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i'm melissa chan you're watching news asia thank you for joining us cia backed afghan paramilitary forces have killed civilians and night raids kidnapped people and bombed villages that's according to the latest human rights watch report these documented incidents took place in mostly taliban controlled areas of afghanistan and have increased significantly over the past 2 years in parallel with u.s. efforts to exit its 19 year war there human rights watch says what is happening are war crimes the cia has responded and says its operations are done quote in accordance with law and under a robust system of oversight but for afghan civilians this rationale offers little in the way of justice for their loved ones killed as collateral damage. to the

afghan villagers burying their dead farm workers are visiting pine nuts were among the victims caught up in a u.s. drone strike in september targeting so-called islamic state militants in the east of the country. rights monitors deplored the mounting civilian casualties even as the warring parties step up efforts to reach a peace deal there seems to be movement toward some kind of a. a settlement and a possible u.s. troop withdrawal so both sides are ramping up their military activities trying to cause as many casualties as cause as much damage to the other side as possible but the problem is that civilians are really the ones most affected human rights watch says i'd noticed a disturbing trend after talking to locals one of the people who came to me after we'd interviewed about a dozen people described a very different kind of atrocity and it was the 1st time i was aware that these

kind of night raids had become so frequent and that the people affected had really no avenue for redress no one to turn to over the past 2 years the group says it has documented more than a dozen cases of serious abuses by afghan paramilitary squads operating in secret with cia backing the alleged crimes including indiscriminate air raids acts or judicial killings and disappearances the problem with these particular militia groups these paramilitary says they operate outside normal chains of command within the ordinary afghan government forces or the u.s. forces and so they're not held accountable and that lack of transparency and civilians cannot go to someone and find out what happened get any kind of justice for the crimes committed human rights watch says the secret units should be disbanded the cia disputes the findings saying the claims are quote likely false or exaggerated. we have journalist alley la t.v.

in kabul ali you've actually looked at this before the human rights watch report came out what have you seen and reported on. so we've seen increases in civilians being targeted from all sides this is something that's very important that we have to keep in mind the united nations has documented this in other organizations that documented it where basically u.s. forces and afghan government light forces are being considered responsible for things like disappearances for. abuses basically like you know shooting people on the spot taking them prisoner interrogation violent interrogation tactics scaring people through the use of night raids which have been controversial throughout the entire 18 years of the u.s. war in afghanistan and so basically what we're seeing is that these questions of how civilians are being treated are now being documented on all sides and the

situation seems to be getting much worse and not better for civilians you know dealing with both of our national security forces as well as their u.s. allies and in terms of the taleban and groups claiming allegiance to diet so again it all comes back to civilians in how their lives are being affected by this war that seems to no no end at this point what's particularly interesting about this human rights report because as you've been saying this is a 19 year war that the united states has been involved in there's been killing on all sides civilians have died for years and years and so human rights watch comes out with this report what is distinctive and special about information there convey . distinctive and special is that you know as i said these peace these night raids and these air raids have been controversial to throughout the the war and in 2013 the former president hamann cuz i really tried to end the night raids but starting

in 2015 the new national unity government sort of put an end to all of those oversights and that limitation on this practice and since then especially since the taliban talks have started to break down things have gotten much much much worse for the civilians for instance i was asking them because they were done a lot of research in the eastern province and in their heart i asked them i said in the year and a half to true years of the study crew this report how many instances took place in the province of harmless of 3 instances and in those 3 instances i least 30 civilians were killed right now in that entire report which is the 9 provinces they documented 50 civilian casualties and at least 30 are from a single problems now what's really interesting is that the report that this wretch organization did took place in taliban controlled areas and that and of course you have people there sympathetic to the taliban who choose to collaborate with them but the then you also have a poor farmer who might not have

a lot of sympathy with the taliban but if they show up with guns into the village you kind of have no choice but to collaborate with them and yet you have the c.i. a backed paramilitary group saying well we have just a vacation to go after the civilians because they helped the taliban it's kind of a conundrum for the people there right. it's a conundrum and it also raises the question of what does help me if one enters your haves and you can't tell them to leave does that make you an accomplice if they demand food from you and you have no choice but to give them food if they happen to be related to you what what what what constitutes helping these people and other issues that you're talking about areas where people can't get to so it's very hard to find physical evidence so you're not buying photos and videos of these kinds of raids because they happen at night in a hard to reach areas and a lot of these people don't have you know they might have like

a simple nokia phone with a video camera that's going to be 1st of all while the night raid is going on you can't capture these kind of things. thank you thank you. every breath we take is killing us that was the message of leading environmentalist's in a letter to indian prime minister narendra modi pollution in delhi reached its worst levels so far this year officials declared a public health emergency shutting schools and rolling out an odd even numbered license plate scheme to take cars off the road pollution levels are so high in the indian capital there are literally off the charts particulate matter per cubic metres maxing out past 999 across the city just for context anything below 25 is considered healthy air and these nasa images show what locals say

is the cause red dots that represent thousands of crop fires in northwestern india . does not fall cups during delis why you dive and use a toxic soup of engine exhaust industrial emissions and smoke from nearby farmland even the sun struggled to pardon through the mark traffic was lighter than usual on monday as the old even system took effect motor vehicles with number plates ending with odd numbers were banned from the roads on tuesday it will be vehicles with even numbers that stay part but some residents say it's not enough. i think the gunmen here gunmen the kenyan government need to do much more. to stop this minute. let me please let's breathe was the chant of the demonstration over the weekend delhi ites fed up with living in the most polluted capital in the

world and they say it's not getting any better. patients are coming with more like us but it is he says like more accepted with us so now it is a matter of this but i think the nation. the pollution is increasing more authorities have declared a public health emergency in delhi but with india home to 15 of the top 20 most polluted places in the world this is a national not local crisis. correspondent mr gys will is in delhi and sent us this update the air here in new delhi causes a sting in the throat and has a born smell to it but with temperatures hovering at about 28 degrees it is clear at a residence that this is not for this is not small this is smoke the city has been enveloped by a picture there of greece more over the past few days the air quality index has

repeatedly read as hazardous for us mosques and everyone a fire as a flying off the shelves of as residents struggle to combat the toxic air pollution that has covered the city once again the c.e.o. joining us now from delhi is ravine iraj kohli part of the environmental group my right to breathe riviera you guys wrote an open letter to the prime minister what was your message. i message was that this has to become a central government control issue because it involves so many states and so many chief ministers who have shown real reluctance to step in and solve the problem 'd because of their own political motives and so we have no choice but to actually take this up with the ems level and say you know this needs to cease to be a sticky subject and it must become a subject where your concern step in and do something about it i mean this problem in delhi has been going on for years and nothing has been done why has that been

the case. you know a health story in an environment story doesn't get your books in india this is not something that the masses have gotten in used with yet yes it has become frank and use yes people engage with it a lot but you know that the the common man out there on the street who is the most underserved and the most affected by this problem is not yet crying but. that is one of the issues that we are grappling with just at the dozens more trying to need more and more citizens and you know we we have jogging up with the shoes we have shoes are added you might be going to you know people say all i want is good on my daimler really can't be bothered with something called air it's an elitist problem then we have a narrative that dots about mosques and if you were to fire a builder so it's big seems to be a rich person's you know all these issues of make it something so complicated it's not as simple as but what it was in china that can make. ravine iraj callie thank

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