2012 Kapisa airstrike

NATO airstrike in Afghanistan 2012 Kapisa airstrike 8 February 2012 Giawa village, Nijrab District, Kapisa Province, Afghanistan 7 children between the age of 6-12 and one mentally handicapped 18-year-old The 2012 Kapisa airstrike refers to a NATO air raid in which seven children and one adult were killed in a village in Nijrab District of Kapisa Province, Afghanistan. The strike took place on 8 February 2012.http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=85616 https://web.archive.org/web/20140407072357/http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=85616 usurped 7 April 2014 NATO airstrike kills Afghan children | Asia-Pasific | Worldbulletin News Worldbulletin.net 2012-02-10 2014-04-02http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/10/world/asia/afghanistan-deaths-probe/ NATO investigates report of Afghan civilian deaths CNN.com 2012-02-10 2014-04-02Associated Press https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/world/asia/children-killed-in-nato-airstrike-afghan-leader-says.html Airstrike Killed Children, Karzai Says 2012-02-10 The New York Times 2014-04-02 Events Kapisa district police chief Abdul Hamid Erkin told AFP: "Two nights ago foreign special forces carried out a raid on a house in Geyawa village in Nejrab district. ... The next morning their plane carried out an airstrike on a house in the village as a result of which seven children and one adult were martyred." He also said commanders of French troops "claimed that the target was a group of Taliban facilitators, but we checked the area and there were no Taliban. ...In fact the people in the area have very strong anti-Taliban feelings."http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/02/10/65776509.html NATO kills children in Afghanistan - News - Politics - The Voice of Russia: News, Breaking news, Politics, Economics, Business, Russia, International current events, Expert opinion, podcasts, Video 2014-04-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20120218080809/http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/02/10/65776509.html 18 February 2012 dead dmy-all April 2014 According to Hussain Khan Sanjani, the leader of the Kapisa provincial council: "the victims rounded up sheep and cows and moved them toward a mountainous area behind their homes," he said. "When they got cold, they gathered brush and lighted a fire to keep warm... One airstrike hit a large boulder and the other struck the victims, who were badly burned."August 2024 medicmedic Investigation President Hamid Karzai had assigned a delegation "to launch an all-out probe into the NATO bombing in the province of Kapisa", a statement from his office said. He then sent an advisor, Mohammad Zahir Safi, to the area to investigate the incident.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-airstrike-idUSTRE81822420120209 Afghanistan says children killed in NATO airstrike 9 February 2012 Reuters 2014-04-02 Reactions President Hamid Karzai "strongly condemned an airstrike by foreign troops which resulted in the killing of a number of children,". See also Granai airstrike Deh Bala wedding party bombing Civilian casualties of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present) References External links NATO Air Strike Kills Eight Children in Afghanistan collapsed Afghanistan June 2017 Category:2012 massacres in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Category:2012 mass murders Category:Airstrikes during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Category:Civilian casualties in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Category:War crimes in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Category:21st century in Kapisa Province Category:February 2012 in Afghanistan Category:Attacks in Afghanistan in 2012 Category:2012 airstrikes Category:NATO operations in Afghanistan Category:February 2012 crimes in Asia