{"id":36944,"date":"2013-08-01T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36944"},"modified":"2013-08-01T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T17:12:20","slug":"new-report-shows-dramatic-increase-in-afghan-civilian-casualties-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/08\/01\/new-report-shows-dramatic-increase-in-afghan-civilian-casualties-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Shows Dramatic Increase in Afghan Civilian Casualties in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130801NewsflashGupta\/2013_08_01_afghanistan.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130801NewsflashGupta\/2013_08_01_2013.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/afghan_casualties.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>More civilians have died in Afghanistan in the first half of this year than a year ago, bucking a trend toward greater security in the war-torn nation. A new United Nations report finds that civilian deaths and injuries are up by nearly a quarter and that a great number of those are a result of heightened fighting between Afghan government forces and the Taliban in anticipation of US troop withdrawals. <\/p>\n<p>The report also pointed out that women and children were disproportionately affected by the violence. <\/p>\n<p>The Taliban which realizes it is suffering a crisis in public relations from the casualties, rejected the report saying that it does not count government workers as \u201ccivilians.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the LA Times, an Afghan military analyst placed blame on US and NATO forces too, saying \u201cneither side respects civilian life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile today, Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting Pakistan and said he expects to complete a security agreement with Afghanistan allowing US forces to remain beyond 2014. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and travels regularly to Afghanistan where she works closely with the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcnv.org\">www.vcnv.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourjourneytosmile.org\">www.ourjourneytosmile.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More civilians have died in Afghanistan in the first half of this year than a year ago, bucking a trend toward greater security in the war-torn nation. A new United Nations report finds that civilian deaths and injuries are up by nearly a quarter and that a great number of those are a result of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36954,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36944\/revisions\/36954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}