A Taliban Attack on Children Causes Outrage, Everywhere but at Peace Talks
By Fatima Faizi and Rod Nordland
July 2, 2019
KABUL, Afghanistan — Even by the standards of Afghanistan’s long war, the Taliban attack near a school that wounded dozens of schoolchildren on Monday stood out as unusually brutal, and expressions of outrage came thick and fast from governments around the world.
But from Doha, the Qatari capital where American negotiators were meeting with Taliban officials in a seventh round of talks, now in their fourth day, there was publicly only silence on the assault.
Several of the earlier rounds of talks, which began in earnest this year, also coincided with attacks in Afghanistan, where more than 32,000 civilians have been killed in the last decade of the war, now in its 18th year. Most of those deaths have been blamed on the insurgents, a result of indiscriminate bombings and suicide attacks.
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/world/asia/taliban-school-attack.html
Not a bad article, imho. I don't see it blaming anyone. Just presenting facts.
