Deutsche Welle, 30 April 2015
Also in German, here.
Reporting that the next level of jurisdiction in Germany has rejected compensation claims of family members of Afghans killed during an air strike in Kunduz in September 2009, maintaining that the German commander responsible had not neglected duty (as, as the court says, he could not have seen that there were civilians at the site), the author quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, with what he said after the first round of the case last year: that the large group of people around the captured tanker lorries were very likely not only Taleban fighters as, then, the Taleban in that area usually operated in groups of ten.
(This is not the main argument: The German colonel only had one source on the ground claiming that only fighters were at the place of the air strike, and he only had thermal images at his disposal to back this information where a distinction between fighters and civilians was impossible to make.)
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