Afghan civilian casualties top 11000 to hit record in 2015

Feb 16, 2016, 15:12

Head of the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom, said such casualties is not to be acceptable.

The report also documented a 37 percent increase in women casualties and a 14 percent increase in child casualties. The year of 2015 was reported as the worst for Afghan civilian casualties. Seventeen percent of all casualties in 2015 were caused by such forces, the report said.

The spike in civilian deaths was attributed to an increase in ground fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces, and suicide bombings and other attacks in major cities carried out by anti-government forces including the Taliban.

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The UNAMA report highlighted large-scale attacks in the capital Kabul, particularly two suicide attacks on August 7 that it said caused 355 civilian casualties, including 43 dead and 312 wounded. "Other children suffered the loss of parents, and increasingly their mothers, sisters, and female role models". The figures are the highest since the United Nations began keeping track in 2009.

Some 17 percent of civilian casualties were unattributed while the rest 4 percent of casualties were caused by explosive remnants of war, according to the report.

The departure of most North Atlantic Treaty Organisation combat troops at the end of 2014 coincided with an increase in attacks by the Taliban, who are seeking to reinstate the strict Islamist rule they established in the 1990s but lost to the United States and its Afghan allies after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Casualties attributed to pro-government forces jumped 28 percent compared to 2014 to account for 17 percent of the total.

Taliban insurgents killed six Afghan security personnel on Saturday in two separate attacks, Afghan officials said.

He quoted the latest Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict produced by the UN Assistance Mission (UNAMA) together with the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). The UNAMA report exposes the Taliban's contempt for the most fundamental principle of worldwide humanitarian law, or the laws of war: the prohibition of deliberate attacks on civilians.

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The report includes a number of recommendations for anti-government elements, the government of Afghanistan, and International Military Forces for parties to "mitigate casualties and protect civilians from harm". "Unprecedented numbers of children were needlessly killed and injured a year ago", said Danielle Bell, the U.N. Director of Human Rights in Afghanistan, according to a release.