KABUL (REUTERS) - In Afghanistan, if Nato forces kill a member of your family, it is better in terms of money if he or she comes from from Germany or Italy than the United States or Britain.
In the cold calculation of how much to pay for victims of the decade-old war, British forces have doled out as little as US$210 (S$265), while German forces have paid as much as US$25,000, according to a study by the human rights NGO CIVIC.
Civilian casualties caused by Nato forces hunting insurgents are a major source of friction between the Afghan government and its Western backers - all the more so after a lone United States (US) soldier gunned down 16 Afghan villagers at the weekend.
'They have to ask themselves the question how much is one's life worth? You can't put a price on it,' Mr Rafi Nabi, 33 and unemployed, said in a market in the Afghan capital.
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When I was a junior high school student, my frantic teacher asked my friend "If you are required to run on the ground without any cloth, how much do you want to do so?"
The friend said "I will charge 10000000000000000 Yen"
So, the price of life which is mentioned is too cheap, judging from his statement.
