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Over
2,700 civilians killed in Afghanistan in 2010: UN
Wednesday March 09, 2011 08:20:30 PM,
IANS
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Kabul: The number of
civilians killed in Afghanistan rose by 15 percent to 2,777 in
2010 from a year earlier, the Afghan Independent Human Rights
Commission (AIHRC) and the UN Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA)
said in a joint report Wednesday.
A total of 2,080 or 75 percent of civilian toll were attributed to
insurgency related violence, up 28 percent from the figure in
2009, the report said.
It said 55 percent of all fatalities, or 1,141 deaths had been
inflicted by suicide bomb attacks and IED blasts(Improvised
Explosive Device).
Afghan and NATO-led forces were responsible for 440 civilian
deaths or 16 percent of all the fatalities.
Other 257 or nine percent of civilian deaths were not caused by
any party to the conflict, it said.
"We all know that there is no military solution to the conflict,"
said Staffan de Mistura, the head of UNAMA, at a joint press
conference with chairperson of AIHRC Sima Samar and the visiting
UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Simonovic.
"We also know that everybody agrees there should be search for
political solution, but now we are asking formally, strongly and
firmly on behalf of Afghan people that 2011 should also see a
search for the protection of civilians by all sides," de Mistura
said.
"Protection of civilians in armed conflicts means protection of
basic human rights such as right to life, security and freedom of
movement and respect for the international humanitarian law by all
parties to the conflict," said Simonovic.
The UN and AIHRC have urged all the parties to take immediate
steps to reduce civilian casualties.
The report also called on foreign forces in Afghanistan to make
their investigation and reporting on civilian casualties more
transparent.
Head of Afghan human rights watchdog Samar said her group is
concerned over 105 percent increase in assassination that left 462
civilians dead with half of them in the country's south where
Taliban insurgents are active.
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