Yankee go home, Afghans say on anniversary of fall of Kabul

Hundreds of men and women have taken to the streets of Kabul to demand that US-led occupation forces leave Afghanistan.

Monday’s demonstration was organized by pro-democracy groups to remember those who were killed during the civil war in the early 1990s after the pro-Soviet government was toppled.

Kabul fell to the Mujahideen forces, which had been fighting against the Soviet occupation forces and the pro-Soviet government, on April 30, 1992.

The Mujahideen then renamed the country the Islamic State of Afghanistan.

The protesters called for the punishment of those involved in human rights violations over the past three decades of war in Afghanistan.

They also accused the governments in Washington and Kabul of appointing “war criminals” to senior government posts.

On Saturday, Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission said some war crimes suspects are destroying mass graves in order to cover up the evidence of their actions.

Meanwhile, a new report shows the US-led military coalition in Afghanistan is underreporting attacks on foreign troops.

The Associated Press learned on Monday that two US soldiers were wounded by Afghan policemen last week. The attackers were killed but the incident was not reported.

According to figures released by the website icasualties.org, 138 US-led troops have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year.

As casualties have risen in Afghanistan over the past few months, public opinion in the United States and other NATO countries has begun turning against the war.

In addition, hundreds of civilians have lost their lives in US-led operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past few months, with Afghans becoming increasingly outraged with the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.