News stories by Shah Noori*
U.N. Tally Excluded Most Afghan Civilian Deaths in Night Raids
- Inter Press Service
A July United Nations report asserting that only 30 civilians died in targeted raids in Afghanistan during the first six months of 2011 reflected only a very small fraction of night raids in which civilians were killed, according to officials of the independent Afghan commission which had co-produced the 2010 report on civilian casualties with the U.N. Mission.
U.N. Reported Only a Fraction of Civilian Deaths from U.S. Raids
- Inter Press Service
The number of civilians killed in U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids last year was probably several times higher than the figure of 80 people cited in the U.N. report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan published last week, an IPS investigation has revealed.
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