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Intentionally Killing Civilians, ‘War Crime,’ Protesters

Tuesday December 8, 2015

Kabul (BNA) Hundreds of people including MPs and civil society members took to the streets, on Sunday, and staged a gathering at Abdul Haq Square, Kabul, denouncing civilians’ death in Maidan/Wardak, as a ‘war crime.’
Some people, including children have been killed, when a missile, has allegedly mistakenly fired by the security forces, landed a village, in Sayedabad district of the southern province, according to reports. The protesters carrying some anti-incident banners and posters warned those involved in the deadly incident that ‘the enemy of the people of Afghanistan should know that all Afghans were a single nation with shared pain’ and asked the government to follow the case and bring those involved to justice. “No difference between the Afghans—anywhere they live; Wardak, Zabul, Badakhshan, Kunduz, Daikundi, Achin of Nangarhar etc. we’re a single nation and this killing civilians are not tolerable,” said Abdul Rahim Ayoubi, a member of the house of people.
“The Taliban are taking our lives, Daesh is killing us and foreign forces take revenge from our people and finally the security forces by mistakenly shelling victimizing our innocents. Such killings are not tolerable for us. We ask the government of national unity to precisely probe into the recent incident in Wardak and bring those involved into justice,” said Ayoubi. Another MP, Kalimzai also blamed the government for failing to ensure the people security in the province, where over one million people have voted for the new system. “In the last more than thirteen years, nothing had been still witnessed in the secure sphere in the province, despite the new government’s promises to do more for the people and take their security, but the security forces are committing such a crime and becoming the cause of the civilian death.”
A protester from the civil society, Bari Salam asked the government to identify those people committing crimes against the system within the system and bring them to justice. “The government should distinguish friend and foe and remove the enemy from the system body.” No pain differs between the people of Afghanistan, neither the north nor the south he said asking the government for crucially launching investigation into the deadly incident and try those culprits to justice.
Another civil society member, Latifa Wardak condemned the civilian death in the province and said the people in the province were the poorest ones in the country. Children instead of helping go to school are killed by the so-called mistakenly security forces’ shelling, she said calling on the government not create or widen gap between the people and soon launch investigation into the case and legally pursue those involved in the bloody event. The government of national unity said it had sent a fact-finding delegation to probe the incident from near and submit to the government. “Any group, including the national army, if found guilty in the incident, would be taken by the sent impartial delegation and legal punished,” said Daulat Waziri defense ministry’s spokesman. Afghanistan human rights commission condemned civilian death from any side, in Maida/Wardak province, with a member Nazifa Sultani said the main element behind the death was reportedly incoordination between the security forces and inaccurate report that resulted to the bloody event.
 

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