At a regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 17, a reporter asked: Recently, the U.S. Department of Defense decided not to impose any form of punishment on military personnel who participated in a drone attack in Kabul, Afghanistan and killed 10 civilians.
Earlier this year, a former US Air Force intelligence officer who witnessed the indiscriminate killing of Afghan civilians by US drones was sentenced to 45 months in prison for revealing relevant information to reporters.
What is the spokesperson's comment on this?
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the US military personnel who killed civilians in Afghanistan will not be punished, but those who exposed the truth of the incident will be held accountable; US military personnel who committed war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other places will be exempt from prosecution, and those who expose these crimes The publisher Assange may face life imprisonment; the innocent Afghan people who died in the U.S. drone project sleep forever, their families suffer the pain of losing their loved ones forever, but the perpetrators are at large.
"This is the bloody reality brought to the world by American'democracy' and'human rights'."
Wang Wenbin said that the US military's crimes of indiscriminate killing of civilians around the world should be investigated.
The United States does everything possible to conceal the truth and suppress the "whistleblower," and it should be condemned even more.
"We call on the international community to take action to investigate and punish the U.S. military for deliberately undermining the international rule of law and indiscriminately killing innocent civilians, so that the perpetrators can be severely punished, justice can be done, and the human rights of people of all countries, especially people in developing countries, can be effectively protected and punished. Guarantee." (produced by Wang Jiayi)
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