{"id":5459,"date":"2018-02-15T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5459-un-10-000-civilian-casualties-in-afghanistan-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T14:00:18","slug":"un-10-000-civilian-casualties-in-afghanistan-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/5459-un-10-000-civilian-casualties-in-afghanistan-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: 10,000 civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10,000 civilians lost their lives or suffered injuries during 2017, according to the latest annual UN report documenting the impact of the armed conflict on civilians in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>More than 10,000 civilians lost their lives or suffered injuries during 2017, according to the latest annual UN report documenting the impact of the armed conflict on civilians in Afghanistan.<\/h4>\n<h4>A total of 10,453 civilian casualties &#8211; 3,438 people killed and 7,015 injured &#8211; were documented in the 2017 Annual Report released today by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office. Although this figure represents a decrease of nine per cent compared with 2016, the report highlights the high number of casualties caused by suicide bombings and other attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs).\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe chilling statistics in this report provide credible data about the war\u2019s impact, but the figures alone cannot capture the appalling human suffering inflicted on ordinary people, especially women and children,\u201d said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the Secretary-General\u2019s Special Representative for Afghanistan.<\/h4>\n<h4>Yamamoto, who also heads UNAMA, expressed deep concern at the increased harm to civilians caused by suicide attacks. \u201cI am particularly appalled by the continued indiscriminate and unlawful use of IEDs such as suicide bombs and pressure-plate devices in civilian populated areas. This is shameful,\u201d he said.<\/h4>\n<h4>Among its recommendations, the report urges parties to the conflict to take all feasible precautions to protect civilians and civilian installations.\u00a0 It calls on anti-government elements to cease the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian objects and the indiscriminate and disproportionate use of all IEDs.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10,000 civilians lost their lives or suffered injuries during 2017, according to the latest annual UN report documenting the impact of the armed conflict on civilians in Afghanistan. \u00a0 More than 10,000 civilians lost their lives or suffered injuries during 2017, according to the latest annual UN report documenting the impact of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,565,670,168],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-afghanistan","tag-civilians","tag-kill","tag-report"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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