UN STRONGLY CONDEMNS DEADLY ATTACKS IN EASTERN AFGHANISTAN

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UN STRONGLY CONDEMNS DEADLY ATTACKS IN EASTERN AFGHANISTANNew York,
Jun 3 2013 12:00PMThe United Nations strongly condemned the two
deadly attacks which took place today in eastern Afghanistan that left
at least 19 people dead, including a dozen children.

The attacks demonstrate once again that anti-Government elements
"knowingly target areas frequented by civilians," said a news release
issued by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which
noted that conflict-related violence has killed 125 Afghan civilians
and injured 287 in the past two weeks.

"These attacks resulted in a high number of civilian casualties, with
minimal impact on their purported military targets. Any such violence
is unacceptable, but especially when it involves civilians and even
more so when it involves children,"
<"http://unama.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=12254&ctl=Details&mid=15756&ItemID=36903&language=en-US">said
the Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of UNAMA, Ján
Kubiš.

"Any attacks which deliberately take place near a school can only be
condemned for the heinous attacks that they are," he added.

In the first attack, according to initial reports, a suicide bomber
riding a motorcycle detonated his explosives as a convoy of the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was passing a nearby
boys' high school in Gardez, the capital of Paktya province.

The explosion killed 10 boys and injured at least 15 other civilians,
including schoolchildren. Two ISAF soldiers and an Afghan police
officer were also killed in the blast.

In the city of Mihtarlam, the capital of Laghman province, an
improvised explosive device was detonated on a roadside, reportedly
killing seven members of one family, including four women and two
children. The family was said to be returning home in a truck after
collecting firewood.

"UNAMA extends its condolences to the families of all of those killed
in the attacks and wishes a speedy recovery for the injured," it
stated.

"The use of suicide attacks and improvised explosive devices against
civilians must stop," the Mission stressed, noting that the
indiscriminate use of such attacks is in contravention of humanitarian
law and may amount to war crimes.

The Mission pointed out that the high civilian death toll in the past
two weeks represents a 24 per cent increase in total civilian
casualties from the same period in 2012. Anti-Government elements were
responsible for 84 per cent of all civilian casualties during the past
two weeks, it added.Jun 3 2013 12:00PM
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