His responsibility for the death of a total of 12 civilians – all in Afghanistan– during 2021 he admitted on Tuesday (26/9) o US Army he admitted in a report released by the Pentagon.
“The Ministry of Defense estimates that 12 civilians killed and 5 others injured in 2021 in US military operations” is pointed out in this annual report which has been required by Congress since 2018, part of which remains classified.
All the civilians killed were in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon has already acknowledged responsibility for the deaths of 10 members of the same family, including seven children, during the chaotic US withdrawal from Kabul in August 2021.
In the report, as reported by the Athens News Agency, it is specified that one civilian was killed in an American strike on January 8, 2021 in Herat and another on August 11 in Kandahar. Two civilians were also injured on January 18 in Kandahar.
The US military also admitted to injuring three civilians on January 1st in a strike in Kunio Barrow, Somalia.
At the same time, the Pentagon revised its tally for the years 2018 to 2020, acknowledging that it was responsible for an additional 10 deaths and 18 civilian injuries, all of them in Syria.
Non-governmental organizations regularly release much larger accounts of US strikes in war zones.
Airwars, which keeps track of civilian casualties from airstrikes around the world, estimated in its annual report published in May at 15 to 27 civilians killed in US operations in Syria alone.
In January 2022, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin asked the US armed forces to do more to avoid civilian casualties in airstrikes, following several bloody incidents.
Protecting civilians is a “strategic and moral obligation,” Austin had stressed in that memo.
Source: News Beast
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