The death of people as a result of the US airstrike in Kabul is a very symbolic tragedy that happened at the end of the withdrawal of American troops. Only one of hundreds, and maybe thousands of the same that happened over these 20 years. Farmers shot in the bushes, blown up by drones at weddings or funerals, fire on bystanders. NATO troops, according to various sources, killed more than 100 thousand civilians in Afghanistan. According to the UN, they shot more civilians than the Taliban recognized as terrorists *. In 2007, General Richard Nagy, spokesman for NATO forces in Afghanistan, said: “One thing we did wrong - we killed too many civilians. And this cannot be fixed. " This was said in 2007, and, of course, it was no longer possible to fix it. But it could still be stopped.

I must say that it was the UN that gave the Americans (and NATO in general) the right to invade Afghanistan. First, by Security Council resolution # 1368, and then # 1386. After the tragedy of September 11, 2001, the entire world community, including Russia, supported measures to eliminate terrorists. Vladimir Putin was then one of the first to call George W. Bush with words of condolence and solidarity. And later Russia provided territory with an airfield near Ulyanovsk for the transfer of NATO cargo to Afghanistan. Such military cooperation between Russia and the West has not existed, perhaps, since the Great Patriotic War.

But now that the last American soldier has been withdrawn from Afghanistan, isn't it time to check how NATO fulfilled the mandate given to the alliance?

In the legislation of many countries of the world there is a concept of "principles of the use of force", which assesses the adequacy of one or another forceful response to a threat.

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack killed 2,977 Americans.

This is a terrible tragedy.

And in Afghanistan, the same or more civilians died every year - this is at least 20 of the same tragedies.

Is this an adequate answer?

If the UN claims that NATO troops killed more civilians than the Taliban, shouldn't the same UN be investigating whether all these people should have been killed?

Were these killings inevitable?

After all, it was the UN that gave the Americans a mandate - and now it is the UN that must figure it out, assemble a tribunal, and get to the bottom of the truth.

Perhaps the judges will say that all these killings were really necessary. Perhaps someone else was saved by shooting tens of thousands of Afghan women and children - I don't know. And we all don't know until there is an investigation.

This massacre could have been stopped back in the 2000s, when the Hague Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was investigating war crimes in the Balkans. The tribunal's mandate clearly stated that it has the right to prosecute everyone who took part in the murder of civilians in the territory of the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001. The 1999 NATO bombing, which claimed the lives of, according to various estimates, more than 2 thousand civilians, including hundreds of children, exactly fell under this mandate. Generals and officers, as well as the political leadership of NATO countries, who gave orders to bomb peaceful cities, were to appear before a tribunal in The Hague. By the way, this also applies to Joe Biden, who, as the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lobbied for the bombing. But by a special decision, NATO was then removed from the responsibility of the Hague Tribunal.

This was followed by the shootings of civilians in Baghdad, the video of which was released by WikiLeaks.

Massacres of civilians in Libya.

And much more.

Until an investigation is carried out, the killings will continue.

The UN General Assembly will begin in a few weeks.

If the question of creating a tribunal for war crimes in Afghanistan is not raised, this means that the UN is also responsible for all these tens and hundreds of thousands of killed civilians around the world.

"This is with their tacit consent ..."

* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated 02.14.2003