How many war crimes will NATO forces have to commit in Afghanistan and Pakistan before the good people of Canada demand that this misadventure be terminated and our troops brought home?
On September 4, 2009 two fuel trucks were disabled by Taliban fighters. in Kunar Province When local people arrived in large numbers to take some of the fuel, German forces called for a US air strike. 142 people were incinerated. Video tapes from the US F15 jet showed most of the people were unarmed civilians filling their containers with fuel.
On Dec 27, 2009American led troops raided a home in Kunar Province, dragged eight school children from their beds and gunned them down execution style. Their ages were 11 to 18.
On February 12, 2010 American and Afghan forces raided a home during a party and killed five people including a local police commander, a district attorney, two pregnant mothers and a teen-aged girl.
A report by the New American Foundation speculates that US drone strikes in Pakistan have killed between 700 and 1000 people, one third of them civilians.
Surely, anyone with a heart to rend and a few viable brain cells to reason with, will have to conclude that all of these killings are crimes against humanity. We can’t wait twenty more months before leaving Afghanistan. We must demand that our troops be brought home now.
Bev Currie 
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