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Common Dreams
February 22, 2018
Within less than half a year of his inauguration, Obama's rapidly accumulating record of atrocities in the Muslim world would include the bombing of the Afghan village of Bola Boluk. Ninety-three of the dead villagers torn apart by U.S. explosives in Bola Boluk were children. “In a phone call played on aÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
August 3, 2017
*Bola Boluk: an Afghan village where U.S. bombers blew 113 civilians (including dozens of children) to bits in May of 2009. * The U.S. drone war program (2001 to present), aptly described by Noam Chomsky as “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times”: The Bureau of Investigative JournalismÃâà...
CounterPunch
April 6, 2016
Obama had blasted her village in May of 2009. In the first week of that month, the president's air-strikes killed well more than 100 noncombatants in Bola Boluk, located in western Afghanistan's Farah Province. Ninety-three of the dead villagers torn apart by U.S. explosives were children. Just 22 were malesÃâà...
CounterPunch
December 22, 2015
Within less than half a year of his Inauguration, Obama's rapidly accumulating record of atrocities in the Muslim world would include the bombing of the Afghan village of Bola Boluk Ninety-three of the dead villagers torn apart by U.S. explosives in Bola Boluk were children. “In a phone call played on aÃâà...
teleSUR English
January 14, 2015
That's when U.S. air-strikes killed one hundred and forty civilians in Bola Boluk, a village in western Afghanistan's Farah Province. Ninety-three of the dead villagers torn apart by U.S. explosives were children. Just twenty two were males 18 years or older. The province's governor told the Afghan ParliamentÃâà...
Black Agenda Report
January 20, 2010
In the first week of that month, the president's air-strikes killed more than 140 civilians in Bola Boluk, located in western Afghanistan's Farah Province. Ninety-three of the dead villagers torn apart by U.S. explosives were children. Just 22 were males 18 years or older. As the New York Times reported:.
TIME
May 25, 2009
Criticized around the world and beset by demonstrations in Afghanistan, the U.S. military continues to dispute the high death-toll estimates in Bola Boluk. But even so, it is low-key tragedies like Benafsha's that are adding up. According to United Nations figures, of the 2,118 Afghan civilians killed in 2008Ãâà...
