Afghan parliament members on Thursday expressed anger over the U.S. move to fly an American soldier accused of killing 16 civilians out of the country to Kuwait.
The Afghan House of Representatives urged the Afghan government that the trial of the rogue US soldier should be carried out inside Afghanistan.
They also urged the Afghan government to prevent signing a long term strategic cooperation agreement with Washington unless the US soldier does not face justice in the country.
An Afghan parliament member Abdul Khaliq presenting the southern Kandahar province where the massacre took place said, the soldier should be tried inside Afghanistan and this is the best way to show Afghans that US want to punish the rogue soldier.
Another Afghan parliament Mohammad Naeem Lalai Hamidzai warned that further tensions could be sparked if the trial for the soldier was carried out in the country.
In the meantime more than 1,000 Afghans took to the streets in a southern town on Thursday to protest the killing of 16 civilians in a murderous rampage by a US soldier.
A spoksman for provincial police in southern Zabul province said, the demonstrators poured into the main town of Qalat in Zabul and started shouting anti-America slogans.
This comes as the American soldier accused of shooting 16 Afghan villagers in a pre-dawn killing spree was flown out of Afghanistan on Wednesday to Kuwait.
Navy Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman in Washington said, the soldier was taken out of the country “based on a legal recommendation”.
Kirby said, “We do not have appropriate detention facilities in Afghanistan”, explaining that he was referring to a facility for a US service member “in this kind of case”.
Kirby said the transfer did not necessarily mean the trial would be held outside Afghanistan, but the other military official said legal proceedings would continue outside Afghanistan.


