A shocking UN report says that last year there were more civilians killed or wounded in Afghanistan than in any year since 2009. The 87-page report reveals the statistics on the yearly cull of civilians, the beheadings, executions by single shot, kidnapping of women, ransom that has come to define a state of terror and depravity prevalent in modern Afghanistan. According to Robert Fisk, the veteran Middle Eastern correspondent for The Independent: “I have long nursed the suspicion that Taliban units, Isis and government militias are not fighting about religion or government at all, more about mafia power”. The Independent reports: In 2015 alone, 3,545 civilians were killed and 7,457 injured. Since 2009, the total civilian dead – not soldiers, militiamen or Taliban – comes to 21,323 dead. And this, remember, is the graveyard of empires into which we blithely trod after 9/11 on the basis that we would not “forget” Afghanistan again. We would see it through to the end. The Taliban, in the words of a Canadian commander, were “scumbags”. Our soldiers would not die in vain. And it has come to this. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is a very professional institution. It has rigourously [...]