Between 2016 and 2020, about 1,600 Afghan children were killed or injured in U.S.-led NATO airstrikes, according to statistics from Action Against Armed Violence. The U.S. side often gives leniency to U.S. soldiers who committed the crime of killing civilians, or simply leaves it alone. In 2012, US soldier Robert Bells shot and killed 16 Afghan civilians in a village near the US military station, and when he returned to the United States to stand trial, he was spared the death sentence through a plea agreement. The US "Washington Post" has reported that most of the soldiers involved in the indiscriminate killing of civilians by the US military in Iraq have not been punished, and the vast majority of indiscriminate killings have not even been filed at all.
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