KABUL – Western nations, including Canada, waging an imperialist war in Afghanistan continue slaughtering children and innocent people with their bombs.
A NATO airstrike killed eight children in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday.
The president “strongly condemned the aerial bombing by foreign troops that killed a number of children in Nejrab district” northeast of Kabul on Wednesday, said a statement from his office.
“Based on information by (the) provincial governor, as a result of an air strike conducted on February 8 in Geyawa village in Nejrab district of Kapisa province, eight children were killed,” the statement said.
Karzai had assigned a delegation “to launch an all-out probe into the Nato bombing”, it added.
A Nato spokesman said he could “confirm there has been a situation. A joint assessment team went there to identify the situation”.
The Afghan president, who has a strained relationship with his Western allies, has regularly condemned Nato for civilian deaths in the decade-long war against Taliban insurgents fighting to overthrow him.
A record number civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2011 — the fifth straight year the death toll has risen, the United Nations reported last week.
A total of 3,021 civilians died up eight percent from 2,790 in 2010, the UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in its annual report.
