How serious is the US mission in protecting Afghan civilians? Lets see: “The U.S. military command...declined to grant an interview on the subject of civilian casualties and instead responded to some of The Washington Post’s questions submitted by email.” washingtonpost.com/world/2020/09/…
“For 2019, U.N. data on civilian casualties from American bombs is more than five times as high as that collected by the Pentagon. “
“...allegations of civilian casualties reviewed by the Pentagon doubled. But the number of in-depth investigations into those allegations dropped by half.”
“Of 563 allegations [of civilian harm], only 74 were deemed credible in 2019...But it conducted only 14 in-depth investigations [on civilian harm] in 2019, down from 23 in 2018, according to U.S. military data provided to the United Nations.”
There are a number of other important points in this deeply researched report by @sgreports.
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