[progchat_action] Afghan Children Handcuffed, Then Killed By American Soldiers
Dave Anderson
Afghan Children Handcuffed, Then Killed By American Soldiers By:
JacobFreeze Friday January 1, 2010 4:43 am
From the London Times, December 31, 2009
President Karzai sent a team of investigators to Narang district,
in eastern Kunar province, after reports of a massacre first surfaced
on Monday.
The delegation concluded that a unit of international forces descended
from a plane Sunday night into Ghazi Khan village in Narang district
of the eastern province of Kunar and took ten people from three
homes, eight of them school students in grades six, nine and ten,
one of them a guest, the rest from the same family, and shot them
dead, a statement on President Karzais website said.
Assadullah Wafa, who led the investigation, said that US soldiers
flew to Kunar from Kabul, suggesting that they were part of a special
forces unit.
Mr Wafa, a former governor of Helmand province, met President Karzai
to discuss his findings yesterday. I spoke to the local headmaster,
he said. Its impossible they were al-Qaeda. They were children,
they were civilians, they were innocent. I condemn this attack.
In a telephone interview last night, the headmaster said that the
victims were asleep in three rooms when the troops arrived. Seven
students were in one room, said Rahman Jan Ehsas. A student and one
guest were in another room, a guest room, and a farmer was asleep
with his wife in a third building.
First the foreign troops entered the guest room and shot two of
them.
Then they entered another room and handcuffed the seven students.
Then they killed them."
Directly from Karzais website
President Karzai in a telephone contact expressed condolences and
shared grief with the families of the victims of the recent attack
in Kunar province.
Following the attack, President Karzai tasked a delegation on Monday
led by the Chief of Complaints Commission and composed of representatives
from the ministries of Defense, Interior, National Directorate of
Security and the Office of Administrative Affairs for an immediate
investigation of the incident.
The findings by the delegation concluded that a unit of international
forces descended from a plane Sunday night into Ghazi Khan Village
in Narang district of the eastern province of Kunar and took 10
people from three homes, eight of them school students in grades
six, nine and 10, one of them a guest, the rest from the same family,
and shot them dead.
Eight of those shot dead were confirmed as school students by the
village school principle.
From the New York Times
The governor of Kunar, Fazullah Wahidi, said that the coalition
claimed they were enemy fighters, but that elders in the district
and a delegation sent to the remote area had found that 10 people
were killed and all of them were civilians.
From the United Nations
The United Nations said Thursday that a weekend raid by foreign
troops in a tense eastern Afghan province killed eight local students
and that it warned against nighttime actions by coalition forces
because they often cause civilian deaths.
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