This picture has been released by Reuters, my special thanks to the news agency for providing support to the narrative of a third world citizen
If one peeps into the history of the US imposed wars, one point is clear that the establishment has been providing exaggerated and grossly incorrect reports to media. Ironically the ‘embedded journalists’, often working for mainstream media, have proved nothing but buffoons.
One of the recent examples
is dropping of “Mother of All Bombs" in Afghanistan on 13th
April 2017. All the details were made public about its code name, model number,
weight, cost impact etc but hardly any details have been made public about the
number of people killed and their identity, to the extent that no dead bodies
were shown to media. It is also a fact that media has not been allowed to visit
the site.
Reportedly, Defense
Secretary James Mattis said that he did not intend to discuss damage estimates
from the use of most powerful non-nuclear bomb. One has all the reasons to
suspect that the Secretary is deliberating avoiding pinching questions being
raised on social media. It is also suspected that even Pentagon does not have
the evidence to share with the media.
The common grudge is
that the US is unwilling to share information about the people killed except to
say these were nameless, faceless, cave-dwellers. One may also ask questions
like who were these people and for how long there were living there. The
nationalities of those killed also remain undeclared. Falling of the biggest bomb has been followed
by the loud silence. The future of Afghanistan remains as uncertain as ever.
Reportedly, an Afghan
official said that the bombing killed 96 militants but provided no proof of the
deaths or information on how officials reached the number of casualties. One
wonders if Afghan or the US troops have made it to the bombing site. It has
been reported that security forces are blocking both journalists and local
residents from accessing the site.
The blast triggered shock-waves which residents said they felt miles away. In all sincerity, Afghans
in particular and the world in general with some conscience have a right to demand
an end to indiscriminate killing of Afghans. The terrorism waged by the US and
its allies in the name of the 'war on terror' far outstrips the violence of
those termed terrorists.
