response of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Reaction
to the UN Report on Civilian and Children’s Casualties in Afghanistan
Rabi-ul-Awwal 13, 1432 A.H, Thursday, February 17, 2011
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful.
Banki Moon, Secretary General, UNO, has said that 1,795
children have been killed or injured during attacks of
Mujahideen and operations of Americans in the past two years.
But as usual, he has blamed Mujahideen for the most part of
the casualties. The UNO report also mentions an
unsubstantiated incident which was circulated by some
colonialism- related media outlets in June last year, claiming
that Taliban had executed a 7 year old boy on charges of
spying in Sangin district of Helmand province.
While leveling these charges against the Mujahideen, Banki
Moon, has claimed that a reduction has been witnessed in
civilian and children casualties during Americans’ operations.
Furthermore, he has applauded the signing of action plan with
the Kabul stooge administration against recruitment of
children in army and police.
We strongly condemn the two-faced policy of the UNO which is
clear from its above-mentioned assertions. Meanwhile, we
support any action aimed at protecting life of civilians, old
men, women and children. We also remind Banki Moon, UN
Secretary General that we are followers of an order and a law
which was bestowed on humanity as a great gift of the mercy of
God through the Holy and beloved Prophet of God Mohammad(
peace be upon him) at the occasion of Haj-ul-Widaa 1400 years
ago. Then darkness was prevalent all over the world and man
hardly knew the word of human rights.
It is a pity that this world body is
playing politics now in this 21st century under the name of
protection of human rights and distorts facts in order to
please Washington. Therefore, to elucidate the matter further,
the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan wants to present the
following points before the UNO and the international
community:
1. Who attacked the wedding ceremony in Dehrawood,
Uruzgan: a funeral in Azizabad, Herat; a wedding ceremony in
Shinwar, Ningarhar; a shrine visitors in Paktika; passengers
in Paktia and a congregation attendees in Zadran? Were they
the Taliban or the invading Americans who did this?. Haven’t
hundreds of children and civilians lost their lives in these
gruesome events? Have you raised this issue?
2. Has the Islamic Emirate not announced its readiness
to the world in clear terms that let’s constitute a joint
commission to pinpoint the perpetrators and then punish them .
Why you are still silent on this issue and are dodging to
shoulder the task?
3. Did not the American National Intelligence Council
dropped the existing ground realities in Afghanistan to
include them in their revised estimate report which published
in December on demand of General Petraeus, fearing it will
contradict his claims of success against Taliban and that the
Mujahideen were responsible for civilian casualties? Are your
remarks not part and parcel of this policy and do not they
support this trend?
4. Isn’t your assertion part of the general policy
devised by James Clapper, director of the American National
Intelligence, CIA and General Petreaus last year, which
emphasizes that American troops casualties be reported much
less than the actual number and their human rights violations
be kept secret from the knowledge of the public. Contrarily,
the casualties of Mujahideen should be exaggerated and various
blames of human rights violations should be leveled against
them. Following this, the criticisms by Human Rights Watch in
New York, World Amnesty International and the so-called human
rights commission of Afghanistan, leveling charges of civilian
and children casualties against Mujahideen are a clear
indicator that those entities are working for the American
colonialism under the umbrella of protection of human rights.
5. Why your good self don’t bother to raise the issue
of murder of 150 civilians in Kunduz 1.5 years ago who lost
their lives as a result of bombardment of American jet
fighters? Why you do not condemn the incident? All people are
aware of the perpetrators.
6. The UN report also has pointed to a claim that
Taliban executed a seven year old boy in Sangin district of
Helmand province in June last year. At that time, the Islamic
Emirate sent an investigation team to the area which reported
after a complete investigation that no event of that kind had
ever happened in the said locality i.e. Sarwan Kalla. Neither
the enemy had carried out any operation or bombardment which
would have necessitated arrestment of any one on suspicion of
spying. Furthermore, we would like to point out that as per
the prevailing laws of the Islamic Emirate, no commander or a
judge is allowed execute any one by themselves. Complete
investigation and approval of the leadership is must in such
cases. Is this claim not similar to the claim of the Time
Magazine which published a picture of a young Afghan girl
whose nose had been cut off. The magazine claimed, Taliban had
done this but later it was proved that Taliban had no role in
the incident. Even the reporter who reported it first says it
was a family criminal case. Similarly, the family of the girl
says, Taliban are not involved but America politicized the
issue for attainment of well-known goals.
7. During the reign of the Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan, the esteemed Amirul Momineen (may Allah protect
him) instructed ministry of defense and home affairs to take
action against recruitment of children in their units and
contingements and do not use them at the front line of war.
These instructions are still operative. But it is pity and
irony that you signed an agreement with the Kabul Stooge
Administration against recruitment of children in the army
after the passage of one decade of war in Afghanistan. It
raises the question that why you so-called protectors of human
rights postponed this crucial issue of human rights for ten
years to sign?.
8. The UNO report has also said
that Mujahideen should respect principles of Geneva Convention
about war. We have been urging from the beginning that all
parties of the war should abide by the recognized laws of the
war. But again which principle of the Geneva Convention allows
America to keep thousands of innocent detainees in Bagram,
Kandahar and Guantanamo? Which law of human rights says to
deprive them of access to self-defense and keep them
imprisoned without trial? Have the Special Forces not
established brutal cells of detainment in every military base
where they brutally torture them and many of them have
succumbed to the torture and lost their lives. Did the famous
Jihadi personality Moalim Awal Gul not die in Guantanamoi this
month because of torture? Which human rights law was that to
keep him in Guantanamo without trial for the past nine years.
9. The Afghans are awake now. They can tell the White
from the Black. The people witnessed the essence of years
slogans of democracy, women’s and children’s rights, freedom
of speech with their own eyes. Repetitions of these slogans
only damage you. Put and end to this drama. Leave the land of
the Afghans to the Afghans.
The Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan