Friday August 02, 2019
Kabul (BNA) Afghan government has rejected a UN report on a drop in the civilian casualties in the war-torn country saying the report is detached from the reality on the ground.
The remarks came in reaction to a latest report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) saying that there has been a 27 percent drop in casualties for the first half of 2019 compared to the same period last year, which was a record.
A total of 1,366 civilians have been killed and 2,446 more were injured in Afghanistan's conflict during the first six months of this year, according to the United Nations.
In a statement, the UN welcomed the drop but said it "continues to regard the level of harm done to civilians as shocking and unacceptable,"
It was July 28 when a group of 4 armed assailants launched a complex attack on the building behind me housing the office of Afghanistan’s former intelligence agency chief Amrullah Saleh. Although he safely escaped the attack, many homes nearby were badly damaged and the attack killed and injured 70 people. Most of them civilians.
As the battle in Afghanistan gets intensified, local Afghans – who have experienced 4 decades of war- believe that nothing except for a lasting peace deal would stop civilian deaths in the country.
Based on UNAMA report, nearly 450 women were killed or wounded from January to the end of June this year. The Afghan government blames the Taliban for more civilian deaths including child casualties.
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