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3,300 Civilians Killed By Afghan Conflict In 12 Months: Ministry
 23 September[ToloNews] The Afghan Ministry of Public Health verified over 14,600 maimed for the same period. New figures by the Ministry of Public Health showed that conflict-related violence in the past 12 months has left more than 3,300 civilians dead and over 14,600 others maimed. The time period measured is from September 16, 2018, to September 10, 2019. "Our system is active in all 34 provinces and we collect data...and when the numbers are verified we enter them into the system," said Mir Lais Mustafa, head of the Incident Response Department of the Command and Control Center. The report does not make claims about which military or group is to blame, although it measures those killed in suicide kabooms, which is 460 killed, and 1,200 maimed. And while bully boy groups are responsible for a high number of civilian casualties, those monitoring the human cost of the war say that all sides in the fighting are responsible. The Independent Human Rights Commission has raised concerns over civilian casualties due to Afghan and foreign forces’ operations and ... KABOOM!... s in the country. "Unfortunately, we have witnessed civilian casualties from the security forces operations in the Sayed Abad district of central Wardak province and Khogyani district of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province," said Abdul Shakur Mashkur, a commissioner at the Independent Human Rights Commission. The Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior state that they have made efforts to prevent civilian casualties during military operations. "Security forces are trying hard to take care of civilians’ lives and not harm them," said Rohullah Ahmadzai, a front man for the Ministry of Defense. "Whenever civilians are harmed by a mistake of the security forces, we investigate the incident and those who have been negligent face serious punishment," says Nusrat Rahimi, a front man for the Ministry of Interior. But Selab Ghorzand, a civil society activist, asks: "Why do they operate this way and kill civilians? We think that they [security forces] have kangaroo courts like the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... and the ISIS  ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute..., which is wrong." In its latest report, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... also expressed concern over civilian casualties in the Afghan war and called on the parties involved in the war to take measures to reduce civilian’s casualties. According to this latest measurement by the Command and Control Center, Baghlan, Kunduz, Nangarhar, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , and Kunar are the provinces with highest civilians’ casualties and Bamyan, Daikondi, Paktia and Balkh have the lowest civilian casualties. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-09-25 |
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