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February 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The biggest single killer of civilians was homemade landmines often dug into roads, tracks and paths to target Nato or Afghan troops, but detonating indiscriminately.
The United Nations said on average 23 such bombs were found or blew up each day, killing 967 civilians during the year.
Numbers of civilians killed by Nato troops or by Hamid Karzai’s forces fell slightly to 410.
Taliban leaders last year repeatedly called on their fighters to do more to protect civilians and threatened punishment to those who failed.
Such pronouncements have had little effect on the bloodshed, however.
“The continued high rate of civilian casualties by anti-government elements suggests that statements and proclamations alone neither resulted in improved protection of civilians nor minimised civilian casualties,” the UN report said.
Women and children were increasingly caught up in the violence, accounting for 30 per cent of deaths in the last half of the year.
Georgette Gagnon, director of human rights for the UN’s Kabul mission, said: “To the Afghan people, the credibility and value of a negotiation process and progress toward peace will be measured by reduced civilian casualties and real improvements in security, particularly in conflict-affected areas.
“Only through increased actions to protect civilians will the relentless toll of death and injury to Afghan children, women and men be ended during and following a peace process.”
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