Will Norway Apologize to Bola Boluk?
We can hardly expect the Norwegians to rescind their creepy gift to Obama and, through him, to the American Empire. But maybe we could ask them to issue an apology to the people of Bola Boluk. Obama’s escalation of attacks on “insurgents” who live intermingled with civilians has brought a predictable increase in “collateral damage” in South Asia. An especially graphic episode came in the first week of May 2009. That’s when U.S. air-strikes killed more than 140 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 22 were males 18 years or older. As the New York Times reported: “In a phone call played on a loudspeaker on Wednesday to outraged members of the Afghan Parliament,” The New York Times reported, “the governor of Farah Province…said that as many as 130 civilians had been killed.” According to the governor,” the villagers bought two tractor trailers full of pieces of huma
