The Costs of War project by Brown University estimates that over 46,000 Afghan civilians lost their lives during the longest war in US history. But it's widely believed that if a systematic investigation is carried out into US forces, the results would be more appalling and horrible. Neither the US nor the UK has made moves in this direction. The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission later called on other nations, especially the US and the UK, to also open inquiries to investigate possible unlawful killings by their forces in Afghanistan.
In November 2020, a war crimes inquiry found that there was "credible information" to prove that the Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan had unlawfully killed 39 civilians and detainees and cruelly treated two persons. Washington has shown zero sincerity to reflect upon the crimes it committed against the Afghan people. The US also imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), which started an investigation into US war atrocities in Afghanistan. This is done even when the evidence of wrongdoing is staring them in the face. It also shields criminals and deals with them leniently. But Washington and the Pentagon usually refuse to acknowledge them, and try to cover up the truth. In the 20-year-long Afghanistan war, the US has committed horrible war crimes in the country. No US personnel responsible for the killings has been investigated or punished so far. But then what? Demands from the victims' families for a probe into the "blatant crime" and for the perpetrators to be brought to justice have been ignored. General Frank McKenzie, commander of US Central Command, offered an apology for the error. It admitted that the deadly US drone strike in Kabul on August 29, which it had previously defended as a "righteous strike," was a "tragic mistake" that killed 10 civilians, including a humanitarian worker and seven children, instead of terrorist targets. Photo: AFP "It was a mistake." The US military on September 17 changed course amid huge international public opinion pressure and solid evidence provided by a pair of media investigations. A resident stands amid the debris of a house damaged in a US drone strike in the Kwaja Burga neighborhood of Kabul on September 18, 2021.
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