By Shamsurrahman Khpalwak in ToloNews, Aug 31, 2023 at 8:55 PM
Families of those killed in airstrikes by foreign troops in Afghanistan said that during the previous 20 years many civilians have been killed and injured.
Families demanded justice from international institutions, especially human rights institutions.
One of the villages that was a target of night operations, airstrikes, and missile assaults by foreign troops for the past twenty years is Qala-e-Ander, which is located on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in Maidan Wardak province.
According to local residents, nearly 300 people died in this village during various operations of foreign forces.
“Foreign forces attacked our house, my brothers were martyred, our house was destroyed, my mother was injured, my uncle’s house was destroyed. They attacked and bombarded the village, our fellow villagers were martyred and injured,” said Nik Mohammad, who lost two of his brothers in the operation of foreign forces in 2015.
“Eight people were martyred and one was injured, it is known to everyone. See their pictures. They did not deserve to die,” said Gul Bibi, a victim’s mother.
The targeting of civilians by foreign troops, according to some family members of the victims, is a crime for which justice should be served by international courts and human rights organizations.
“They should come and give us our rights. They should see our orphans and martyrs. They should be held accountable. They should see our houses,” said Nazar Mohammad, a resident of Maidan Wardak.
“They came with a lot of horror. Lots of atrocities happened in the last twenty years. We ask the international court to pay our compensation and hand them over to the law,” said Malik Shahzad, another resident of Maidan Wardak.
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