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Bombing Afghanistan: Where Have All the Photos Gone
By sibel edmonds (about the author) Page 1 of 2 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Sibel Edmonds - Writer
Mounting Civilian Casualties "Silently
The
latest bombing in Afghanistan killed at least nine Afghan civilians,
including six children. Here are a few excerpts from the report:
“Nine
civilians including six children were killed in a NATO air strike
targeting a Taliban position in restive southern Afghanistan, the
provincial governor's office said on Thursday.”Six children and three
women were killed and another three civilian men were wounded," he
said.”
"
“Ehsanullah, an elder from Khoshal village,
where the strike took place, earlier told AFP that Haji Kot Aka's house
was hit late Wednesday."They had four guests at home when the bombing
took place. The bomb killed Aka, his wife, four children and three of
the guests. One of the guests was wounded," he said.
Civilian
casualties are a sensitive issue in Afghanistan, creating a rift
between President Hamid Karzai's government and international forces as
well as resentment on the ground against foreign troops.”Here is a section from my op-ed piece last May on Mr. Obama's presidency and the mounting casualties in Afghanistan:
reporton May 15, 2009:
“The
number of civilians killed by the American air strikes in Farah
Province last week may never be fully known. But villagers, including
two girls recovering from burn wounds, described devastation that
officials and human rights workers are calling the worst episode of
civilian casualties in eight years of war in Afghanistan.”
The
report also includes the disagreement over the exact number of
‘Civilian Casualties' in Afghanistan by our military airstrike:
“Government
officials have accepted handwritten lists compiled by the villagers of
147 dead civilians. An independent Afghan human rights group said it
had accounts from interviews of 117 dead. American officials say that
even 100 is an exaggeration but have yet to issue their own count.”
Does
it really matter - the difference between 147 and 117 or just 100 when
it comes to children, grandmothers"innocent lives lost in a war with no
well-defined objectives or plans? If for some it indeed does matter,
then here is a more specific and detailedreport:
“A
copy of the government's list of the names, ages and father's names of
each of the 140 dead was obtained by Reuters earlier this week. It
shows that 93 of those killed were children -- the youngest eight days
old -- and only 22 were adult males.”
Maybe releasing the
photographs of the nameless unrepresented victims of these airstrikes
should be as important as those of torture. Because, from what I see,
they and their loss of lives have been reduced to some petty number to
fight about.
"
Now I am going to ask the same
question: Where are these photographs in the no-coverage coverage of
Afghan casualties by our simply despicable mainstream media? Why don't
they show us the real ugly face of our aimless, objective-less, but
nonetheless vicious assault tagged as a War on Terror in Afghanistan?
Remember this picture from the Vietnam War?
See the image here
The
picture above, and many similar pictures and war footage, helped shape
our public opinion in regard to another senseless war and vicious
assaults on civilians. It helped open our people's eyes to the real
horrors of war. It led to mounting pressure from our people demanding
an end to these atrocities.
Well, after searching and
searching, and searching more I found only a couple of pictures
depicting the real face of our war in Afghanistan. For reasons I am
sure you all are aware of our corporate media-Government Joint Venture,
and in fact many pseudo alternative ones, don't want our public to see
these pictures, since they would speak more than a thousand words and
help shape opinions again.
Here is one of the ‘real faces' of our war in Afghanistan:
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