Notre barbarie, – preuve par l'Afghanistan

Notre barbarie, – preuve par l'Afghanistan

La démonstration est éclatante. Les membres survivants de la famille afghane décimée par une attaque nocturne (le 12 février) des forces de la civilisation (occidentaliste, américaniste, otanienne, – au choix) refusent l’argent qui leur est proposée “en compensation” pour leurs morts. (Dernier tarif: $2.000 par “tête”.)

Le chef de famille a une autre idée: des attaques suicide contre ceux qui les ont attaqués («I don’t want money. I want justice. All our family, we now don’t care about our lives. We will all do suicide attacks and [the whole province] will support us.») Détail: tous ces gens étaient “des amis des Américains” et travaillaient avec eux. Le goût leur en est passé.

Le Times de Londres de ce 15 mars 2010 a un article intéressant sur cette affaire, après une enquête approfondie sur place.

«A family whose members were killed in a botched night raid in eastern Afghanistan have rejected “blood money” from the Government and vowed to carry out suicide attacks unless the perpetrators are brought to justice.

»Two pregnant women, a teenage girl, a policeman and his brother were shot dead on February 12 by unidentified gunmen. Eight men were arrested in the raid on the village of Khataba in Paktia province. They have all been released. No one has claimed responsibility for the killings. A US official in Kabul refused to identify the force involved, citing “utmost national and strategic security interests”.

»The United Nations has criticised intelligence agencies in Afghanistan in the past for using paramilitary groups to carry out “extrajudicial killings”. If the force was controlled by the CIA or Afghanistan’s domestic intelligence service it would be exempt from new Nato guidelines designed to limit night raids, which came into force on January 23.

»Local elders delivered $2,000 (£1,300) in compensation for each of the five victims to the head of the family, Haji Sharabuddin, after protests brought Gardez, the capital of Paktia, to a halt. “I don’t want money. I want justice,” he said. “All our family, we now don’t care about our lives. We will all do suicide attacks and [the whole province] will support us.”

»Nato had claimed that the assault force found the women’s bodies “tied up, gagged and killed”. In its initial statement it also said: “Several insurgents engaged the joint force in a fire fight and were killed.”

»An investigation by The Times at and around the scene found both those statements to be untrue. Although the family’s claims that they did not shoot back could not be independently verified, none of the dead was an insurgent. Relatives say that the women were killed during, not before, the raid.

»Nato officials continued to brief journalists in Kabul yesterday that the women were victims of an “honour” killing. However, they did not explain why the bodies would have been kept in the house overnight, against Islamic custom, nor why the family had invited 25 guests to celebrate the naming of a newborn child the same evening. Nato denies accusations of a cover-up.

»An undated document seen by The Times that was presented by US forces to Commander Dawood, the dead policeman, praised him for his work and “dedication and willingness to serve the people of Afghanistan”. It said he would “ensure the stability of your country for many years”…»

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