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War crimes of Pak army – Are Obama and Hillary ready to take responsibility of massacre?
By: Earthman, International Professor
It is 4th letter in the series of highlighting war crimes of Pakistan army on the basis of ethnic and religious hatred. It is gigantic massacre of this century and for more severe then Rwanda, Serbia, Iraq and Kashmir. According to independent reports more than 4 million peoples have been forced to leave their homes, whereas government of Pakistan is reluctant to acknowledge them as refugee, all the provinces have shut their doors and those are not allowed to travel within a country. Previous three reports are available on the given links below.
Restrictions on registrations and lame excuses to provide relief goods to individuals is based on greediness and corruption, to set aside and utilize donated amounts for luxurious life style of politicians and generals. Government servants are asking for bribe for issuing national identity cards which has been made obligation. No one is ready to realize that army played a drama and invaded on towns and villages without any pre-notice, planning or arrangements for refugees. Everybody knows that round one million Pakistani are residing as refugees since last year when Pak army invaded on Bajore and adjacent areas.
Indiscriminate killings, use of extra ordinary force against civilians with the help of artillery, tanks, gunship helicopters and fighter jets. Almost 200,000 to 250,000 army, paramilitary and police is busy in massacre of innocent peoples. It was a drama directed by Zardari while he was on tour of USA for making fool to Obama administration and sucking dollars. He successfully made fool to everyone and announcements of American administration to keep billions of dollars on the palm of the international criminal is a failure of Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Events in previous reports were represented in chronological order, after publishing of that report a lull was noticed in the information, and possibly due to army pressure no incidence of killing of civilians was reported. As independent reporters are not allowed and locals have been thrown out. Reports including current report have been designed for the attention and records of UN Human Rights and International Court of Justice, as such for the information of leading journalists, media groups, politicians and ambassadors.
It is significant to point out that Human Rights commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is not independent body, and composed of fanatics who have their own interests based on religion and ethnicity. It is strong perceptions that some of its office bearers are on the pay role of ISI, Army and overseas agencies as well.
Swat Massacre army in chronological order: May 30-Jun 10, 2009
30-05-09: five-member Defence and Security Analysis team visited Buner for making a feasibility of establishing relief camps. Our Peshawar Bureau adds: Some villagers from Shamozai area, who managed to call reporters, claimed that the area was bombarded by jets in the afternoon and after sunset shelled by artillery guns. They said that 10 bodies were retrieved from the debris but they could not continue the rescue work due to dark and may resume it today (Saturday). The villagers claimed the dead included children. They said that the main target of the forces aerial attacks was schools where the militants could be hiding. They protested over the aerial blitz, arguing that mostly women, old men and some young men had stayed back to look after their homes and belongings and harvest their wheat crop. http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22431
30-05-09: BISHAM: A man was killed in firing by security forces and two others, including a minor, were injured in a roadside blast separately in the district on Friday. Gul Mukhtiar was killed in firing allegedly by security forces. It was learnt that the militants were still carrying out their activities in Yakh Tangi Top in Bisham. http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22444
30-05-09: PESHAWAR: The internally displaced persons belonging to Bajaur and Mohmand Agencies on Friday set up a protest camp against what they called ‘discriminatory behaviour’ of the government. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=180363
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June 02, 2009: ISLAMABAD: Arshad Khan, 29, was shot dead by troops on May 11 when he was at his Kanju residence in Mingora. Arshad was in his house with his aunt and two servants when the soldiers entered and shot him dead, said Mujeeb-ur-Rehman. A major of the Pakistan Army told one of my uncles, who had gone to collect Arshads body, that he had committed a mistake by shooting at Arshad Khan. He explained that Arshad was a clean-shaven young man with no resemblance with the Taliban and he was not carrying any arms when the soldiers gunned him down.
Syed Rehman, Arshad Khans uncle who had gone to collect the body, told The News that the soldiers opened fire on them three times when they went to collect the body. He said then they were asked to hold a white flag. One major personally met me and confessed that he had committed a mistake. Hearing this, I touched the roof, saying is it a mistake to kill a clean-shaven man at his house knowing that he is unarmed, said Syed Rehman. I was first told that Arshad was shot dead because he was crawling. But when I told them that he was crawling because he had sustained injuries to his chest and abdomen, no one had anything to say. |
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22485
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June 05, 2009: MINGORA: Soldiers stood guard along its narrow roads, but there was no sign of civilian life in the Swat valley’s main city, nor signs of the Taliban. Across the river stood another militant stronghold, reminding the Army its work was not done.
