In addition to financial compensation, the Pentagon spokesman offered to help Ezmarai Ahmadi’s family members who would like to settle in the United States.
Le Monde with AFP
After excuses deemed “insufficient”, the United States proposed to financially compensate the relatives of Afghan civilians killed by “error” during a US drone shot at the end of August in Kabul, announced the spokesman of the Pentagon Friday October 15th.
At a virtual meeting between Steven Kwon, President of the NGO who employed one of the victims, Ezmarai Ahmadi, and Colin Kahl, Defense Policy Proposed, the latter proposed “financial compensation” For families, John Kirby said in a statement. The amount of this compensation has not been specified.
The US manager has also offered to help “Mr. Ahmadi’s family members who would like to settle in the United States”.
Colin Kahl pointed out that “the typing was a tragic error, and Ezmarai Ahmadi as well as those who were killed were innocent victims who had nothing to reproach and were not affiliated with the Islamic state. Khorasan (ei-k) or threats for US forces “.
” A tragic error “
On 29 August, the United States destroyed a Toyota Corolla white vehicle, saying it was “charged with explosives” and assuring having thus foiled an attempt to attack Ei-K, a few days later An attack of this group that had killed thirteen American soldiers and a hundred Afghans near Kabul airport.
According to General McKenzie, who directed the US forces in Afghanistan before their withdrawal from the country, a car of this model parked that morning near a building that was already considered a lair of the Ei-k.
The next day, the vehicle driver’s family, Ezmarai Ahmadi, reported that he was employed by an NGO and ten people, of whom up to seven children had been killed. A searched New York Times survey, based on images of surveillance cameras and interviews, also challenged the version of the army.
On September 17, the army acknowledged that this typing was “a tragic error”. Unlike the initial affirmations of the army, the “explosives” were probably only harmless water cans and the driver of the vehicle, a peaceful father, had nothing of a jihadist, according to an investigation.
The American Minister of Defense, Lloyd Austin, presented his “sincere condolences” and his “apologies” for this burr. Excuses deemed “insufficient” by the relatives of Afghan civilians killed during the typing.