Afghan Child Custody Case Exposes US Wartime Abuses

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image US special operations forces conduct combat operations in southeast Afghanistan, May 2019. © 2019 Sgt. Jaerett Engeseth/US Army On September 5, 2019, US armed forces and Afghan allies carried out a night raid on a rural hamlet in southern Afghanistan. What happened during the raid remains unclear, but when the shooting stopped, a man and woman and five of their six children were dead. Their 2-month-old baby girl was injured but survived. Afghan authorities turned over the baby, known in court documents as “L,” to her Afghan cousin and his wife, consistent with Afghan…

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