Maj-Gen Ijaz Awan said many of the weapons found with the militants were Russian made, while others had no markings but appeared to be Chinese made. |
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=181403
Jun 06, 2009: PESHAWAR: Four farmers harvesting wheat crop in fields were reportedly killed when hit by mortar shells in Tawa area in Puran Tehsil of the Shangla district. The farmers, harvesting wheat crop in Tawa, were hit by shells. Some reports from the Martoba area Puran suggested that three more civilians were killed and two others injured when mortar shells struck them. Member NA from Shangla, Amir Muqam, asked security forces to take care of the civilians during their operation. AFP/AP add: hundreds of displaced people were stopped from returning to their homes in Swat Valley. An Associated Press reporter on Friday saw hundreds of Swat residents at Got Koto, an area just outside the valley. The Swatis had heard reports the government would lift curfew in Mingora to let them return home. But security forces on a main road stopped them, saying they could not allow civilians back in just yet. “I want nothing from the government. I only want that we should be allowed to go back to our Mingora city,” said Dilawar Khan, 40, as his four children and two wives stood by him under the shade of a tree. Khan and his family had been staying at a relief camp in Mardan. “In certain areas of Swat and Dir Lower, there’s something like 20 people leaving for every one person who’s returning,” he told reporters in a telephonic conference in Geneva from Islamabad. http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22566
Jun 06, 2009: PESHAWAR/WANA/TANK: There were also reports that continuous closure of the Tank-Wana road had irritated the Ahmadzai Wazirs and forced them to resort to violence. Presently, the Ahmadzai Wazirs have to travel to the distant Zhob district in Balochistan via dirt road for reaching Dera Ismail Khan and rest of the areas that consumes their time and money. http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22567
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June 04, 2009: Is this the first case of extra-judicial killing?
ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a straightforward case of extra-judicial killings in the middle of the Swat military operation, two displaced persons from Buner, a father and a son, who were arrested from Mardan and kept in police custody there, were found dead, blindfolded and hands tied on May 30 in Buner.
Surprisingly, the same day, Director General ISPR Maj General Athar Abbas announced to the media their names amongst those top militant commanders who he claimed had been killed in the military operation in Buner. This raised the unanswered fundamental question as to who were responsible for the killings and how those in the police custody were brought back to Buner and killed. It also appeared to be the first case in which bodies of the top commanders killed in action were found on a road in Buner, blindfolded with hands tied. Some people, including an ANP MPA and relatives of those killed, and confirmed that the poor father and the son were in police custody in Mardan. They were taken to the Rustom police station from where they were shifted to the Saddar police station, Mardan. Initially, the family did not have any clue about the whereabouts of the duo but later when they came to know about their presence in the Saddar police station, Salahuddin, his brother Sirajuddin, nephew Masood and other local residents like Muhammad Ayaz, Bakhtai Rehman, Mubarik Zaib went there and met the two. Those put under illegal custody without any FIR. Minhajuddin said that on May 30, they received a phone call from a relative, who informed them that some television channels, while quoting the DG ISPR, were reporting the killing of Misbahuddin and Abu Saeed. On this, he said, he immediately contacted their MPA from Buner Said Rahim Khan, who belongs to the Awami National Party.
The DG ISPR, according to newspapers of May 31, was quoted to have informed the media that during the last 24 hours, 25 militants were killed, including key militant commanders Abu Saeed, Misbahuddin and Sultan Khan.
According to Minhajuddin, the bodies of his brother and young nephew were buried by the locals after the lifting of curfew while none of the close relatives was there. He demanded an inquiry into these killings. FC chief says no need to probe ‘extrajudicial killing’ charge in Buner http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22527
June 06, 2009: ISLAMABAD:
A new dimension has been added to the mystery of the reported case of “extrajudicial killing” of a man and his son in Buner, when the head of the Frontier Corps, Maj-Gen Tariq Khan, claimed on Friday the two were top militants and were killed in broad daylight following a raid he personally approved. He, however, said there was no need to hold an inquiry into the matter, although the fundamental question as to how those reported to be in the police custody in Mardan were killed in Buner remains unanswered.
