Scraping through the wreckage of his brother’s flattened house, Gulhan heard a faint voice.
“Mother, I am alive, I am under the dust,” came the plea for help. “Come and take me out.” The voice was that of Gulhan’s four-year-old nephew, Farmanullah, who was buried beneath rocks and the bodies of five siblings. Amid the carnage, he had suffered only minor injuries.
Yet, two weeks later, Nato has kept to a line that it has no evidence that civilians were killed in the air strike, although relatives and Afghan officials confirm that it has privately admitted fault. In a week