Taliban call for joint inquiry into civilian Afghan deaths considered (by the UN and NATO)

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

UN and Nato cautiously consider proposal, which follows reports of high levels of civilian deaths caused by insurgents -

Jon Boone in Kabul -
Monday August 16 2010 18.17 BST -

NATO and the United Nations are cautiously considering a Taliban proposal to set up a joint commission to investigate allegations of civilians being killed and wounded in the conflict in Afghanistan, diplomats in Kabul have told the Guardian.

The Taliban overture, which came in a http://alemarah-iea.com/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1181:response-of-zabihullah-mujahid-the-spokesman-of-islamic-emirate-of-afghanistan-about-civilian-casual&catid=4:statements&Itemid=4">statement posted on its website, will revive a divisive debate about whether to conduct any formal talks with insurgents who are responsible for the majority of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, and whose assassination campaign now kills one person a day on average.

The Taliban statement called for the establishment of a body including members from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, UN human rights investigators, Nato and the Taliban. "The stated committee should (be) given a free hand to survey the affected areas as well as people in order to collect the precise information and the facts and figures and disseminate its findings worldwide," the Taliban said.

One human rights organisation has already thrown its support behind the joint commission plan, which echoes a similar idea floated four years ago.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/16/taliban-afghan-civilian-deaths-nato-un

[GodlessBiker]

1. Fuck the Taliban! They stone people for being in love. They can go fuck themselves.

And fuck them for pretending to be concerned about civilians being killed.

[cosmicone]

6. +1000

[Enrique]

2. no American politician will be able to endorse this

the Taliban are pure evil, not human, they cut off that woman's nose on Time Magazine.

[maxsolomon]

4. Karzai can endorse it

and we can get out of the way.

[Phil The Cat]

5. We made the Taliban!

If we had minded our own business in 1979, Afghanistan would be a colony of Russia and they would have wiped out the extremists and brought peace, atheism, and socialism to the region!

But No! We had to ally with the fundie Pashtun islamists and the Mujahadeen, and look where it got us! Damn you, Carter and Reagan! Damn you, Clinton and Bush!

[SILVER__FOX52]

3. This is not going to happen, sadly...........

because our Military are killing civilians by the boatload. The Taliban want to leverage that fact through this commission. The sad part is that we, simply, should no longer be there and we wouldn't be killing, anybody. America or the American people, that is, better wakeup to this bullshit, pretty soon. We are spending Trillions of dollars for Foreign War and the American people are dying on the vine.

[cosmicone]

7. The Taliban have a much bigger PR problem than NATO

so I'm sure this will go nowhere.