Angry protesters on Tuesday rallied in capital Kabul condemning the killing of civilians in airstrike in Jilga district of Maidan Wardak province and demanded an end to such practices.
Around 200 protesters rallied from the Dehbori Square and to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and demanded halt to the killing of civilians and trial of individuals behind the killing of innocent people.
Five people of a family were killed and four others injured in an airstrike on Abdul Jalil Anis’s residence in the Jelga district few days earlier, according to the protesters.
Ahmad Tamim Baryali, a relative of the victims, said Anis was injured in the airstrike while his wife two daughters, a 14-year-old son and another 15-year-old boy who was working there got killed.
Anis’s 12-year-old daughter, seven years old son and 22-year-old man were injured in the bombardment.
“I don’t want to say anything, but Allah may deal with aggressors, may Allah destroy their families the way they destroyed us.”
Mohammad Naeem Wardak, a local elder who participated in protest, said: “We want the killing of children, women and youth to be stopped; we want the killing of innocent people to be stopped.”
Mohammad Qasim, a relative of Anis, said civilians often became the victim of night raids and airstrikes and this practice should be stopped anymore.
He warned the protesters had demanded to close the Kandahar-Kabul Road if the perpetrators behind the airstrikes are not brought into justice.
