Sunday, August 17, 2014

AI: US military ignored evidence of war crimes in Afghanistan

[JURIST] The US military systematically covered up or disregarded "abundant and compelling evidence" of war crimes in Afghanistan, Amnesty International (AI) [advocay website] reported [PDF] Monday. The report, entitled "Afghanistan: Left in the dark: Failures of accountability for civilian casualties caused by international military operations in Afghanistan," examines the record of accountability for civilian deaths caused by international military operations in the five-year period from 2009 to 2013. The report focuses, in particular, on the poor performance of the US...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/08/ai.php

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