Ian Sinclair
On May 4 the US bombed the village of Granai in Farah province, Afghanistan, killing 140 civilians according to the Afghanistan government, including approximately 90 children.
It was the single largest loss of life caused by US/NATO forces since the 2001 invasion.
President Hamid Karzai denounced the air strikes as “unjustifiable and unacceptable,” hundreds of people demonstrated in Kabul and in Farah city there was a riot outside the governor’s office and traders closed their shops in protest.
The US military initially claimed the civilians had been killed by grenades hurled by Taliban fighters. These assertions were shown to be false by eyewitness accounts and were quickly withdrawn.
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Granai: anatomy of a massacre
On May 4 the US bombed the village of Granai in Farah province, Afghanistan, killing 140 civilians according to the Afghanistan government, including approximately 90 children.
It was the single largest loss of life caused by US/NATO forces since the 2001 invasion.
President Hamid Karzai denounced the air strikes as “unjustifiable and unacceptable,” hundreds of people demonstrated in Kabul and in Farah city there was a riot outside the governor’s office and traders closed their shops in protest.
The US military initially claimed the civilians had been killed by grenades hurled by Taliban fighters. These assertions were shown to be false by eyewitness accounts and were quickly withdrawn.
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Tags: 90 children killed, Afghanistan, B-1B bomber, civilians ains and children killed, civilians killed, investigation, massacre, photojournalist Guy Smallman, Taliban, U.S. bombing, U.S. military, village Granai
This entry was posted on August 19, 2009 at 5:30 am and is filed under Afghanistan, Commentary, imperialism, Uncategorized, US policy, USA, war, war crimes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.