On March 11, a US soldier opened fire on Afghan civilians inside their homes in Kandahar’s Panjwaii district, leaving at least 17 people — among them nine children and three women — dead and several others injured.
The Afghan Senate closed an open meeting of on Tuesday in response to the murderous act, with Afghan deputies demonstrating outside the parliament building in a show of protest.
Senate Chairman Fazl Hadi Muslimyar also condemned the Kandahar killing, accusing the US army of engaging in crimes worse than those committed by Soviet occupiers.
Muslimyar called on all provincial councils across the country to close in a show of solidarity with the families of the victim of the American forces’ deadly shooting spree.
He vowed Afghan politicians will pursue their civil efforts to bring the perpetrators behind the mass killing to justice.
Responding to the call, the provincial council in Logar, eastern Afghanistan, announced it will remain closed for three days.
Meanwhile, popular protests against the presence of US-led military forces in Afghanistan continue across Afghanistan, with the latest deaths of civilians fueling anti-US sentiments raised by the desecration of the Holy Qur’an by American troops.
In the eastern province of Nangarhar, thousands of people took to the streets to condemn the massacre of civilians in Kandahar.
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