Afghans killed in protest over NATO night raids (guess we better bomb ourselves)

[Hannah Bell]

At least a dozen Afghan civilians were shot to death and another 85 wounded in mass protests Wednesday over a NATO night raid that killed four members of a family in the country’s northern Takhar province.

Those killed in the raid, two men and two women, reportedly all members of the same family, are only the latest in a series of unarmed civilian victims, including children, who have lost their lives in similar incidents in recent weeks.

A crowd, which at its start was estimated by local journalists at 2,000 people, many of them carrying sticks, axes and shovels, marched into the center of Taloqan, the provincial capital, carrying the bodies of the victims killed in the raid the night before.

The protest, which included many students, is reported to have grown to include as many as 15,000 people. The protesters chanted “Death to America” and demanded justice for those killed.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/afgh-m19.shtml

[demosincebirth]

1. Seems it's kind of slanted reporting.

[Hannah Bell]

2. of course it is. but the people are verifiably dead.

killed in a peaceful protest in a country we're currently running through proxies.

so i guess we better bomb ourselves.

cause that's what we do when politicians kill peaceful protesters, isn't it?

[demosincebirth]

4. How about suicide bombers who kill innocent people who are just going

about their usual daily chores. Do you condemn them? Of course you do.

[howard112211]

3. Let's see: Protesters killed in Afghanistan. Protesters killed in Gaza. Both no big deal.

But protesers killed in Libya: Time for regime change.

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