To Which Dick Cheney Will Say: "So What?"

“Thousands of Afghans have been killed or injured by US forces since the invasion, but the victims and their families have little chance of redress. The US military justice system almost always fails to hold its soldiers accountable for unlawful killings and other abuses,” said Richard Bennett, Amnesty International’s Asia Pacific Director.

“None of the cases that we looked into – involving more than 140 civilian deaths – were prosecuted by the US military. Evidence of possible war crimes and unlawful killings has seemingly been ignored.”

[An  Amnesty International] 108-page report released on Monday focuses mostly on night raids and airstrikes conducted by NATO’s troops and individual US agencies like the Special Operations Forces. Amnesty investigated 10 incidents that took place between 2009 and 2013, in which Afghan civilians were killed. The human rights organization talked to some 125 witnesses, victims and family members to prepare the report. Some of them had never had the chance to give testimony before.

In two of the cases involving US and Afghan forces there is abundant and compelling evidence of war crimes, including enforced disappearances, torture, and killings of civilians, Amnesty said. Nobody was ever prosecuted for either of the incidents.

  RT

And it will ever be thus.