This interview features Shukria Dellawar, from the Center for International Policy, interviewed on CCTV News regarding the following: A US soldier shot 16 civilians in Kandahar, many of victims were women and children. The soldier also burned the bodies of several victims. The incident happened in two separate villages and families of the victims are outraged and asking for justice. The soldier was on his fourth deployment (three in Iraq) and last one in Afghanistan. The incident has strained already tense relations between Afghans and Americans, with the 10 year security pact agreement less likely to come to a resolution on the night raid issue by May of 2012. The timing of the incident followed foreign soldiers urinating on dead Taliban corpses and burnings of the Koran. Protests broke out in Kandahar and other parts of the country, with Afghans asking for the US soldier to be tried in Afghanistan.
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