“War crimes of foreign invaders and their internal stooge forces (May 2015)” 

Compiled by S. Saeed.

On 1^st May, the fifteen years old son of an ordinary villager named Haji Abdul Bari was taken away as prisoner during a raid by the internal stooge soldiers in the ‘Baghtu’ village of ‘Shah Joi’ district in ‘Zabul’ province.

On 4^th May, the internal security forces opened fire on a motor-cycle in ‘Bar-Takht’ area of ‘Shindand’ district of ‘Herat’ province in which a woman was martyred and a man was seriously injured.

On 4^th May, after a heavy fighting with Taliban in ‘Diwana Khana’ area in ‘Almaar’ district of ‘Faryaab’ province, four children and a Mulla Imam (the one who leads congregational prayers) were injured in the indiscriminate mortar shelling of the internal stooge soldiers.

On 5^th May, a child was martyred when a house was hit by a mortar shell fired by the internal incompetent soldiers in ‘Shoraab’ village of ‘Bala-Baluk’ district of ‘Farah’ province.

On 7^th May, the foreign invading soldiers opened fire on a group of people offering prayers in ‘Gujjar Khail’ area of ‘Bagram’ district in ‘Parwaan’ province in which one person was badly wounded. The indigenous people protested against this felony of the invading forces and blocked the main ‘Kapisa-Parwaan’ road for traffic for some time while chanting slogans of “Death on America”.

On 9^th May, an ordinary countryman was martyred by the internal stooge soldiers in the main bazaar of ‘Shindand’ district of ‘Herat’ province. On the following day, the people protested in the main ‘Shindan’ bazaar in retaliation to this incident and demanded the earliest possible trial of the perpetrators.

On 10^th May, Malak Naqibullah and two women of his family were martyred and tens of civilians were incarcerated in ‘Khairmani’ and ‘Zawari’ areas of ‘Khogyani’ district of ‘Nangarhar’ province in a joint military operation of foreign invaders and their mercenary Afghan soldiers. According to the local eye-witnesses, a substantial amount of their valuables were taken away by these avaricious soldiers from their homes during these operations.

On 13^th May, two ordinary people, while going hunting, were martyred and another one was wounded in the indiscriminate bombing of the brutal foreign invaders inside ‘Ambeer’ area of ‘Karghaee’ district in ‘Laghman’ province.

On 14^th May, an ordinary countryman was martyred by the internal mercenary soldiers in the suburbs of ‘Jurm’ district of ‘Badakhshan’ province.

On 14^th May, the people of ‘Shilgar’ district in ‘Ghazni’ province told media that that the dwellers of nearly fourteen villages of this district were compelled for migration by the notorious local Arbaki militiamen. They added that their houses are frequently raided by these arrogant militiamen, they are tortured by various lame excuses and the young ones are incarcerated.

According the local people, seventeen young people were detained from ‘Shahbazwal’ village in the last few days by these Arbaki militiamen, eighteen from ‘Khaz’ village, sixteen from ‘Muradi’ village, fourteen from ‘Atal’ village, eleven from ‘Ghola’ village, twelve from ‘Miadadwal’ village, ten from ‘Dabli’ village, ten from ‘Aaqil’ village, fourteen from ‘Gulo’ village, nine from ‘Khushal’ village, twelve from ‘Rustam’ village, thirteen from ‘Manaar’ village and eighteen from ‘Nazarwaal’ village. All of them were imprisoned either in the center of the above mentioned district or shifted to various other military-posts.

The local civilian added that when they visited the district to get their sons released, they were told by ‘Lutfullah’ and ‘Sultan Jasu’, the commanders of these notorious Arbaki militiamen, that either they should pick arms and support them (the militia forces) or they should abandon the area as soon as possible.

On 15^th May, three children were martyred while two women and two men were wounded in the indiscriminate artillery shelling of the internal stooge soldiers in ‘Khanashin’ and ‘Astarab’ areas of ‘Warduj’ district of ‘Badakhshan’ province. Four civilian houses were demolished in this blind shelling too.

On 16^th May, three children were injured in the random mortar shelling of the internal stooge soldiers in the ‘Zaimni’ village of ‘Zeolat’ area in ‘Jalraiz’ district of ‘Maidan Wardak’ province.

On 17^th May, a taxi driver was martyred by the soldiers of General Abdul Raziq near a money exchange market of ‘Kandahar’ city in ‘Kandahar’ province.

On 18^th May, an ordinary civilian was martyred and several others were injured in the indiscriminate bombing of the foreign brutal invaders in ‘Shash-Qala’ area of ‘Said-Abad’ district in ‘Maidan Wardak’ province. According to the local eye-witnesses, the area was bombed when an armored vehicle of the foreign forces was torn apart in a mine blast.

On 20^th May, the people of central ‘Baghlan’ district of ‘Baghlan’ province told media that nearly ten persons were martyred and twenty eight others were injured in the military operations of the coalition government forces going on for the last twenty days in this area. They added that women and children were also included in the martyred and injured people.

On 21^st May, three ordinary way-farers were martyred in the indiscriminate bombing of the foreign invaders in ‘Katar Almazo’ area of ‘Watapur’ district of ‘Kunar’ province.

On 21^st May, a woman and two children were injured in the artillery shelling of the internal incompetent forces in ‘Muqbal Ghunji’ area of ‘Patan’ district in ‘Paktia’ province.

On 27^th May, two women and two young girls were martyred in the indiscriminate mortar shelling of the internal mercenary forces in ‘Karaiz’ and ‘Old city’ areas of ‘Ghogyani’ district of ‘Ghazni’ province.

On 31^st May, the internal stooge soldiers raided ‘Toor Khail’ village in ‘Baraki Barak’ district of ‘Logar’ province. They searched the civilian houses and inflicted financial losses on the people. Later on, one teacher and two students were martyred and two women, one child and one white-bearded man were injured when a residence and a school were hit by the mortar shelling of these incompetent internal in-security forces.

Sources: (BBC, Radio Liberty, Afghan Islamic News Agency, Pazwak, Khabaryal website, Larawbar, Nunn.Asia and Benawa websites.)

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.