Iran Press/ Asia: The former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai hit out at the US government and its military’s legacy on Afghanistan's people.Karzai previously criticized night raids on rural villages carried out by US forces and their Afghan allies.
“To the US government, to the US military, we say you were very heavy-handed against the Afghan people,” he said. “You bombed our villages and this brought immense suffering to the people of this country."
“So 18 years on, we have mixed feelings of gratitude to the international community for providing money to Afghanistan and one of anger at the way we were treated as a people,” Karzai said.
Karzai said it was time for Afghans “to take responsibility” for their future and “live by our own means.”
He was installed as Afghanistan’s first post-Taliban leader in 2001 after the US-led coalition started its war against the Taliban, ostensibly in retaliation for the September 11 attack, and ruled until 2014.
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