US raid kills another Afghan child

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NATO raid kills another Afghan child


Published: May 14, 2011 at 1:23 PM

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KABUL, Afghanistan, May 14 (UPI) -- A night raid in eastern Afghanistan has killed a child for the second time in three days, NATO said Saturday, and a second boy died during protests.
NATO apologized for the killing, which occurred before dawn Saturday in the remote Hesarek district of Nangahar province, considered a Taliban stronghold.
District Gov. Abdul Khalid told The New York Times: "American forces did an operation and mistakenly killed a fourth-grade student; he had gone to sleep in his field and had a shotgun next to him. People keep shotguns with them for hunting, not for any other purposes."
The 15-year-old victim was the son of an Afghan soldier, said Noor Alam, headmaster of his school.
In the morning, more than 200 people gathered in Narra, the boy's village, and marched on town hall with his body.
Some of the men were armed and clashed with police, who opened fire, killing a 14-year-old boy and wounding at least one other person, Khalid said.
"The police had to defend themselves; they fired warning shots," he said.
On Thursday, another NATO night raid in Nangahar killed a 12-year-old girl and her uncle, a policeman.


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here, they killed another child.

WTF? is this. This is all on purpose.

This Afghan government is responsible for this with the foreign criminals.

How dare people talk about stupid developmental projects, when they are killing our people on purpose.


All Afghans are innocent

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For Second Time in 3 Days, Afghan Child Killed by NATO

By SHARIFULLAH SAHAK and ALISSA J. RUBIN

Published: May 14, 2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan — For the second time in three days, a night raid in eastern Afghanistan by NATO forces resulted in the death of a child, setting off protests on Saturday that turned violent and ended in the death of a second boy.
A NATO spokesman apologized for the child’s death, which took place early Saturday in western Nangahar Province in the Hesarek District, a remote poppy-growing area close to Kabul Province and Logar Province. There has been almost no NATO presence there throughout the war, and the area is thought to be heavily penetrated by the Taliban.
The district governor, Abdul Khalid, said he had feared a Taliban attack on the government center and had called for help from local Afghan security forces. At the same time, there was a raid, he said. “American forces did an operation and mistakenly killed a fourth grade student; he had gone to sleep in his field and had a shotgun next to him,” he said.
“People keep shotguns with them for hunting, not for any other purposes,” Mr. Khalid said.
The boy was the son of an Afghan National Army soldier, according to Noor Alam, the headmaster of the school the student attended. Although the boy was 15, like many rural Afghans, he was in a lower grade because he had not been able to go to school regularly, local residents said.
When morning came, an angry crowd gathered in Narra, the boy’s village, and more than 200 people marched with his body to the district center. Some of the men were armed and confronted the police, shouting anti-American slogans and throwing rocks at police vehicles and the Hesarek government center, according to the district governor and the headmaster.
The police opened fire in an effort to push back the crowd to stop its advance to the district center. A 14-year-old boy was killed, and at least one other person was wounded, Mr. Khalid said.
“The police had to defend themselves; therefore, they fired some warning shots,” he said.
On Thursday, a night raid by international forces in Nangahar Province resulted in the death of a 12-year-old girl and her uncle, who was a member of the Afghan National Police.
Elsewhere in eastern Afghanistan, there was a car bombing directed at a joint Afghan and coalition patrol on Saturday. The explosion, in Yaqoubi District, injured eight civilians, including six children, according to Faisal Mohammed, a doctor in the public health hospital in Khost City.

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Protest over NATO casualty kills one, wounds three wounded in eastern Afghanistan




ReutersMay 14, 2011 8:53 AM






Hundreds of Afghans protested on Saturday against the accidental killing of a teenage boy by NATO-led forces in a volatile eastern province, and the district governor said one man was shot dead as police fired at the crowd after it turned violent.

Photograph by: Shah Marai, AFP/Getty Images




JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Hundreds of Afghans protested on Saturday against the accidental killing of a teenage boy by NATO-led forces in a volatile eastern province, and the district governor said one man was shot dead as police fired at the crowd after it turned violent.
District governor Abdul Khaliq Mahroof told Reuters demonstrators had poured into the streets in the Hesarak district of eastern Nangarhar province to denounce the overnight killing of a 15-year-old boy by Afghan and foreign troops.
The mistaken killing of civilians by foreign troops is a major source of friction between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers, and complicates efforts to win support from ordinary Afghans for the war against the Taliban.
"It all started with hundreds of demonstrators throwing stones and later firing weapons," Mahroof said, adding that the protest had now ended.
"The police had to fire back at some of the protesters who were armed and one was killed and three wounded."
Mahroof said insurgents had infiltrated the crowd. He said he did not know whether the dead or wounded protesters had been among those who fired at the police.
Hesarak borders Kabul province and lies some 70 km (40) miles southeast of the capital.
In a statement issued early on Saturday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said its troops had mistakenly killed a 15-year-old boy during an operation with Afghan forces to capture a Taliban insurgent in Hesarak.
Afghan and foreign troops called for the boy to come out of his room while they carried out a raid on his compound in search of a Taliban leader, ISAF said in the statement.
After hearing the troops calling, the boy, who had a shotgun and a pistol by the side of his bed, reached for one of the weapons, it said.
"As a force protection measure, a security force member engaged the individual, resulting in his death. After initial assessment, it was discovered the individual was a local 15-year old male," ISAF said.
Many Afghans, particularly in rural areas, keep weapons in their homes for their own protection against intruders.
The teenager's killing was the second such incident this week. On Thursday, Afghan and foreign troops killed a policeman and a girl during a raid on their compound, also in Nangarhar. [ID:nL3E7GC297]
Violence in Afghanistan is at its worst since the Taliban were overthrown by U.S.-backed Afghan forces almost 10 years ago with record casualties on all sides.
A UN report this year showed that 2010 was by far the most lethal for Afghan civilians with a total of 2,777 civilians killed, up 15 per cent on the previous year.
While the United Nations says insurgents were responsible for 75 per cent of those deaths, it is those caused by foreign troops that angers ordinary Afghans the most. Anti-Western sentiment is also running high a month after a fundamentalist U.S. pastor burned a Koran.
With files from Rafiq Sherzad, Hamid Shalizi and Jonathon Burch
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