Human Rights Organization Information And How To Help

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Human Rights Organization Information And How To Help

It amazes me world wide the atrocities against so many people continue to be so easily ignored...I assume worrying about the gay community being allowed to wed is more important to protest etc....heartbreaking the hypocrisy in the so called religious communities that of which our leaders have to swear to be a part of and yet such goes on...

http://hrw.org/

http://hrw.org/reports/2008/afghanistan0908/1.htm#_Toc208224416

I am not happy with civilian casualties coming down; I want an end to civilian casualties… As much as one may argue it’s difficult, I don’t accept that argument… It seriously undermines our efforts to have an effective campaign against terrorism.

—President Hamid Karzai, April 26, 2008.

People hoped the US would come and release them from the violence of the Taliban but all the US does is attack us... The US only blames the Taliban, but the US has the technology. They should hit specific centers of the Taliban, not civilians.
—Afghan farmer speaking to Human Rights Watch, July 25, 2007.








As a result of OEF and ISAF airstrikes in 2006, 116 Afghan civilians were killed in 13 bombings. In 2007, Afghan civilian deaths were nearly three times higher: 321 Afghan civilians were killed in 22 bombings, while hundreds more were injured. In 2007, more Afghan civilians were killed by airstrikes than by US and NATO ground fire. In the first seven months of 2008, the latest period for which data is available, at least 119 Afghan civilians were killed in 12 airstrikes. (See charts on page 14.)

These figures do not include the airstrike on August 22, 2008 in the village of Azizabad, where many civilians were killed in airstrikes in support of an OEF operation. Although the total number of dead was disputed at the time of writing, the political fallout was significant. The Afghan government ordered its ministries of foreign affairs and defense to review the presence of foreign troops and regulate their presence with a status of forces agreement, negotiate a possible end to airstrikes on civilian targets, uncoordinated house searches, and illegal detention of Afghan civilians.