26,000 children killed or permanently disabled in the Afghan war
In war-torn Afghanistan, an average of five children have been killed or injured every day in the last 14 years. The charity Save the Children reported. BBC News.
According to Save the Children, an international non-governmental organization, at least 26,025 children died or were permanently disabled in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2019.
Save the Children released the information ahead of an important meeting in Geneva. At the same time, the organization called on donor countries to take steps to protect the future of Afghan children.
There have been long-running talks between the Afghan government, the Taliban and the United States to bring peace to Afghanistan. But in recent times, violence has escalated amid stalemate in talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. The United States has said it will reduce its military presence in the country.
According to Save the Sildren, Afghanistan is one of the 11 most dangerous countries for children in the world. In a report released last Friday on global violence, the group said 84 children had been killed in the country in 2019 alone. And 2,265 children have been crippled. More than two-thirds of the victims were boys. The children were killed in clashes between government forces and various anti-government armed groups, bombings and suicide attacks.
The report noted that schools were being regularly attacked in the ongoing fighting between the Taliban and other armed groups with US-backed Afghan government forces. Between 2016 and 2019, there have been more than three hundred attacks on schools.
Analysts say the US-led multinational force has pushed the Taliban out of state power. But peace has not returned to the country. Later they reorganized. They now control a large part of the country, more than at any time since the start of the longest war in the United States.
“Today is a day when your child may die in a suicide or air strike,” said Chris Niamandi, Save the Children’s country director for Afghanistan. But it is a reality for millions of Afghan parents whose children have been killed or injured.
Afghanistan has been plagued by decades of violent conflict and fighting. Millions of civilians have lost their lives in this violence. Meanwhile, the United States launched an operation in Afghanistan in 2001 to oust the Taliban in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York. Several allied countries joined him.
Analysts say the US-led multinational force has pushed the Taliban out of state power. But peace has not returned to the country. Later they reorganized. They now control a large part of the country, more than at any time since the start of the longest war in the United States.
The United States began withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in February after signing a landmark agreement with the Taliban. But as tensions between the Afghan government and the Taliban falter, violence has flared up again. A bloody rocket attack in Kabul over the weekend has killed at least eight people and injured 30 others.
Do not turn away from Afghanistan, called the baptism
news agency AFP, the head of the UN refugee agency in Geneva donors meeting on Monday, before Filippo Grundy on the international community to continue to support Afghanistan, necessarily called for. Otherwise, they are at risk of catastrophic consequences, he said.
