Summary executions in Afghanistan
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Philip Alston, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, complained this week that there are large numbers of “extrajudicial” killings in Afghanistan, in plain English, murders of civilians. While most of these are laid at the doorstep of the Taliban, the U.S.-led international military forces in the country have murdered as many as 200 Afghan civilians so far this year.
This is not a new development; there were already reports of summary executions of unarmed Afghan prisoners by American forces as early as 2002. I’m guessing their families are unimpressed by our love of democracy.
