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| CONFLICT KILLS, INJURES 14 CIVILIANS EVERYDAY
Kabul, 12 July 2010: Almost six civilian people were killed and eight were wounded each day in conflictrelated incidents from 1 January to 30 June 2010, Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said today in a mid‐year report on civilian casualties of war.In total, at least 1,074 civilians were killed and over 1,500 were injured in armed violence in the first half of this year; which indicates a slight – 1.3% ‐ increase in the reported number of civilian casualties of warcompared to the same period last year
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ARM's mid-year report on conflict-related civilian casualties in 2010
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| Kandahar Operation Needs Humanitarian Vigilance |
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Kabul, 16 March 2010: As NATO and Afghan forces plan to conduct a major military operation in Kandahar Province in the coming months, ARM calls on UN agencies and other aid organizations to act vigilantly and draw |
| up appropriate humanitarian response planning which should mitigate the most likely humanitarian consequences of the conflict. | | Read More |
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| AIRSTRIKES IN FARAH KILLED ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN CIVILIANS |
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KABUL, May 13 2009 – Aerial bombing by US forces on a village in the Bala Boluk Village of Farah Province, in south-western Afghanistan, killed one hundred seventeen (117) non-combatants, according to independent investigations conducted by (ARM). |
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| Finish off Operation Moshtarak Quickly | | | | | |  | Kabul, 16 February 2010: Afghan and NATO forces must complete their military operation in Helmand’s Nad Ali District soon and help local communities regain access to essential services and resume their normal |
| life, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) requested today. | | Read More | |
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DOSTUM MUST GO TO COURT NOT ARG
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| | |  | Kabul, 25 January 2010: Hamid Karzai has reinstated Abdul Rashid Dostum in a top army post and has asked him to establish a central command unit within the National Security Council of the President’s Office, the Arg. |
| Dostum has been accused of severe and large-scale human rights violations at least over the past two decades. Genenral Dostum’s armed militia, Junbish-e-Milli, has reportedly killed and tortured many civilian communities in Kabul and several northern provinces since early 1990s. Read More
| | | A QUESTION OF LEGITIMACY | | |  | On 2 November 2009 Hamid Karzai was declared the elected President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan by the Independent Elections Commission (IEC) for another five-year term. |
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| The IEC made its controversial decision after the second top presidential candidate, Dr Abdullah, who secured 30.59 percent of the total votes, withdrew from the race accusing the IEC of bias and partiality.. Read More |
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| | IMPUNITY FOR WAR CRIMES MUST END IMMEDIATELY | | | Kabul: 15 September 2009 - Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) hails a long-expected willingness by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to start garnering evidences on war crimes in Afghanistan, and invites the Court to investigate rising civilian casualties. | | Read More |
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| | | | | | CHILDREN SUFFERED THE BRUNT OF WAR CASUALTIES IN 2009 | | | Kabul, 6 January 2010: A sharp rise in violent incidents involving children made 2009 the deadliest year for Afghan children since the ouster of Taliban regime in late 2001. | Over 1,050 children (under 18-year-old) were killed by suicide attacks,air strikes, improvised blasts, explosive remnants of war and cross-fire between warring parties in Afghanistan. | | Read More |
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| Impunity for war crimes must end immediately |
Kabul: 15 September 2009
Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) hails a long-expected willingness by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to start garnering evidences on war crimes in Afghanistan, and invites the Court to investigate rising civilian casualties in the country.
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| Students, teachers and schools are innocent! |
Kabul, 29 July 2009
There is a common consensus that armed violence will increase across Afghanistan in the summer months, most probably into unprecedented levels since the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001. Summers have consistently witnessed. |
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| The winning warloads! |
20 August 2009
MILLIONS OF AFGHANS ARE EXPECTED TO CAST
votes in an ostensibly democratic exercise which is expected not only to elect the future president of the country but to demonstrate that only the people of Afghanistan determine their collective destiny.
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