Russian Satellite News Agency reported that recently, Afghan sources revealed to the media that an Afghan policeman killed 6 law enforcement officers in Kunduz Province, the northern country, and directly surrendered to Taliban . The incident occurred at a checkpoint, and the Taliban armed forces later claimed responsibility.
Logically speaking, since the multinational coalition led by the United States launched the Afghan War , the main body of the war should have been the multinational coalition forces stationed in Afghanistan and the Taliban armed forces, but what is interesting is that the biggest casualties in recent years are not both, but Afghanistan The number of casualties in the military and police forces under the control of the current government is breathtaking.
The Afghan Times once reported that in 2015 alone, about 5,000 Afghan military and police died, and 15,000 were injured; in 2016, the death toll was 5,523, and about 9,665 were injured.
Based on the data in the above two years, it can be seen that since the outbreak of the Afghan War, the number of casualties of its government military and police alone may have exceeded 200,000. According to statistics from the US military at the same time, they have eliminated more than 20,000 Taliban armed forces so far, but the death toll of the US coalition forces is less than 3,000. From this point of view, the US military's "anti-terrorism" results in Afghanistan are quite brilliant.
However, in fact, the statistics of the US military never explain the casualties of the Afghan military and police. They just said lightly that the number of civilian casualties caused by the Taliban armed forces is about 300,000, which means that the Afghan military and police officers The casualties have been counted among civilian casualties by the United States.
However, according to the person related to Afghan National Army , since the US coalition's attack on the Taliban in 2001 and the end of its military operation in 2004 after it fled into the mountains, the remaining ten years have been Afghan government forces. The police are maintaining public order and carrying out the mission of encircling and suppressing the Taliban.
In other words, since 2004, the US coalition has been hiding in relatively safe military bases for most of the time, either training or commanding the Afghan National Army to fight and rarely directly participate in military operations. To put it bluntly, the current Afghan military and police are theoretically "mercenaries" serving the American coalition.
It is precisely because of this that the number of Taliban armed forces eliminated by the Afghan military and police is actually far higher than that of the US coalition. Under such circumstances, the Afghan military and police naturally became the role of "grandma doesn't love her uncles." On the one hand, the United States regards it as a thug hired by money.
to a certain extent does not cherish and do not trust the Afghan military and police. On the other hand, Afghan military and police have also become "thorns in the eyes" of the Taliban armed forces, and even in the eyes of the people, they are also "lack dogs" serving foreigners. To sum up, it is obvious that the Afghan military and police are currently on the target of public criticism, and heavy casualties are inevitable.
Let’s talk about the recent infiltration and anti-killing incidents, which not only has become a normal way for the Taliban to hunt down the "enemy", but also makes the Afghan police the most dangerous "law enforcement officer" in the world. For example, in 2006, five Afghan policemen killed seven colleagues and then defected to the Taliban.
In 2009, an Afghan policeman was shot dead after beating and injured 8 colleagues; in 2012, an Afghan policeman shot and killed nine colleagues after poisoning and defected to the Taliban; in December of the same year, 12 more Afghan policemen were killed by their colleagues; Shooting; in 2017, eight Afghan police officers were also shot and killed by their colleagues.
Objectively speaking, the above "blue attack on blue" infiltration and counter-killing incidents are much more than in news reports, which leads to the current Afghan police not only being careful when eating, but also having to send one to monitor every two police officers on duty. . Even sleeping normally is like going to the battlefield, which is simply a panic.
