13) HUNDREDS KILLED BY NATO IN AFGHANISTAN
(The following article is from the September 16-30, 2008, issue of People's Voice, Canada's leading communist newspaper. Articles can be reprinted free if the source is credited. Subscription rates in Canada: $25/year, or $12 low income rate; for U.S. readers - $25 US per year; other overseas readers - $25 US or $35 CDN per year. Send to: People's Voice, c/o PV Business Manager, 133 Herkimer St., Unit 502, Hamilton, ON, L8P 2H3.)
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Aug. 4: US troops in Ghazni province kill five civilians.
Aug. 7: US troops kill five civilians in Ghazni.
Aug. 9: NATO airstrike kills between 11 and 31 civilians in Kapisa.
Aug. 12: NATO troops kill driver in Helmand.
Aug. 13: NATO airstrike kills 3 children in Logar.
Aug. 16: Local officials say NATO bombing kills 11 civilians in Ghazni.
Aug. 17: NATO rocket attack kills 3 civilians in Helmand.
Aug. 19: German NATO troops in Badakhshan province shoot and kill a man later said to have been a civilian.
Aug. 21: US-led forces call airstrikes that kill between 12 and 20 civilians in Laghman province.
Aug. 22: US special forces accompanying Afghan troops called in an airstrike in Shindand district of Herat. Estimates by Afghan and UN officials, journalists and the AIHRC range from 78 to 95 civilians dead. Locals say no insurgents were present at the time of the attack.
Aug. 27: American-led soldiers kill Afghan national cricket star Rahmat Wali in a raid on his home in Khost.
Aug. 28: In Kunduz, German (or Afghan) troops open fire on a vehicle, killing two children and a woman.
Aug. 30: In Kapisa, an airstrike in support of US-led forces kills five civilians, according to police officials.
August total: 139 to 184 civilians killed.
July 3: Six civilians killed in US-led airstrike in Farah.
July 4: Seventeen civilians killed in US airstrike in Nuristan.
July 6: US airstrike in Nangarhar kills 47 to 52 civilians in wedding party - mostly women and children.
July 9: In Logar province, NATO troops kill a civilian man and injure his wife in a house raid.
July 9: Red Cross says 250 civilians dead in five days (i.e. July 4 - 8). The NGO blames both insurgents and NATO/US forces and their Afghan allies.
Jul 15: NATO airstrike kills eight (perhaps nine) civilians - mostly women and children - in Farah.
July 16: Local officials say over 50 civilians killed by NATO airstrikes in Herat.
July 19: NATO forces kill four (perhaps seven) civilians with mortars in Paktika.
July 20: Airstrike kills nine Afghan police in Farah. Other reports say it was four police and five civilians.
July 26: British NATO troops in Helmand shoot and kill four civilians at checkpoint.
July 26: NATO airstrike kills civilian couple in their home in Kapisa.
July 27: Canadian NATO troops in Kandahar fire on a vehicle and kill two children.
July 29: An ISAF helicopter kills six civilians in Kunar province, according to local officials.
July total: 147 to 161 civilians killed. Totals are based on the author's own tallies of all available reports of Afghan civilians killed by troops of NATO's International Security Assistance Force and the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom.