29/08/2006
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A bomb exploded between the stalls and shops of the bazaar of Lashkargah in
the south of Afghanistan. It was a massacre: at least 20 dead, two of whom were
children, and 40 wounded arrived in desperate condition at the local hospital
of the italian ngo 'Emergency'. The victims were all civilians. It is the most
recent act of a war that, only this year, has caused the deaths of 3,500 people
in Afghanistan: Taliban combatants, Afghan military, and Western soldiers, but
above all civilians, civilians who die through bombs placed by Taliban terrorists
but also by those dropped by the NATO-ISAF planes that now bomb villages of the
south daily.
A few days ago, August 25, the planes of the international coalition bombed the village of Musa Qala in the north of the province of Helmand, striking a wedding celebration. Twelve civilians were killed, many wounded, among them three children brought to the surgical center of Emergency at Lashkargah. We have received this e-mail from Marina Castellano, a nurse at the hospital.
“I have just come back from the evening shift in the hospital, and I feel terribly
bad. I would like to be able to howl the rage that I feel within but I can’t do
it, and then I thought of writing to you, of howling to you how monstrously unjust
all this is. Three children of 2, 5 and 6 years and their father arrived in the
emergency room. Their bodies are devastated by splinters of bombs. Their village,
Musa Qala, has been under aerial bombardment on the part of international forces
since yesterday. Their mother died with the rest of the family — 10 people. I
asked the father, thanks to the translation of a local doctor, if there have been
many deaths. He answered that the families that live near them, around 40 people, have
been completely destroyed, and he added that in all the villages surrounding his
the situation is the same: dead and wounded.
Nevertheless, if I search on the internet for news in Italian newspapers, including Ansa, I find only short articles that speak of 10 Taliban killed in the south of Afghanistan: no one speaks at all of all these civilians. The Emergency hospital is overflowing with patients. From when, yesterday, the bombing resumed (always more frequent), numerous wounded have arrived—all civilians.
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An Italian nurse in the south of Afghanistan describes the situation.
A bomb exploded between the stalls and shops of the bazaar of Lashkargah in
the south of Afghanistan. It was a massacre: at least 20 dead, two of whom were
children, and 40 wounded arrived in desperate condition at the local hospital
of the italian ngo 'Emergency'. The victims were all civilians. It is the most
recent act of a war that, only this year, has caused the deaths of 3,500 people
in Afghanistan: Taliban combatants, Afghan military, and Western soldiers, but
above all civilians, civilians who die through bombs placed by Taliban terrorists
but also by those dropped by the NATO-ISAF planes that now bomb villages of the
south daily.
A few days ago, August 25, the planes of the international coalition bombed the village of Musa Qala in the north of the province of Helmand, striking a wedding celebration. Twelve civilians were killed, many wounded, among them three children brought to the surgical center of Emergency at Lashkargah. We have received this e-mail from Marina Castellano, a nurse at the hospital.
“I have just come back from the evening shift in the hospital, and I feel terribly
bad. I would like to be able to howl the rage that I feel within but I can’t do
it, and then I thought of writing to you, of howling to you how monstrously unjust
all this is. Three children of 2, 5 and 6 years and their father arrived in the
emergency room. Their bodies are devastated by splinters of bombs. Their village,
Musa Qala, has been under aerial bombardment on the part of international forces
since yesterday. Their mother died with the rest of the family — 10 people. I
asked the father, thanks to the translation of a local doctor, if there have been
many deaths. He answered that the families that live near them, around 40 people, have
been completely destroyed, and he added that in all the villages surrounding his
the situation is the same: dead and wounded.
Nevertheless, if I search on the internet for news in Italian newspapers, including Ansa, I find only short articles that speak of 10 Taliban killed in the south of Afghanistan: no one speaks at all of all these civilians. The Emergency hospital is overflowing with patients. From when, yesterday, the bombing resumed (always more frequent), numerous wounded have arrived—all civilians.
Now the three children and their father are stretched out all together on two
beds side by side. None of them says anything, not a complaint. Only the man,
while they put him in the bed, looks at his children and says: my family is all
here. And his eyes fill with tears.”
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