‘US culprit can’t recall Afghan carnage’

“He (Staff Sergeant Robert Bales) has an early memory of that evening and he has a later memory… but he doesn’t have memory of the evening in between,” said John Henry Browne, Bales’ attorney, on Monday after meeting his client for the first time at Fort Leavenworth military prison in the US state of Kansas.

According to the lawyer, Bales also denied reports that he was drunk at the time of the rampage, AFP reported.

Browne had earlier said that his client “had recently been under stress.”

Meanwhile, an American Army official said that Bales’ charges will probably be announced by the US military in Afghanistan “within the next few days.”

Bales was flown from a temporary military prison in Kuwait to a maximum security cell in Fort Leavenworth. The transfer of the US soldier outraged the Afghan people, who demanded the public trial of the perpetrators of the heinous act in their country.

According to a fact-finding mission set up by the Afghan parliament, at least 20 US soldiers went from house to house in three villages in Kandahar’s Panjwaii district and gunned down Afghan civilians inside their homes, leaving at least 16 people — mostly women and children — dead and several others injured.

The Afghan parliamentary mission investigating the rampage says two women were also raped during the deadly incident.

However, US officials still insist that only one soldier was responsible for the killings.

ASH/MA

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