Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Human Rights Watch Pukes Swoop In To Condemn Pakistani Military Offensive


You know, the pock-faced punks at Human Rights Watch, yes...the same group that spent months in Gaza trying to pin war crimes on the Israelis, have turned up in Pakistan's Swat Valley now in an effort to save the terrrorist Taliban from further harm. Nothing gets my blood boiling more than these momma's boys who hover over every military conflict in the world and spout off about "those poor civilians." Where was Human Rights Watch the past 18 months when civilians were being killed, beheaded and maimed by the Taliban? Where was Human Rights Watch when Pakistani girls were being bombed in their schools or had acid thrown in their face by the Taliban? Nowhere is where they were. They were sitting in their New York City apartments watching "Ellen" - but as soon as the Pakistani military makes a move to try and rout the Taliban, here come the scum of Human Rights Watch to sound the humanitarian alarm. If there's any justice in the world, half a dozen of these asswipes will be kidnapped by the Taliban and left crying for help from the Pakistani army.

By the way, it's worth noting that this story comes from the biggest defender of terrorists in the world, Reuters.

Here's most of the story from Reuters:


Pakistanis in Swat "face catastrophe" as clashes spread

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Pakistani civilians trapped by an offensive against the Taliban in Swat face catastrophe, a rights group said on Tuesday, as fighting flared in another militant-plagued region.
The offensive in the Taliban bastion of Swat, about 120 km (80 miles) northwest of Islamabad, is the military's most concerted effort to roll back a spreading Taliban insurgency that has thrown the nuclear-armed country's future into question.
The offensive has sparked an exodus of 2.3 million people, according to provincial government figures, but about 200,000 people are believed to be still in the valley.
Severe shortages of food, water and medicine were creating a major humanitarian crisis for the trapped civilians, the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch said.
"People trapped in the Swat conflict zone face a humanitarian catastrophe unless the Pakistani military immediately lifts a curfew that has been in place continuously for the last week," Brad Adams, the group's Asia director, said in a statement.
The army launched the offensive this month after the militants, emboldened by a controversial peace deal in Swat, pushed out of the former tourist valley into neighboring districts, including one just 100 km (60 miles) from Islamabad.
The United States, which needs Pakistani action against militants in its northwest to defeat al Qaeda and disrupt support for the Taliban in Afghanistan, had criticized the pact as tantamount to "abdicating" to the militants.
The United States, which is pouring thousands of extra troops into Afghanistan to try to reverse Taliban gains, has welcomed the army's bid to clear Swat.
But the flight of so many civilians poses not only a major burden for an economy being kept afloat by a $7.6 billion International Monetary Fund loan, but could also undercut public backing for the military action.
Human Rights Watch said it was getting persistent reports of civilian casualties from army shelling and air attacks, as well as reports of summary executions of civilians by Taliban.
The government should take all possible measures including air drops of food, water, and medicine to alleviate the suffering and both sides should allow a humanitarian corridor through which civilians could escape and aid groups could help, it said.
Military spokesmen were not available for comment.

2 comments:

Sharku said...

The government should take all possible measures including air drops of food, water, and medicine to alleviate the suffering and both sides should allow a humanitarian corridor through which civilians could escape and aid groups could help, it said.Several things are wrong with the thinking in that paragraph.

1) Air drops of supplies would not get to the civilians in need, the taliwhackers would grab the stuff for themselves or use said aid to to gain either support or money from the civilians.

2) Like the taliban will allow civilians to leave when they are used as either propaganda by the number of casualties, or as shields from US predators or paki artillery.

No matter what, war sucks for the civilians caught up in it. It is their fault for letting the situation get out of hand by tolerating these fucks in their midst.

Holger Awakens said...

Shark,

I couldn't agree more with what you've said here. Great take on things!

:Holger Danske