Afghanistan

Never before have so many civilian casualties in Afghanistan

With the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan, the violence in the country increased dramatically and also the number of killed or injured civilians. The United Nations is sounding the Alarm.

Firefighters at the beginning of February at the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul

In Afghanistan, it has in the past year 11.002 civilian casualties. This is from a Kabul featured UN report to Zivilopfern. Among them were 3545 Dead and 7457 hurt – 4 percent more than in 2014. The UN made the Taliban and other extremists for 6858 cases – 62 per cent of all victims. 14 percent were on Afghan and 2 percent to international military forces. The majority of the other victims was not a belligerent party associate. Since the beginning of the count in 2009, the UN has 58.736 civilian casualties in Afghanistan registered.

“The Suffering of the civilians is inflicted, is completely unacceptable,” said the UN special envoy for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom. He called the leaders to do more to protect the civilians, and the attacks to stop.

British soldiers after an attack in Kabul Embassy district

Increasingly desperate fighting between government forces and insurgents have resulted in more innocent between the front lines were, says the report. Fights were with 37 percent of the Hauptsursache for civilian casualties, roadside bombs were 21 percent and Selbsmordanschläge for 17 percent of the victims responsible.

Mostly there were men who were killed or injured, however, were more often women and children affected: 2015, every fourth victim is a child, and every tenth victim is a woman. This was an increase of respectively 14 and 37 percent.

The Taliban had, after the withdrawal of international combat troops their activities strengthened and were also repeated in large cities subregion. So conquered the Islamic rebellious movement in September for a short time nordafghanische city of Kunduz. The international troops by the end of 2014 after 13 years of its combat mission in Afghanistan ends, and the responsibility for security to the Afghans passed.

stu/ACE (afp, dpa, rtr)