Like last year, UNAMA office in Kabul once again published its yearly report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan for 2013.
The composed report once again unfairly attributes 74% of civilian casualties as being caused by the Mujahideen with 11% attributed to the Kabul regime security apparatus which includes Arbaki forces (local militias) and 2% to the foreign occupying forces.
It must be made clear that these baseless and far from reality reports are directly produced by the US embassy and then published under the name of United Nations.
We strongly condemn this biased report by UNAMA. The esteemed Amir ul Mumineen (Commander of the Faithful) has given strict guidelines to our Mujahideen for preventing civilian casualties. Despite our operations for the current year having increased and covering vast regions however extreme caution was taken and civilian casualties were kept to a minimum as compared to the past.
The true causes of civilian casualties in our nation can be summarized below:
Blind and retaliatory airstrikes by the foreign forces, night raids, indiscriminate firing after attacks; breaking into homes of civilians by police and army in form of search operations, aggravating children and adults, looting homes, stealing valuables and jewelry of women from homes; killing of civilians by Arbakis in all corners of the country, oppression, transgressing against the life, wealth and honor of people, martyring innocent civilians due to personal feuds, the savagery and barbarism of Commander Shujai from Uruzgan province is not hidden from anyone – who has single handedly martyred over 200 civilians.
UNAMA always publishes reports biased towards the Americans under the guise of a neutral organ but our nation sees everything with their own eyes; they see who the perpetrators of savagery are, they see who kills and bombs – the latest example of which is the incident in Siyah Gerd – and who killed little children in Kunar under label of Al Qaida!
If UNAMA even had the slightest concern for civilian casualties and did not merely use this subject as a tool against Mujahideen then it would have whole heartedly decided on impartiality and would have accepted the offer for preventing civilian casualties put forward by Mujahideen to UNAMA three years prior.
The failure of UNAMA to give a timely answer to our initiative made it clear that UNAMA is not actually concerned about civilian casualties but rather only wants to help the American invaders in their propaganda war.
On top of considering the latest UNAMA civilian casualties report to be completely the other way around, we reaffirm our commitment to take care of the life of civilians as part of our Islamic mission, our religious obligation and Afghan sympathy towards our oppressed nation. Taking care of the life of civilians in war is our responsibility more than that of the Americans which our nation can testify to in our actions.
Zabihullah Mujahid
Spokesman of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
08/04/1435 Hijri Lunar
19/11/1392 Hijri Solar 08/02/2014 Gregorian
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