Just one year ago, in February 2011, NATO forces mercilessly mowed down a large group of Afghan civilians who had gathered for a village event in the Kunar province of eastern Afghanistan. At least sixty-five civilians were killed in the massacre with forty of them being children. NATO claimed that those killed were almost all insurgents with only a handful of civilian deaths. It was a successful and legitimate killing operation as far as NATO was concerned. But an Afghan government team sent to investigate the large number of deaths found that seventy-five people were killed in the massacre w
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