Afghans rally against rising civilian killings

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Afghans protest against the recent killings of
10 civilians allegedly by coalition forces

Afghans rally against rising civilian killings

Wednesday 30 December 2009
by Tom Mellen

Afghan students have rallied in Jalalabad and threatened to "take up guns instead of pens and fight occupation forces" if the Karzai regime fails to stop the indiscriminate killing of civilians by occupation troops.

Hundreds of university students blocked main roads in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province to protest over the latest deaths - 10 civilians, mostly schoolchildren, who were apparently gunned down execution-style by US special forces in the Narang district of Kunar province on Saturday.

They burnt an effigy of the US president and shouted "death to Obama" and "death to foreign forces."

Student organiser Safiullah Aminzai said: "Our demonstration is against those foreigners who have come to our country - they have not brought democracy to Afghanistan but they are killing our religious scholars and children."

Activists from the youth wing of Jamiat Eslah, or the Afghan Society for Social Reform and Development, reported that a protest was also planned in Kabul against the "killing of civilians, especially the recent killing of students in Kunar by foreign forces."

The head of a presidential delegation investigating the deaths said yesterday that the team has concluded that civilians - including schoolchildren - were killed in the attack, rejecting NATO claims that the victims were guerillas.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/85036

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