KABUL (Xinhua) – Scores of the families of war victims in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday called for justice and demanded punishment for those behind the killings of Afghans.
With about 200 photos and portrays on display in a public park, the participants alleged that thousands of innocent Afghans had been killed mostly by American military forces’ bombardments and the perpetrators should be brought to justice.
“Among the victims’ photos, there are those who were killed by the bombing of the American forces in Shindand districts of Herat and Balablok of Farah in the west and parts of the eastern Kunar province during the presence of the U.S.-led force in Afghanistan,” the organizer of the photo exhibition Weda Ahmad told Xinhua.
Placards and banners that called for a probe into the war crimes of America, NATO and their protégés were posted on the walls of the park, demanding the punishment of those responsible for killing Afghans.
Weda, a women rights activist who is also the head of a non-government agency the Association of Afghans for Justice, alleged that the U.S. airstrikes had killed countless Afghan civilians including innocent women and children during the 20-year U.S.-led occupation in Afghanistan.
She told Xinhua that her association has collected more than 10,000 photos of the war victims that were killed during more than four decades of wars, most of them by American forces operations over the past 20 years.
The 2003 U.S. occupation has triggered a wave of unrest ever since.
In a recent incident, unknown armed men have gunned down a money changer in Herat city, capital of Afghanistan’s western Herat province, provincial police spokesperson Mohmoud Rasouli said Sunday.
“A famous saraf (money changer) Abdul Rahim Sediqi was gunned down by unidentified armed men on Saturday evening,” Rasouli said.
Police operations are underway with no arrests made so far, the police official said. Family members said the money changer was on his way home when he was attacked.