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added 2007 Tue May 8 22:39:06 by TimALoftis
A U.S. Army commander Tuesday said the military has apologized to Afghans whose relatives were killed in March when U.S. troops fired on them after a suicide attack.
added 2007 Wed May 2 23:09:41 by populist
On his News and Comment radio show this morning, ABC Radio Networks host Paul Harvey said "the media should put a stop" to labeling "women and children" killed in war as "civilians."
added 2007 Wed Apr 25 13:13:19 by Aidenag
The United Nations rebuked Iraq's government on Wednesday for refusing to disclose politically sensitive civilian casualty figures in what it described as a "rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis."
added 2007 Thu Apr 12 20:36:58 by populist
"Since US troops first set foot in Afghanistan in 2001, the defence department has gone to unprecedented lengths to control and suppress information about the human costs of war," said Anthony Romero, the executive director of the ACLU.
added 2007 Fri Mar 30 20:57:58 by Macondo
This is a very graphic collection of photos of civilian victims of this war. (Mostly children.) If you are a very sensitive person or have small children while opening the pictures (20 pages) be cautious. Is this "Collateral damage" and Iraqi people is better now because we gave them freedom ?
added 2007 Tue Mar 27 19:10:11 by populist
British government officials have backed the methods used by scientists who concluded that more than 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion, the BBC reported yesterday.
added 2007 Fri Mar 23 21:02:28 by TimALoftis
Marines accused of shooting and killing civilians after a suicide bombing in Afghanistan are under U.S. investigation, and their entire unit has been ordered to leave the country early, officials said Friday.
added 2007 Sat Mar 10 20:26:51 by populist
American soldiers were accused Friday of opening fire on a car carrying a family in the Baghdad district of Sadr City, killing a man and his two young daughters and wounding his son.
added 2007 Mon Mar 5 3:50:41 by populist
Thousands of angry demonstrators took to the streets in Afghanistan yesterday after US forces were involved in a panicked shooting which left 16 civilians dead and 23 injured.

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added 2007 Fri Feb 23 11:02:00 by trojanhorse
The U.S. military said on Friday it was investigating whether civilians, including two children, were killed during a fierce gunbattle in Ramadi on Wednesday that ended with U.S. air strikes destroying several buildings.
added 2007 Tue Jan 30 15:13:40 by TimALoftis
More than 1,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2006, most of them as a result of attacks by the Taliban and other anti-government forces in the country's unstable south, a rights group said Tuesday.
added 2007 Tue Jan 16 13:11:56 by Aidenag
More than 34,000 civilians were killed in violence in Iraq during 2006, a UN human rights official has said. The figure is nearly three times higher than calculations previously made on the basis of Iraqi interior ministry statistics for 2006.
added 2006 Sun Dec 24 22:16:50 by unknown user
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added 2006 Fri Aug 18 10:31:56 by karam
They're digging them up by the hour, the swelling death toll of the Lebanon war.
added 2006 Wed Aug 16 19:11:12 by TimALoftis
A U.S. general will decide next month whether to court-martial four U.S. soldiers for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her family in March, a U.S. military spokeswoman said on Wednesday.