Has War on Terror Resulted in Abuse of Human Rights?Has war on terror resulted in abuse of human rights?Currently, everyone is acquainted with the word terrorism and its impact on general public. Terrorism is the use of pugnaciousness and violence to threat and force someone for achieving religious, political or other socio-economic objectives. Human rights are the basic rights, which should be granted to a human, such as, right to life, security, free speech, equal opportunity, etc. There is huge heated debate whether or not the war on terror abused the human rights. Despite the opposing views, I believe the war on terror somehow neglected the human rights and in turn resulted in its abuse.
Some of the Americans believe that war on terror is not about cruelty to human beings and torturing or killing them but to bring those criminals who were behind the killing of more than 3000 innocent people in 9/11 tragic episode and may propose such appalling commencement of hostilities in future. The 2009’s announcement, in which the Obama administration read out that five more terrorists would be brought to justice in courts, is a proof for the aforementioned phenomenon. Moreover, most of Americans believed that a hard-hitting and tough action was needed in response of attacks on America to prevent U.S citizens from further antagonistic incidents and take revenge of what already has been done. For example, president G.W.Bush’s famous doctrine “You are with us or against us” towards other countries after the attack, was a signal of the U.S’s tough response to the terrorism. In addition, some political thinkers believe it is in nation’s interest to torture terrorists to save millions of lives from next tragedy and capture its masterminds. Treatment of prisoners in Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay prisons is an example of such ideology. Finally, majority of Americans believed that the war on terror was not against a particular sect of society and was not based on racism. President Bush’s quote is an evidence to this quo when he said, “The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics; a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam.”
It is unquestionable that the 9/11 grievous occurrence was a disaster and its perpetrators should be brought to justice, however, statistics shows that about 8,800 Americans have been killed and 54,800 wounded in war on terror, which include both soldiers and civilians. As we can observe that the mortality and casualty rate is higher in war on terror than of those attacks. Furthermore, an estimated 20,000 to 49,600 afghan civilians have been killed in invasion of spring 2002. More than 7000 Somalions lost their lives in war on terror. Iraq has been the deadliest of all which sacrificed about 62,570 to 1,124,000 of its civilians. Other countries, such as, Turkey, Pakistan, Zaire, Chad, Indonesia, Peru, Chile
, and Afghanistan also have an abundance of such civilian victims.
A few years ago you read about the plight of women at the hands of American-led forces in Afghanistan. This would most likely have made sense in a relatively open Western environment, but only because it had been a long while since any such efforts were done at all. And now, you just see that the results are being recorded. The Afghan Taliban are already killing all the women and girls in their ranks of the Army and Navy who are deployed there. One of the best known examples was a woman named Karoun El-Jamal who was stabbed in the back of the head by Afghan Taliban soldiers. As we can observe in our own country, such actions can be lethal and cause many to lose their life under the Afghan Taliban flag. The number of people killed in NATO-mandated military operations in Afghanistan, which are based solely on the reports provided by the Afghan police, the US government, and their commanders has more than doubled since 2009, in spite of a lack of data or accountability. It may be that, as more and more information comes out about these types of deaths and those of wounded civilians, more and more the Taliban will be able to go after all these civilians without even taking a single death from Afghans while American leaders continue to continue their war for a greater variety of purposes.
In other words, American and the international community now have a great opportunity to save the lives of many Americans by making sure Americans do the right amount of reporting, and of protecting others. The only ones more likely to do that in the future are the civilians, to whom it is most easy to do it. It is up to you to decide whether you will have the courage to help. And while there are other ways that you can take advantage of the opportunities available, we are sure that you will want to focus more on supporting women and girls and to improve their education, experience and professional development, in the meantime you will be making some real contribution to this struggle.
And with that statement of yours,
We need your help
A couple more things here: First is that these casualties are from the same war as were already present in Iraq. Some of the most recent casualty numbers from the Afghan forces, including the number of those killed and injured, as well as this latest one that comes from the US/NATO, are reported back to me in the UK in the form of information. I take full responsibility for the data, which came from the Afghan forces. All the reported data available about Afghan casualties in Afghanistan is not directly from me, but rather, it comes from US/NATO. So the figures only include those reported by Iwo Jima to US and British forces after the attack by