The number of conflicts in Afghanistan the number of civilians killed has reached the highest level since records began in 2009. In the year 2018, were killed, according to a Sunday report published by the UN Mission in Afghanistan (Unama) and the UN high Commissioner for human rights, at least 3804 civilians. The are eleven percent more than the year before. At the same time, 7189 civilians were injured, around two per cent more than in 2017.
The main reasons for the increase are, therefore, more suicide bombings and large scale attacks, especially by the terrorist militia Islamic state (IS), as well as an increase in the number of Victims due to air attacks and search operations of Pro-government forces. 42 per cent of the civilian victims were killed, therefore, by bombs. By of suicide used suicide bombers, remote-detonated or self-triggering explosives were 1361 people have been killed. Almost a quarter of the civilians killed were children. With 927 fatalities, this value is the highest since records began.
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The example of Afghanistan shows how important it had been that interventions would not end too early, or shut down. It takes a long time, until from a company that has long suffered under a dictatorship or a regime of terror, a functioning civil society.
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For 37 percent of the civilian victims of the power of the UN report, the radical Islamic Taliban responsible for a fifth of the terrorist militia Islamic state (IS). 24 per cent of the civilian victims of return on government troops and their allies. 2018 was recorded in Afghanistan, therefore, for the fifth year in a row, more than 10,000 killed or injured civilians. The Figures of the UN are considered to be conservative, because the Organisation needed for each registered case, at least three independent sources.
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arrived, The United Nations called on the parties to the conflict to take measures for the protection of the population. In the past ten years, more than 32,000 civilians were killed and about 60,000 wounded. “It is time to end this human suffering and this tragedy,” said the UN special envoy for Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto. (dpa)
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