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| Report Finds 2,421 Civilians Killed in 2010 Violence | |
| 2011-02-02 | |
| [Tolo News] In total 2,421 innocent Afghan non-combatants were killed nationwide in Taliban-led violence last year, a recent report by Afghan Rights Institution said. Bulk of the civilian deaths happened at the hands of Death Eaters, the report found.
Foreign forces were blamed for only one fifth of the entire civilian deaths, which signals a drop compared to 2009, it said. Militant groups that were believed to have been responsible for majority of civilian deaths last year included the Taliban, al-Qaeda linked bad turbans, Haqqani network and many others. Civilian deaths have repeatedly been criticised by senior Afghan officials. Most often civilians, most of them with no exact image of what is really going on in the country, lose their lives in counterinsurgency combat that has continued for over nine years now. In a recent terrorist attack in Kabul, a supermarket located in a diplomatic area was targeted, in which 8 civilians including 6 from one family bit the dust. | |
| Posted by:Fred |