Local authorities and aid agencies angry at exclusion from probe into attack matching SAS raid. Afghanistan's Human Rights investigators wrote about the deaths in a 2011 report, describing similar circumstances to those alleged in Hit & Run, the book released this week by investigative journalists Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson. The report was issued jointly by the Human Rights Unit of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA Human Rights) with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in 2011. It reported that during 2010 there were 2777 civilians killed in Afghanistan, with 2080 attributed to Anti-Government Elements, and 440 deaths to Pro-Government Forces. Hager and Stephenson released their book, Hit & Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan and the meaning of honour on Tuesday.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 24, 2017 15:56 UTC