Home Afghan Holocaust & Afghan Genocide This site is dedicated to informing people about the ongoing, US Alliance-imposed Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide that as of 2012 is associated with post- 2001 violent and non-violent avoidable deaths totalling 7.2 million and Afghan and Pashtun refugees totalling 5-6 million an Afghan Holocaust ( a huge number of deaths) and an Afghan Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Geneva Convention (see: http ://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/genocide /convention.html ) which states: In the present Convention , genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy , in whole or in part, a national , ethnic , racial or religious group , as such: a) Killing members of the group ; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group ; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group ; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group . Afghan history 1900-2009. Afghan history , in the 20th and 21st centuries , 1900-2009, is summarized in the following extract from Gideon Polya, Body Count . Global avoidable mortality since 1950 (G.M. Polya, Melbourne , 2007) [additional comments in square brackets ]: 1907, Anglo-Russian Agreement ; British control of Afghan foreign affairs ; WW1 , neutral ;; 1919, Third Afghan War , Afghanistan invaded India; Afghanistan recovered control of foreign affairs ; WW2 , neutral ; 1973, military coup ; enlightened republic [very little opium grown before 1978 US intervention under later Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jimmy Carter ]; 1978, coup installed a communist government; communist leader Taraki killed and US-backed Amin installed ; USSR invaded ; 1979-1989, Afghanistan War , Russians versus US-backed mujaheddin ; 50,000 Russians died and millions of Afghans (1979-1989 Afghanistan excess mortality 2.9 million); 1992, Kabul captured ; 1994-1999, Pashtun Islamic fundamentalist religious student militia , the Taliban , conquered all but the Northern Alliance areas , notably those held by Massoud ; 1996, Kabul captured by the Taliban ; 1997, Taliban banned smoking by civil servants and soldiers ; 1998, US cruise missile attacks over Afghan refusal to hand over Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (accused of the 1998 Kenya and Tanzania US embassy bombings ); 1999, UN-brokered peace between the Taliban and Massoud ; 1 million dead , 3 million refugees (1989-1999 excess mortality 3.3 million); 2000, Taliban banned opium poppy growing (a major financial source for Afghan farmers); 2001, virtually no more opium grown in Afghanistan ; September 11, World Trade Centre attacks ; October , US invasion after massive bombing [no Afghans were involved in 9/11 according to the US official version of 9/11 and the US rejected the Taliban Afghan Government offer to give alleged perpetrator Osama bin Laden to a Third Country ]; 2002, Taliban largely defeated ; Kabul area protected by NATO forces ; most of country reverted to war lords ; opium poppy production back to normal by mid- 2002 (76% of world opium production ); 2005, Taliban resurgence ; continuing war; still 3 million Afghan refugees despite 2.4 million repatriated ; opium production over 90% of the world total [in 2009 93% of world total ] (2001-2005 Afghanistan excess mortality 1.7 million; 2001-2005, global opioid drug deaths about 0.4 million) [US president Obama expanded war to NW Pakistan with predator drones , US-backed Pakistani warfare and huge expansion of US forces after award of Nobel peace prize in 2009; as of December 2009 2001-2009 Afghan excess mortality 4.5 million; 2001-2009 global opioid deaths 0.7 million; Afghan and Pashtun refugees 5-6 million]. Foreign occupation : Britain (pre-1950); Russia , US (post- 1950); post- 1950 foreign military presence : Russia , US , Australia , UK and Canadian and German NATO forces ; post- 1950 [1990-2005] excess mortality /2005 population = 16.609m/25.971m = 64.0%; post- 1950 [1990-2005] under-5 infant mortality /2005 population = 11.514m/25.971m = 44.3%. A note on calculation of post-invasion non-violent excess deaths (non-violent avoidable deaths) in Occupied Afghanistan . As spelled out in great detail in my book Body Count . Avoidable mortality since 1950 (see: http ://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/ ) , excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) for a country in a given period is the difference between the observed mortality and the mortality expected for a peaceful, decently governed country with the same demographics . For Occupied Afghanistan in 2005-2010, annual crude death rate in deaths per 1,000 of population per year was 19.7 as compared to an average of about 4 for good high birth rate Developing countries (e.g. for peaceful, only partially-occupied, impoverished Syria it is 3.4) (see UN Population Division : http ://esa.un.org/unpp /index.asp?panel =2 ). Accordingly, the avoidable death rate for Occupied Afghanistan in 2005-2010 (mid- 2005 to mid- 2010) is19.7-4.0 = 15.7 deaths per 1000 of population per year . The average population of Occupied Afghanistan 2005-2010 was (24.507 million + 29.117 million)/2 = 26.812 million (see UN Population Division : http ://esa.un.org/unpp /index.asp?panel =2 ). Accordingly, the avoidable deaths in Occupied Afghanistan in the period 2005-2010 = 15.7 avoidable deaths per thousand population per year x 26,812 thousand population x 5 years = 2,104,742 = about 2.1 million. Application of the same analysis to the period October 2001-January 2014 yields an estimate of 28.4 million x 15.7 avoidable deaths per thousand population per year x 12.25 years = 5.5 million post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied Afghanistan . Violent deaths, non-violent avoidable deaths, infant deaths , massive child stunting and refugees in Afghan Holocaust & Afghan Genocide . As of January 2014 deaths from the Afghanistan War include approximately 7 million violent and non-violent excess deaths of Indigenous Afghans since 2001 and 3,417 US Alliance deaths (see: http ://icasualties org /oif/ ). As of January 2014 it is estimated from the latest UN Population Division data that in Occupied Afghanistan post-invasion non-violent excess deaths total 5.5 million. Assuming expert US-Australian advice that the level of violence has been 4 times lower in the Afghan War than in the Iraq War where the ratio of violent deaths to non-violent avoidable deaths was 1.5 million/1.2million = 1.25, then post-invasion violent deaths in Afghanistan can be estimated at 1.25 x 5.5 million/4 = 1.7 million. Post-invasion violent and non-violent avoidable deaths total 5.5 million plus 1.7 million = 7.2 million; and post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 3.0 million (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in gross violence of the Geneva Convention Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War demand that a