Atrocities Against Civilians in Afghanistan: A Troubling Timetable

It is worth noting that even General McChrystal, head of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, acknowledges that U.S. forces have killed civilians who meant them no harm.

Those families and individuals that General McChrystal refers to should be our primary concern. We should try to imagine the sorrow and horror afflicting each individual whose tragic story is told in the "timetable" of atrocities committed against innocent people.

How can we compensate people who have endured three decades of warfare, whose land has been so ravaged that, according to noted researcher Alfred McCoy, it would cost 34 billion dollars to restore their agricultural infrastructure.

We should notify our elected representatives that the 33 billion dollar supplemental funding bill sought by the Obama administration to pay for U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq could be directed toward helping Afghanistan replant its orchards, replenish its flocks, and rebuild its irrigation systems. We should insist on an end to atrocities like those which follow.

The list below describes, in part, the suffering and agony that people in Afghanistan have endured since April, 2009.

Atrocities Against Civilians in Afghanistan: A Troubling Timetable