{"id":15586,"date":"2012-12-17T22:06:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=15586"},"modified":"2012-12-17T22:06:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:06:06","slug":"unexploded-ordnance-kills-10-afghan-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/12\/unexploded-ordnance-kills-10-afghan-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexploded Ordnance Kills 10 Afghan Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/2012\/12\/17\/unexploded-ordnance-kills-10-afghan-children\/afghanistan-troops-kids\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15587\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15587\" alt=\"Afghanistan-troops-kids\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/afghanistan-troops-kids.jpg?resize=441%2C293\" width=\"441\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 id=\"pagesub\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Ten Afghan girls between the ages of 9 and 13 were killed, and two others wounded in critical condition<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Ten Afghan girls, aged from nine to 13,\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/dec\/17\/afghan-bomb-blast-kills-10-girls\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">were killed<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Monday when an unexploded bomb or landmine detonated as they were out gathering firewood near their village in eastern Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Years of war have made Afghanistan one of the most heavily landmined countries in the world and, as has been the case in Indochina, unexploded US bombs will continue to kill and maim innocent Afghanistan for years, probably decades, to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">In addition to the ten girls killed, two more young girls were seriously wounded and in critical condition according to the Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">War has left Afghanistan \u201cwith 6,000 known hazardous areas, danger zones that disrupt farming, housing, resettlement and development in 1,900 communities across Afghanistan,\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2012-07-28\/news\/bs-md-unexploded-afghanistan-20120727_1_afghanistan-ordnance-explosive-remnants\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">reported<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0Matthew Hay Brown at\u00a0<em>The Baltimore Sun<\/em>\u00a0back in July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cAn average of 33 people per month were injured or killed in Afghanistan last year by such munitions. More than half the victims were boys ages 7 to 14,\u201d Brown added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/12\/17\/unexploded-ordnance-kills-10-afghan-children\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Afghan girls between the ages of 9 and 13 were killed, and two others wounded in critical condition Ten Afghan girls, aged from nine..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21,189,119],"tags":[295,197,226],"class_list":["post-15586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","category-us-military","category-war","tag-afghanistan","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/afghanistan-troops-kids.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}