Nato apologises after two Afghan boys killed

[Qurratul Ayn]

:salamext:

How dare they?! Do they not have eyes?! :raging:

Nato apologises after two Afghan boys killed

The Nato-led Isaf force has apologised for the deaths of two Afghan boys, killed when a helicopter fired on them, mistaking them for insurgents.
The boys, aged under seven, were killed on Thursday in Uruzgan province.
Isaf takes "full responsibility for this tragedy", its commander said.
Analysts say civilian deaths enrage the Afghan people and President Hamid Karzai, who recently stopped his troops calling in foreign air strikes in built-up areas.
That move came after a 13 February incident where a Nato air strike requested by Afghan forces killed 10 people, including five women and four children.
'Operational incident'
In a statement on Saturday, Gen Joseph Dunford said: "I offer my personal apology and condolences to the family of the boys who were killed."
He said that the boys - who were tending cattle - "were killed when coalition forces fired at what they thought were insurgent forces".
"I am committed to ensuring we do the right thing for the families of those we harmed, as well as for the community in which they lived," the statement added.

Gen Dunford added that Isaf and Afghan investigators had already visited the village in the central province where the boys lived and met local leaders.


The AFP news agency reported that it was Australian troops who shot the boys, after coming under attack from the Taliban in that area.
The governor of Uruzgan, Amir Mohammad Akhundzada, was quoted by AFP as saying: "The children were killed by Australian troops, it was a mistaken incident, not a deliberate one."
Australian forces, who are deployed in Uruzgan, were involved in an "operational incident" in the province, Australian parliamentary Secretary for Defence David Feeney said on Friday.
He added that the Australian military and the Isaf were investigating the incident.
About 1,500 Australian soldiers are based in Uruzgan province. Their main focus is to provide training and mentoring to Afghan soldiers.


President Karzai has demanded time and time again that Nato-led forces take more care and prevent such incidents from occurring, the BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Kabul, says.
The Isaf (International Security Assistance Force) has reduced the number of such killings, but they keep happening, our correspondent adds.
The Nato-led troops are scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and have gradually been handing over responsibility for security to Afghan counterparts.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21642531





O :Allah::swt: please, please, please protect and aid our precious Brothers and Sisters and please grant Jannat-al-Firdaus to our precious Brothers and Sisters who have departed from this Earth due to these monstrous acts. Please, please, please

[جوري]

Apologies for the 'collateral damage' do we accept the apologies of terrorists?

[Jedi_Mindset]

Cowboys must be depressed, 12 years of afghan war and they arent able to defeat mujahideen with less equipment while they have planes, tanks, helicopters et cetera.

In some areas of afghanistan the cowboys dont dare to go out of their bases. When a enemy kills children its mostly because when they lose, out of desperation they start to shoot at civilians, but also out fear.

[Abu Loren]

Well at least it's a start. They've apologised for two children, let's see if they will apologis for the hundreds of thousands they collectively killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan etc etc etc.

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[Jedi_Mindset]

Well at least it's a start. They've apologised for two children, let's see if they will apologis for the hundreds of thousands they collectively killed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan etc etc etc.

They wont.

[sister herb]

""I am committed to ensuring we do the right thing for the families of those we harmed, as well as for the community in which they lived," the statement added."

I doupt about this. What if those families want that those soldiers will get punishment about murder - like death penalty in Afghanistan. No no, those forces just offer them money - like money would give some kind of justice - and those same soldiers will continue killing more civilians.