Airstrike on madrasa kills 100s of graduating students - world silent

**AabiruSabeel** · 04-04-2018

An airstrike on a madrasa in Afghanistan which was conducting a graduation ceremony for children who have completed the memorization of the Holy Qur'an kills hundreds of people. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'oon.

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Intriguing media silence over air strike killing Madrassa children in Afghanistan - Global Village Space
There are pictures of innocent children with garlands and turbans, apparently the ones present in the madrassa at the time of the strike, being circulated over twitter with the caption, “IamNotTerrorist”. Overall criticism is that had it been...

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Afghan Airstrike In Kunduz Province Kills Almost 100 Children - Carbonated.TV
Dozens of children, aged between 10 to 12 years, were gathered at a religious school to receive gifts for memorizing the Quran. Most of them were killed....

**AabiruSabeel** · 04-04-2018

From the news report:

Sadly, according to developing reports, the people who were present at the school were children mostly under the age of 10 and their family members. These children were attending a religious event, known as Dastaar Bandi, where they were supposed to receive gifts and other awards for memorizing the Quran.

"There were children as young as 11 or 12 years old in the ceremony who were to be presented with awards and gifts for the completion of their religious courses," said Mohammed Abdul Haq, an eye witness of the attack.

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From https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-.../29145508.html

eyewitnesses and villagers who survived the attack claim the air strikes in the Taliban-controlled Dasht-i Archi district in Kunduz Province did not target militants, and killed dozens of civilians -- including children -- who had gathered for a religious ceremony.
Residents of Dasht-i Archi claim no members of the Taliban were present as hundreds of people gathered for dastaar bandi, a ceremony marking the graduation of young men who have memorized the Koran, Islam's holy book.

Nasruddin Saadi, the district governor of Dasht-i Archi, said on April 3 that the air strikes hit a mosque and religious school, killing and wounding around 150 people.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said the same day that its investigators were in the area looking into "disturbing reports of serious harm" to civilians.

Amanullah, a resident of Dasht-i Archi, located around 80 kilometers from the provincial capital, told RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan on April 3 that the air strikes hit a ceremony for which hundreds had gathered in the Gojar Akhundzada mosque and nearby fields. He claimed around 50 civilians were killed and scores injured.

"The helicopters first fired artillery and then rockets,” said Amanullah as he stood outside Zone Hospital. “Everything was destroyed. The area was littered with dead bodies and body parts.”

“There was nobody there to help us,” added Amanullah, who only goes by one name. “There were no ambulances. We had to transport the wounded by car to Kunduz city.”

Amanullah claimed there were no Taliban fighters present at the religious ceremony in the district.

“There were only civilians,” he says. “Most were clerics and religious students. It was a graduation ceremony for students."

**سيف الله** · 04-04-2018

Salaam

How much more torment will these people have to endure?

The government 'response'.

Victims' relatives demand accountability over Kunduz air raids

Family members reject defence ministry claims that no civilians were killed in Kunduz attack targeting Taliban fighters.

Distraught relatives of children killed in a government air raid targeting Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's Kunduz province have rejected official claims that no civilians were killed in the attack as "dishonest".

A religious school in the Dasht-e-Archi district of the northern province was hit late on Monday.

The Afghan government said the raids targeted a Taliban gathering, but witnesses and local officials maintained that at the time of the attack, a Dastaar Bandi ceremony - an event celebrating young men completing the memorisation of the Quran - was taking place at the school.

There are conflicting reports over the number of people killed in the attack, and under which circumstances.

A district official said a total of 70 people - including children and top Taliban commanders - were killed, while witnesses put the death toll to at least 100. Nematullah Temori, spokesman for the provincial governor, said seven civilians were killed in the attack.

But General Mohammad Radmanish, spokesman for the defence ministry, said that according to their intelligence, no civilians were present at the time of the air raid.

He told Al Jazeera that the air raid targeted a Taliban gathering where members of the group were discussing plans to capture Kunduz city.

"The Taliban were gathered in a room planning their next move to take over Kunduz city.

"We have surveillance footage of armed men and pictures of Taliban leaders in the area that was attacked," he said, adding that 18 Taliban commanders were killed in the raid.

Rest here

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/victims-relatives-demand-accountability-kunduz-air-raids-180404072317530.html

This war has to end, just has to stop, has to stop.

**czgibson** · 04-04-2018

Greetings,

This is a horrifying turn of events and our thoughts should be with the victims and their families.

It has been reported by CBS, BBC, Washington Post, Al Jazeera and others - hardly media silence.

Peace

**Misbah-Abd** · 04-04-2018

Originally Posted by czgibson

Greetings,

This is a horrifying turn of events and our thoughts should be with the victims and their families.

It has been reported by CBS, BBC, Washington Post, Al Jazeera and others - hardly media silence.

Peace

But they don't dare call it a terrorist attack. It's not about the exposure. It's about how its portrayed and how they want it to be perceived.

**azc** · 04-05-2018

Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajioon.

**anatolian** · 04-05-2018

Is it considered colleteral damage?

May Allah reward the victims with Jannah

**JustTime** · 04-07-2018

Originally Posted by Misbah-Abd

But they don't dare call it a terrorist attack. It's not about the exposure. It's about how its portrayed and how they want it to be perceived.

Not only that but if it even is mentioned, it wouldn't take more than a few seconds, it won't be the topic for days there will be investigations and the worst that will come out of this for the perpetrator will be "You made a mistake be careful next time".

**azc** · 04-07-2018

Perhaps they think that madarsa students were terrorists.?

**MazharShafiq** · 04-07-2018

The big enemy creates and fears the children.
sham on the killer of children.

