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US has total disregard for Afghan civilians: Activist

Friday, 04 November 2016 10:55 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 04 November 2016 10:57 AM ]

This Pentagon photo released on October 7, 2001, shows an F/A-18C Hornet on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson preparing for a strike in Afghanistan. (Photo by AFP)

An airstrike carried out by the so-called US-led military alliance has claimed the lives of at least 30 Afghan civilians, including women and children in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz.

A human rights activist says the United States has “total disregard” for Afghan civilians, adding that it is either deliberately targeting them or it is lying about having smart weapons.

“The United States claims that they have satellites, they have got all sorts of special precautions, they try to minimize civilian deaths but if we look at the record the opposite is the case,” Edward Corrigan told Press TV.

The United States, he said, has lost the war in Afghanistan and it has just created “a failed state” which is another disaster for American foreign policy.

“The Americans can physically occupy a place and control it but as soon as they leave it reverts to the Taliban and the Taliban have not been defeated and many top generals and British generals and such, commanders in chief in Afghanistan have indicated that the war is lost,” he said.

“But a lot of this is the type of tactics that the Americans use. There is this indiscriminate use of weapons that kill civilians, they have destroyed a lot of infrastructure and they have also been working with the warlords,” he added.

Corrigan cited suggestions that the CIA is making tons of money out of the opium trade which was wiped out by the Taliban before the war.

According to the activist, the Americans think they are above the law and they cannot deal with any consequences of killing civilians which is a “brutal, heartless” policy.

“When the Americans kill civilians this is unintended, it is collateral damage, it is an accident, it is not done on purpose, but you cannot keep making accidents and do them all the time continuously which have resulted in tens of thousands of innocent civilians that have been killed by American bombing attacks,” he said.

Afghanistan has been suffering from violence and insecurity since the US and its allies invaded the country in 2001. Taliban were removed from power following the invasion, but they have stepped up their insurgency in recent months, attempting to overrun several provinces.

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