Let's think back to the days when Iraq's Saddam Hussein was in power and how, in the dead of night, an Iraqi assassination team would steal into a Kurdish village and randomly kill 20 to 30 people and then steal away. Or let's recall the small villages that Hussein would use to test his nerve gas - the Kurdish villages would then be scoured to document the effectiveness of the toxins and to examine the dead Kurds taking note of what exactly each died of.
Well, we are seeing the same ethnic cleansing in Pakistan. Today. This time it is the Punjabi speaking people of Pakistan - Punjab is an area along the India/Pakistan border in which the people have a distinctive language and it is obviously a target for the insurgents in Pakistan.
It's hard for me to totally determine if the Taliban and other groups in Pakistan are trying to encourage sectarian chaos by these attacks or if this is simply ethnic hatred and cleansing but in the story below from DAWN, you will see how a busload of people was stopped by 30 to 35 insurgents and only the Punjabi speaking were killed - executed in cold blood. Like cattle.
Well, we are seeing the same ethnic cleansing in Pakistan. Today. This time it is the Punjabi speaking people of Pakistan - Punjab is an area along the India/Pakistan border in which the people have a distinctive language and it is obviously a target for the insurgents in Pakistan.
It's hard for me to totally determine if the Taliban and other groups in Pakistan are trying to encourage sectarian chaos by these attacks or if this is simply ethnic hatred and cleansing but in the story below from DAWN, you will see how a busload of people was stopped by 30 to 35 insurgents and only the Punjabi speaking were killed - executed in cold blood. Like cattle.
Gunmen attack bus, kill 10 near Quetta
QUETTA: Gunmen attacked a passenger bus and shot dead at least 10 people in insurgency-hit southwest Pakistan, officials said on Saturday.
The incident took place in Aab-e-Gum area, 75 kilometres southeast of Quetta, the capital of oil and gas rich Balochistan province, on Friday night.
“A group of 30-35 gunmen stopped the bus in Aab-e-Gum area, off-loaded passengers at gunpoint and shot dead 10 of them,” top provincial home department official Akbar Hussain Durrani told AFP.
He said the bus was travelling to Quetta from the eastern city of Lahore and all those killed in the attack were Punjabi-speaking people.
A senior local official in Aab-e-Gum area, Ismail Kurd, also confirmed the incident and casualties.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. – AFP
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Whats really sad is that we here in the US sold Saddam the nerve gas that he used on the Kurds - at the time (1988) there was little said about the attacks in the US, as long as Saddam also used it to kill Iranians. Ah, the 1980s.
Punjabis need to take their country back.
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