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Airstrike against civilians continue despite warning of Afghan Govt
I don't know if Coalition crimes would stop soon, it's time to dialog with taliban instead of revenging against civilians!
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan air strikes since 2006Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that NATO troops had fired a rocket that killed 52 innocent villagers in southern Afghanistan, though the alliance said there was no evidence of any casualties.
The following are some of the deadliest incidents of civilian casualties in air strikes since 2006.
The numbers are often disputed by Afghan officials and foreign forces, who accuse insurgents of sheltering among civilians.
2006
May 22: Afghanistans main human rights organisation says that 37 civilians were killed in an air strike in the southern province of Kandahar. The Afghan authorities say that 16 civilians and 80 Taliban were killed.
October 1: A government-appointed commission finds that 53 civilians were killed in a nearly two-week NATO-led operation in a Taliban stronghold in Kandahar in September that NATOs International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said left around 1,000 rebels dead.
October 24: The NATO force admits to around a dozen civilian casualties in an air strike in Kandahar that killed 70 people. Residents said 60 civilians were killed in the strikes.
2007
April 27-29: The coalition says intense fighting, including air strikes, killed 136 Taliban fighters in the western province of Herat. But Afghan and UN officials later say more than 50 civilians, including women and children, died.
June 30: Anti-Taliban air strikes in Helmand province kill 45 civilians, according to local officials.
2008
July 6: Air strikes hit a wedding party in the eastern province of Nangarhar. An Afghan team finds later that 47 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed.
August 22: Afghan and UN teams say more than 90 civilians, including more than 50 children, were killed in US-led coalition air strikes in Farah.
I don't know if Coalition crimes would stop soon, it's time to dialog with taliban instead of revenging against civilians!