Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Afghans at court-martial describe pain from massacre by U.S. soldier

Courtroom sketch of Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales and attorney John Henry Browne during a pre-sentencing hearing in Tacoma Washington By Jonathan Kaminsky TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - An Afghan teenager who survived a rampage by a U.S. soldier who killed 16 unarmed civilians last year testified on Tuesday about the pain of losing his grandmother, at the start of a sentencing trial for the man behind the carnage. The teenager, who was shot in the legs and whose sister was also seriously wounded and now suffers nightmares, was among a group of Afghan victims of the violence flown to the United States to testify on the impact of the killings. ...








via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/afghans-court-martial-describe-pain-massacre-u-soldier-014703207.html

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