enhanced_deficit
06-01-2017, 10:23 AM
Canada is supposed to be our closest ally but their focus on civilians deaths in US led wars is bit surprising.
Thanksfully, US media owners know better.
Afghan civilians bear brunt of U.S.-led war
Few American, NATO troops now die in the conflict but their presence ensures ever more Afghans will get killed
By Don Murray, CBC News Jun 01, 2017
A well-travelled former CBC reporter and documentary maker, Don Murray is a freelance writer and translator based in London and Paris.
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The appalling carnage on Wednesday left scores dead and hundreds injured. A devastating truck bomb blast created a giant crater almost three metres deep in Kabul's Wazir Akbar Khan diplomatic district, home to the presidential palace, to government ministries and to major foreign embassies.
It left the German Embassy looking as though it had been racked by an earthquake. The Canadian Embassy sustained "significant damage" to its first floor, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said, but embassy staff were accounted for and safe.
Yet despite the fact that this war is being fought by an international coalition of troops, the vast majority of victims, once again, were Afghan civilians.
And this was in Kabul's so-called Green Zone — a term first coined for the area around Saddam Hussein's compound in Baghdad, an area turned into a forbidding redoubt of blast walls and checkpoints created by the invading Americans in 2003 to protect the fearful Iraqi government inside.
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'Cowardly' attack
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https://i.cbc.ca/1.4140325.1496265668%21/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/afghanistan-blast.jpg Afghan officials outside the German embassy in Kabul after Wednesday's blast.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kabul-spring-offensive-1.4139885
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Afghan civilians bear brunt of U.S.-led war
Few American, NATO troops now die in the conflict but their presence ensures ever more Afghans will get killed
By Don Murray, CBC News Jun 01, 2017
A well-travelled former CBC reporter and documentary maker, Don Murray is a freelance writer and translator based in London and Paris.
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Spring in Kabul — words that conjure up not flowers in bloom but bombs, destruction and death.
Spring in Afghanistan means the "spring offensive," now so bloodily rooted in tradition that it's announced via email by the Taliban. This year the announcement went out on April 28.
The appalling carnage on Wednesday left scores dead and hundreds injured. A devastating truck bomb blast created a giant crater almost three metres deep in Kabul's Wazir Akbar Khan diplomatic district, home to the presidential palace, to government ministries and to major foreign embassies.
It left the German Embassy looking as though it had been racked by an earthquake. The Canadian Embassy sustained "significant damage" to its first floor, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said, but embassy staff were accounted for and safe.
Yet despite the fact that this war is being fought by an international coalition of troops, the vast majority of victims, once again, were Afghan civilians.
And this was in Kabul's so-called Green Zone — a term first coined for the area around Saddam Hussein's compound in Baghdad, an area turned into a forbidding redoubt of blast walls and checkpoints created by the invading Americans in 2003 to protect the fearful Iraqi government inside.
Like Baghdad, the centre of Kabul is now a wilderness of blast walls and jumpy soldiers. The Green Zone is a fortress under siege in all but name.
'Cowardly' attack
In 2016, more than 11,400 (https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2017-04-30qr.pdf) Afghan civilians died bloodily — the highest death count since the United Nations started registering civilian casualties in 2009. More than 320,000 Afghans were displaced from their homes by fighting last year.
https://i.cbc.ca/1.4140325.1496265668%21/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/afghanistan-blast.jpg Afghan officials outside the German embassy in Kabul after Wednesday's blast.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kabul-spring-offensive-1.4139885
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