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Inquiry finds NATO soldiers killed 10 civilians
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December 31, 2009, Thursday
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THE head of a presidential delegation investigating the deaths of 10 people in eastern Afghanistan concluded yesterday that civilians - including schoolchildren - were killed in an attack involving foreign troops, disputing NATO reports that the dead were insurgents.
Asadullah Wafa, a senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai, said via telephone that eight schoolchildren between the ages of 12 and 14 were among the dead discovered in a village house in the Narang district of Kunar province.
A NATO official has said initial reports from troops involved in the fighting on Sunday indicated that those killed were insurgents - all young males.
Civilian deaths are a sensitive issue for foreign troops in Afghanistan, especially now when some additional 37,000 United States and NATO troops are being deployed to the war-ravaged country. Although far more civilians are killed by the Taliban, those blamed on international forces spark widespread resentment and undermine the fight against militants.
Several hundred Afghans protested the deaths yesterday in Jalalabad and in Kabul, the capital. In Jalalabad, they burned US President Barack Obama's effigy and an American flag, chanting "death" to Obama and Karzai.
Asadullah Wafa, a senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai, said via telephone that eight schoolchildren between the ages of 12 and 14 were among the dead discovered in a village house in the Narang district of Kunar province.
A NATO official has said initial reports from troops involved in the fighting on Sunday indicated that those killed were insurgents - all young males.
Civilian deaths are a sensitive issue for foreign troops in Afghanistan, especially now when some additional 37,000 United States and NATO troops are being deployed to the war-ravaged country. Although far more civilians are killed by the Taliban, those blamed on international forces spark widespread resentment and undermine the fight against militants.
Several hundred Afghans protested the deaths yesterday in Jalalabad and in Kabul, the capital. In Jalalabad, they burned US President Barack Obama's effigy and an American flag, chanting "death" to Obama and Karzai.
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