News
December 30, 2009

President Karzai Condoles with the Families of Kunar Victims

President Karzai in a telephone contact expressed condolences and shared grief with the families of the victims of the recent attack in Kunar province.

The President spoke with the father and uncle of those killed in the incident and said he was deeply grieved at the loss of civilians and assured the mourning families of his every effort for a serious and thorough investigation and said perpetrators would be legally dealt with.

The family members thanked the President for his sympathy and feelings and demanded punishment for those behind the attack and those who provided misinformation.

Following the attack, President Karzai tasked a delegation on Monday led by the Chief of Complaints Commission and composed of representatives from the ministries of Defense, Interior, National Directorate of Security and the Office of Administrative Affairs for an immediate investigation of the incident.

The local administration officials and the international forces based in Kunar province told the team of investigators they were unaware of the incident.
The findings by the delegation concluded that a unit of international forces descended from a plane Sunday night into Ghazi Khan Village in Narang district of the eastern province of Kunar and took 10 people from three homes, eight of them school students in grades six, nine and 10, one of them a guest, the rest from the same family, and shot them dead.
Eight of those shot dead were confirmed as school students by the village school principle.