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| Title | Top UN envoy to Afghanistan urges greater efforts to avoid civilian casualties |
| Publisher | UN News Service |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Publication Date | 15 April 2010 |
| Cite as | UN News Service, Top UN envoy to Afghanistan urges greater efforts to avoid civilian casualties, 15 April 2010, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4bceb7a11e.html [accessed 5 June 2012] |
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Top UN envoy to Afghanistan urges greater efforts to avoid civilian casualties
The top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan today voiced his concern over a "disturbing trend" of civilian casualties caused by recent international military operations in the country, urging greater efforts to protect non-combatants.
On 12 April, four civilians were reportedly killed and 18 others injured in the Zhari district of the southern province of Kandahar, when international military forces fired at a bus.
"I am deeply saddened and seriously concerned by this loss of civilian life and once again call on all parties to the conflict to do their utmost to minimize harm to ordinary Afghans and to take every possible precautionary measure to distinguish between civilians andI deplore this attack on these courageous people who for years have devoted their lives to making Afghanistan safer for all
Topics: International armed conflict, Protection of civilian persons in time of war,
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