UN Report: Civilian Casualties In Afghanistan Hit Record High

New York Times: Afghanistan Had Record Number of Civilian Casualties Last Year, U.N. Says

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban suicide attacks and a fierce battle for the northern city of Kunduz made 2015 the worst year for Afghan civilian casualties since the United Nations began tracking the data, officials said on Sunday, in a sobering reminder of the cost of the conflict at a time when the prospect of peace seems as distant as ever.

The United Nations documented 3,545 civilians killed and 7,457 injured last year, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the United Nations Human Rights Office said in a report presented at a news conference in Kabul, the Afghan capital. The total casualty figure, 11,002, was 4 percent above the 2014 level. The number of civilian injuries rose 9 percent, though there were 4 percent fewer deaths.

The statistics do not “reflect the real horror of the phenomenon we are talking about,” Nicholas Haysom, the United Nation’s secretary general’s special representative for Afghanistan, told journalists.

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WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction .... 2016 is going to be worse.

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