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\n<\/span><\/p>\nThe US Army has apologised for graphic photographs of US soldiers grinning over the corpses of Afghan civilians they had allegedly killed.<\/p>\n
The photos published by Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine were said to be among many seized by US Army investigators.<\/p>\n
An army statement said the photographs were “repugnant” but were already being used as evidence in a court martial. <\/p>\n
Afghan civilian deaths at the hands of foreign forces is a highly sensitive issue in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
These photographs are purported to have been taken by a “rogue” US Army unit in Afghanistan in 2010. <\/p>\n
Such images are only going to exacerbate tensions between the Afghan government and the people on the one hand and the US-led coalition on the other, says the BBC’s Paul Wood in Kabul. <\/p>\n
US court martial<\/span><\/p>\nIt is unclear exactly when the photographs published were taken.<\/p>\n
They show two soldiers kneeling over a body. They each hold the face of the dead person up to the camera by grabbing his hair and turning his head. One of the American soldiers is grinning.<\/p>\n
The US Army said these photographs depict “actions repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States Army”. <\/p>\n
“The actions portrayed in these photographs remain under investigation and are now the subject of ongoing US court-martial proceedings, in which the accused are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty,” it added.<\/p>\n
Soldiers who are convicted will be held accountable as appropriate, the army says.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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