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From Dutch news agency ANP:
11 August 2008
An attack by coalition forces in the south Afghan province Oruzgan has killed five civilians and 25 Taliban, according to ISAF.
Survivors say that the warplanes of ISAF dropped a bomb on a cluster of homes, killing the eight civilians. According to the Afghan police they were a child, an old man and teenagers.
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US-led troops kill women in Afghanistan
August 8, 2008 – 8:25PM
US-led coalition troops “inadvertently” killed four women and a child in a gun battle in central Afghanistan that also left several militants dead, the force said.
http://news.theage.com.au/world/usled-troops-kill-women-in-afghanistan-20080808-3sah.html
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Afghan officials: civilians may be among 11 killed
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Airstrikes and clashes north of Kabul have killed 11 people, some of whom might be civilians, Afghan officials said Sunday. In the south, five civilians died when their vehicle hit a mine, police said.
More than 10 people were killed Saturday in the clash near Kapisa, about 60 kilometers (40 miles) north of Kabul, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. The ministry did not say if those killed were militants or civilians.
The provincial deputy governor Rahimullah Safi, said that 11 people were killed and they were all civilians. Three others were wounded after an airstrike in the village of Juibar in the restless Tagab valley of Kapisa province, Safi said.
But the provincial police chief, Matiullah Safi, says it was not yet clear if the dead were militants or civilians.
The U.S.-led coalition says there were airstrikes in the region, but there are no reports of civilian casualties.
The airstrikes followed a clash between NATO-led troops and militants, said Rahimullah Safi.
‘There was a report that the insurgents were meeting in the village, and foreign soldiers surrounded the area,’ Safi said. ‘There was fighting in the village and then helicopters and fighter jets came,’ he said.
The airstrikes and clashes damaged three or four homes, Safi said.
‘The village elders called me to say they were going to bury their dead, and ask NATO not to bomb,’ Safi, the deputy governor said.
Civilian deaths are a sore point between the Afghan government and foreign troops here. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pleaded with the U.S. and NATO to avoid killing innocents and undermining already tenuous popular support for his government.
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Afghan families go public with rape allegations, could force crackdown
Published Monday August 11th, 2008
Heidi Vogt, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan – Ali Khan braved death threats and public scorn to out the powerful men he accuses of gang-raping his 12-year-old niece.
Now he says it is up to Afghanistan’s president to prove he can prosecute her assailants and their warlord protectors in the country’s north, where President Hamid Karzai’s government holds little sway.
Rape – a crime long hidden in Afghanistan by victims fearing a life of scorn – is getting a public airing in this conservative Islamic country. In recent weeks, several outraged families have appeared on nightly news shows, demanding justice while sharing heartbreaking stories of sexual assaults on teenage daughters.
Government officials say at least five rapes have been reported in the past four months, though they and women’s rights groups say any reported statistics likely fall far short of reality.
The Interior Ministry has announced a crackdown on sexual assault, one of the first times the government has acknowledged a problem long dealt with as privately as possible. On Sunday, President Hamid Karzai called for rapists to face “the country’s most severe punishment.”
After families appeared on TV, Karzai met with Khan and another man whose daughter was raped in Sari Pul. The president promised punishment as he “hugged my niece and said she was also his daughter and cried,” Khan said.
But it could prove a formidable task for Karzai, whose government has little influence outside the capital. In northern provinces like Sari Pul, warlords command private armies and well-connected criminals regularly bribe their way out of prison.
“Some of them (criminals) are taken to the jails, but because they belong to the commanders, they pay money and are set free,” said Parween Hakim of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
One of the men accused of attacking Khan’s niece was convicted of rape a month ago and sentenced to nearly 20 years in jail. But Hakim said she has never seen an assailant serve more than six months.
Still, there are signs of progress. The government fired five top police officials in Sari Pul for negligence in the two cases.
Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary said officials are taking action because the five rape reports must mean other assaults are being committed. But he calls the few public cases a hopeful sign.
“Families are trusting the security forces and reporting these incidents,” Bashary said.
Khan said his niece was raped when five men broke into the family home two months ago. They beat his sister and her husband and forced themselves on the girl. The father remains hospitalized.
Khan says he’s received death threats since going public, and his sister and niece have not left a guarded Kabul hotel room – provided as a safe house by the government – for two weeks.
The girl’s mother recognized two of their attackers as associates of a provincial lawmaker, Khan said.
The lawmaker’s son is one of those accused of involvement in the rape of Sayed Noorullah Jafery’s 13-year-old daughter in Sari Pul in February.
Both Khan and Jafery say they can identify the girls’ attackers, but that the powerful family is shielding the men.
Calls to numbers held by Paunda Khan, the lawmaker accused of protecting the attackers, went unanswered. The head of Sari Pul provincial council, Abdul Ghani, said Paunda Khan had done nothing to obstruct justice.
In both cases, police initially refused to take down the families’ accusations – a situation the UN’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, said is typical in a region where police are more likely to answer to warlords than to Kabul.
“It’s because of the impunity given to these warlords for such a long period of time,” Coomaraswamy said.
If the rapists continue to escape punishment, it could push a region to reconsider the liberties given to women since the fall of the Taliban regime. Even Khan suggested that the easing of Taliban-era restrictions that kept women at home might be making girls easier prey.
“These days all these young girls are going to school, and coming out of their houses. These criminals chase after them,” he said. “When these criminals come, they commit rape as well.”
Jafery says he’s lost confidence in the system because while the lawmaker’s son has been arrested, he is being tried as a juvenile after producing papers showing his age as 16. Jafery says the man is in his early 20s.
Another family that went public with a rape last year has since been shamed into fleeing the country, according to Hakim of the women’s rights group. And in another northern province, Kunduz, police say a man arrested for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl escaped last week after three days in jail. He had not been tried.
But Khan says he will wait for Karzai. He had to talk his sister’s family out of collective suicide, persuading them to travel to Kabul to demand government action.
“This is like a revolt against the warlords by my family,” he said.
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Associated Press Writer Rahim Faiez contributed to this report.
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