**czgibson** · 04-07-2018

Greetings,

Originally Posted by Misbah-Abd

But they don't dare call it a terrorist attack. It's not about the exposure. It's about how its portrayed and how they want it to be perceived.

The title of the thread says "world silent", which is clearly untrue.

Peace

**AabiruSabeel** · 04-07-2018

Originally Posted by czgibson

Greetings,

The title of the thread says "world silent", which is clearly untrue.

Peace

Imagine anything similar happening in UK or the US. There would be uproar in the whole world, with UN resolutions and sanctions, and declaration of war, and occupation and annihilation of other countries.

The contrast speaks for itself. No front page headlines, no prolonged discussions going on several weeks. It is already forgotten in the media.

**czgibson** · 04-07-2018

Greetings,

Originally Posted by AabiruSabeel

The contrast speaks for itself.

Yes, that's fair enough. Too many events like this get forgotten too quickly.

Peace

**Search** · 04-07-2018

(In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)

Hope you're doing well God-willing.

As to your remarks, it is actually more than that. It is not just that events like that are forgotten. It is that the mainstream media is lame as all-get-out. For example, one of the reasons President Donald Trump won the election is because he seemed to the many poor and forgotten middle class Americans a better choice than former Secretary Hillary Clinton. Yet the corporate media, that is major news channels here, not covering stories on the West Virginia and Ohio teacher strikes or the current Disney strike. The question that should be begged is why the heck is this not given coverage in major media channels, and of course the answer lays in the big media protecting corporate interests. It is gross, but that's the reality. It is also why stories like this airstrike is not given airtime by major media outlets, because it would lead to questioning of military incompetence or negligence or what-have-you and current decisions of America doing war interventions in 8 different countries under President Trump currently. Because money talks, and moneyed people have allied interests in keeping the war machine going because selling arms to the military is big business and making arms is even bigger business. It is why any reasonable discussions on restrictions on gun control is even immediately shut down. Because frankly, American politics is extremely corrupt.

Regular Americans don't care or even want to be in different countries, protecting interests of the corporations dealing in arms and laying down their lives for corrupt politicians - so, they're instead sold on the lies of how everybody in the world is evil and hates America for no conceivable reason. That's the narrative. It sucks. But unfortunately, I don't see that changing. American media will cover instead porn star Stormy Daniels' decades-old affair with President Trump, because then they don't have to cover the real issues which haunt Americans: poverty, continuing disappearance of middle class, evaporation of American dream of affording a house, corporations not paying living wages to their workers, unions being pushed out or being unable to be sustained, being at war in 8 different countries which didn't attack the homeland, and corruption from top-down in politics because corporations have lobbyists that buy politicians' votes and favors legally.

So, my personal hope is that Bernie Sanders runs against President Donald Trump in 2020 and wins, so that we begin addressing the issues that really matter to regular Joe as an American and plague Americans generally. And I'm actually tired of non-news like former Secretary Hillary Clinton trying to blame her loss on sexism being covered as well; the truth is while she was a better choice than President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, she was actually too close to Wall Street and had proven herself a corporate shill in many instances. So, her being better than President Trump in the 2016 election is actually a sad commentary on American politics generally. Americans are tired of the same-old, same-old. And it is just too bad that President Trump has, since taking his seat in the Oval Office , taken to proving himself an incompetent buffoon that is too hopelessly narcissistic and ill-informed and corrupt to address the issues he said he would to give the have-nots what they'd wanted out of him. President Trump constantly attacking the corporate media as "fake news" is incorrect in the sense that those media channels are not deliberately giving erroneous information out to the public, but they're "fake" in the sense that they deliberately divert American public's eyes from the real issues that continue to haunt America. And of course, President Trump is right (just as a broken clock is right twice a day) that they do have a liberal slant, but unfortunately it is a slant that is aligned with only corporate interests rather than public interest. It is also disgusting how the media acts as a propaganda arm of the government when it comes to wars that it wants to start; and right now, those countries are North Korea and Iran. I'm 100% disgusted by the mainstream media; I try to not take my news from them because they're so idiotic in their coverage priorities that they're at this point just diversionary agents of powers-that-be.

Originally Posted by czgibson

Greetings,

Yes, that's fair enough. Too many events like this get forgotten too quickly.

Peace

**anatolian** · 04-07-2018

Originally Posted by AabiruSabeel

Imagine anything similar happening in UK or the US. There would be uproar in the whole world, with UN resolutions and sanctions, and declaration of war, and occupation and annihilation of other countries.

The contrast speaks for itself. No front page headlines, no prolonged discussions going on several weeks. It is already forgotten in the media.

Was just going to write the same thing then I saw you have already written. These atacks became as usual in war torn countries like Afghanistan and the world regards it as a general situation of the country. It is not “news” anymore in the eyes of people which is the worst.

**سيف الله** · 04-07-2018

Salaam

To be fair in the UK, British troops dying or being injured dont get that much coverage. At first yes but as the war dragged on they were given less and less airtime, the shock value wears off after a while.

**Misbah-Abd** · 04-07-2018

Originally Posted by Junon

Salaam

To be fair in the UK, British troops dying or being injured dont get that much coverage. At first yes but as the war dragged on they were given less and less airtime, the shock value wears off after a while.

Perhaps they don't report it by orders of the State. And this is how the modern State operates. They don't want to cause dissension among the people.

**سيف الله** · 04-08-2018

Salaam

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**AllahIsAl-Malik** · 04-08-2018

How can they kill children after they memorize the Quran??? What horror. People have lost their basic humanity.

**JustTime** · 04-09-2018

Originally Posted by Junon

Salaam

To be fair in the UK, British troops dying or being injured dont get that much coverage. At first yes but as the war dragged on they were given less and less airtime, the shock value wears off after a while.

To be fair take a good look at Malala then these Quran students then you will realize the difference