KABUL — Afghan protesters marched through downtown Kabul on Sunday morning, chanting anti-American slogans and denouncing NATO bombardments that have killed civilians.
Led by a police escort, the 200 or so demonstrators carried banners calling the United States the “guardian and master of (the) ruling Mafia in Afghanistan” as well as images of burned and bandaged children.
The protesters said they were angry not only about the civilian toll from NATO military operations in Helmand province but also about a traffic accident involving a sport utility vehicle driven by DynCorp International contractors that killed four Afghans.
After the traffic accident Friday near the U.S. Embassy, an angry crowd surrounded the DynCorp vehicle and set it on fire. DynCorp employees who arrived to help were attacked, and their vehicle was torched.
Also Sunday, Afghan officials said six people died when a minibus hit a roadside bomb in Kandahar province.
