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| 15 Afghan Civilians Killed in Ghor | |
| 2014-07-27 | |
| [Tolo News] At least 15 Afghan civilians, including three women and a child, were killed when "criminals linked to foreign intelligence" stopped three passenger vans early Friday morning and killed each one-by-one in the remote province of Ghor, locals officials said. The 15 killed were separated by the gunnies after their national ID cards were checked, Provincial Governor Sayed Anwar Rahmati told TOLOnews. An adviser to the provincial governor was also among those killed, said Rahmati. Local officials said the victims of the shootout belonged to the Hazara ethnic minority. "Four of them were members of one family," said Governor Rahmati. "A groom and his bride and the groom's mother and sister were brutally killed."
Ghor Police Chief Gen. Fahim Qayem said an investigation has begun to find out why selected passengers were killed. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the suspected Taliban Lion of Islams, blamed for most of the civilian causalities, have not yet commented about the incident. Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... expressed his condolences to the victims families in a statement released by the Presidential Palace. Karzai illustrated with strong words the condemnation of the inhuman killings of the innocent lives, calling it an unforgivable act against humanity and religious values. Two weeks ago, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expressed its concerns about a 24 percent increase of civilian casualties in 2014 in Afghanistan. Ghor governor called on the central government to deploy additional security forces to his province amid an increase in insecurity there. | |
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