US troops kill several Afghan civilians

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US troops kill several Afghan civilians
Sun May 15, 2011 4:55PM
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US-led troops during a house search operation in Afghanistan
American troops have killed several women and children in the troubled eastern Afghanistan amid growing civilian casualties in the war-torn country.


Villagers in Kunar Province say the US troops fired rockets at local residents from their military outposts.

The children were all girls aged 8 to 15.

Also, a 12-year-old child was reportedly killed and four others were injured in a NATO attack in Kunar on Sunday.

In a separate incident on Thursday, a 12-year-old girl was killed in Nangarhar Province after foreign troops hurled a hand grenade towards her.

Afghan authorities say they are investigating the attacks.

A NATO spokesman has said the alliance was aware of civilian casualties in Kunar but could not provide further details.

On Saturday, hundreds of people took to the streets in the eastern province of Nangarhar following the killing of a teenage boy by NATO troops Friday night.

Nearly three thousands civilians were killed in the Afghan conflict last year.

Hundreds of civilians have lost their lives in US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past few months, with Afghans becoming more outraged over the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.

Civilian casualties have long been a source of friction between the Afghan government and US-led foreign forces. The loss of civilian lives at the hand of foreign forces has dramatically increased anti-American sentiments in Afghanistan.

The war in Afghanistan, with civilian and military casualties at record highs, has become the longest war in US history.

The surge in violence comes despite the presence of 150,000 foreign troops engaged in the so-called war on terrorism.

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they are killing more children, women, and elderly men more than ever. There are no such mistakes.

This is punishment for being defeated.

Its becoming a pattern. How can Afghans be getting killed every day?

All Afghans are innocent whoever they are. Only foreigners and their lackeys are the criminals and those who support them in this failed war of aggression against the Afghan
people.

All Afghans see this everyday. The rural South and East is Afghanistan - no other part.

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Raid by NATO forces kills child in 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 Saturday that turned violent and ended in the death of a second boy.
By The New York Times

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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 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," Khalid said.
The boy, 15, was the son of an Afghan National Army soldier, according to Noor Alam, the headmaster of the school the student attended. .
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, Khalid said.