MK Bhadrakumar
"The government-owned China Daily featured an editorial today containing a devastating condemnation of the US-led war in Afghanistan. The context is the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar on March 11, which has “infuriated” the Afghan people and “strained the already tense” Afghan-US relations.
The editorial demands that “Washington owes the Afghan people an honest explanation” of what actually happened — in an oblique challenge to the Pentagon’s doctored version that the killings were the rampage by a ‘rogue’ US sergeant.
The editorial suggests that the “US should be held accountable” for the civilian deaths, which cause “widespread concern among the international community” over the US’ war strategy.
In a strong condemnation of the US, the editorial concludes that the world community is “sickened” by the civilian deaths caused by the US “in the name of anti-terrorism.”
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