US must investigate alleged Afghan killings: HRW

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Washington: Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called for an "intensive and unprejudiced examination" into affirmations Us extraordinary powers were complicit in the torture and killings of Afghan regular folks. The Us-based rights assembly refered to a report distributed Wednesday in Rolling Stone that raised crisp inquiries concerning the part of Us Army Green Berets in the passings of 18 men in 2012-2013 in the Nerkh area of Wardak territory, outside the capital Kabul. "The Nerkh occurrences ought to be explored
thoroughly, unbiasedly, and transparently," Andrea Prasow, senior counterterrorism guide at Human Rights Watch, said in a proclamation. "While it is clear that unlawful acts happened, Us powers need to create what precisely happened and who is mindful." He included that the United States had a poor record of arraigning rights misuses supposedly dedicated by American drives throughout the 12-year-old war in Afghanistan. The Rolling Stone article, refering to talks with Afghan villagers, relatives and neighborhood authorities, affirms that stays of 10 of the chumps who had "vanished" were discovered covered close to the base of the Green Beret unit, regarded as Oda 324. The article cited a neighborhood Afghan who was confined by Us compels asserting he saw an Afghan mediator, Zikria Kandahari, execute his neighbor with American troops standing by and doing nothing to stop him. The translator, Kandahari, was captured in May and has been blamed by Afghan powers for torturing and killing regular people while working for the Green Berets. At the same time he has asserted he was emulating American requests. In light of meetings with villagers, the magazine article inferred Us constrains might have chosen not to see to a few homicides, occupied with torture of a few prisoners and even a few killings. After the first disclosures of conceivable war wrongdoings developed, President Hamid Karzai requested the American extraordinary compels to leave the territory in February. Under a bargain, the Green Beret unit left the Nerkh locale in March yet Us compels remained somewhere else in Wardak. The Us-headed Nato mission in Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), completed an examination however considered no confirmation of wrongdoing by the exceptional strengths group, authorities said. In July, the Us Army's Criminal Investigative Command started a new test into the killings. Moving Stone, refering to military sources, said the examination came after the International Committee of the Red Cross furnished new confirm in the case. "We presently have an open and progressing criminal examination," Chris Grey, representative for the Criminal Investigation Command, told Afp. Exceptional executors from the summon opened their examination in the wake of being educated of charges on July 17 from the lawful counselor at Isaf central command in Kabul, he included. Military powers had no arrangements to discharge data taking care of business regarding this issue to ensure the trustworthiness of the investigation.