semitism and later as combatant enemies and is punishable by torturing them to death. Remember Abu Gharib.
At the same time it is claimed that hundreds of insurgents have been killed in 'battles' with ISAF forces. And that more hundreds of Afghan civilians have been killed by insurgents, who,apparently 'target civilians'. In dispute are numbers of civilians claimed to have been killed in ISAF actions. ISAF claims not to target civilians, so those dead were either a) not targetted or b) not civilians – your choice.