When told that besides the close relatives of the two victims, Maulana Misbahuddin Malikpuri and his young son Abu Saeed, a sitting MPA of the Awami National Party had also confirmed to The News that they were in police custody, the general said he had no knowledge of it but was sure of what had been told by his men. |
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=181445
Jun 06, 2009: Swat relief under-prepared, under-funded, overwhelmed
LAHORE: Fikret Akcura, the United Nations’ senior official in Pakistan, concedes that there is still no clear plan to help most of those who have fled fighting in the Swat valley. He defends the camps for the displaced, but nearly 80 percent of the uprooted people have sought refuge elsewhere. The difficulties are only just beginning. Public support for the operation could dissipate fast if the displaced are not cared for. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\06\06\story_6-6-2009_pg7_16
June 08, 2009: Mortar shells kill five civilians in Dir Upper: PESHAWAR: Mortar shells hit a group of people fleeing the fighting in Swat Valley in Gulibagh area of neighbouring Upper Dir district, killing five civilians, including two women and a child, locals said. As the military operation Rah-e-Rast continues in Swat Valley, people from different localities continue to stream out to safer places. Due to the military action in Kabal and other areas, the trapped people, desperate to move out from the troubled areas, take mountainous paths due to the curfew. On Sunday, a group of civilians was going from Swat to Upper Dir through mountains when mortar shells hit them in the Gulibagh area of Karo Darra in Upper Dir district, killing five of them. http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22623
Jun 08, 2009: Two killed for violating curfew: TAKHTBHAI: Security forces on Sunday shot dead two persons and injured another for violating curfew in Shergarh area of Takhtbai, a Tehsil of Mardan, bordering Malakand Agency.Sources said Mohammad Ilyas and Aizaz Khan died while Umer Gul sustained injuries on Shergarh-Badraga Road when they came under security forces’ fire. Umer Gul was rushed to hospital in a critical condition. The forces also sprayed bullets on a vehicle for curfew violation. Later, the residents of the area condemned the killings and demanded of the government to immediately lift the curfew.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22623
Military helicopters dropped weapons to the Lashkar to encourage them to continue their fight against the Taliban militants.
Jun 09, 2009: PESHAWAR: Maj-Gen Athar Abbas told a private TV channel urges Pakistanis to rise up against militants. People of dozens of other villages in the adjoining areas joined the Lashkar and invaded the villages harbouring the militants, who did not leave the area after months of talks. The advancing people torched five more houses owned by the Taliban or their supporters. They had already destroyed 21 houses of the Taliban in the first two days of fighting.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22624
Jun 09, 2009: For obvious reasons, the government is taking no step to stop the fighting. Instead, it seems to be encouraging or could even be supporting the lashkar to go for the kill. This is the kind of battle that is fuelled by new blood-feuds and is never-ending until one side is vanquished and forced to accept the terms of surrender. Heavily-armed villages and clans hostile to each other cannot co-exist in peace, more so if they are supported and supplied by the government or militant groups such as Taliban. In the past also, the government has backed similar anti-Taliban lashkars in Swat, Buner, Bajaur, Orakzai, Darra Adamkhel and other places. Such a policy has generally caused lot of bloodshed and sowed the seeds of turmoil. The Taliban have ruthlessly retaliated by sending suicide bombers to attack jirgas of tribal elders and clerics hostile to them in Darra Adamkhel, Bajaur and Orakzai or causing harm to anyone in sight and terrorizing entire villages as was the case in Shalbandai in Buner, Hayagai Sharqi in Upper Dir and Mandaldag in Swat where the late anti-Taliban commander Pir Samiullah had dared to raise a lashkar against them. controversy regarding the recent incident in Sakhakot, a town in Malakand Agency, in which the army says the detained TNSM leaders Maulana Mohammad Alam and Amir Izzat Khan were killed along with a soldier in an attack by the militants, it nevertheless showed the vulnerability of the troops to such attacks on this critical route. By the way, the government would have to do a lot more to clear the doubts regarding the killing of the two TNSM leaders, who were in custody of the security forces and hadn't been charged for any crime. The uncertainty about the whereabouts of the TNSM head Maulana Sufi Mohammad also needs to be cleared because the death and detention of Islamic leaders waging peaceful struggle for Shariah could complicate matters and push their followers to join forces with the Taliban. http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=181976
Jun 10, 2009: BANNU: Some of the tribesmen had already left their homes and fled to the distant Shawal valley in North Waziristan due to the military operation. The villagers feared civilian casualties in the artillery shelling as they complained security forces were targeting villages where many people were still living.
They complained the government had sealed all roads and did not allow the fleeing families to move to safer places in Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts. http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22651
Jun 10, 2009: PESHAWAR: About 50 families of Ahmadzai Wazir tribe in the border villages of South Waziristan Agency left the area for the neighbouring Afghan province of Paktika to escape a possible military operation against the militants. Tribal elder Malik Mohammad Ayub Wazir led the Ahmadzai Wazir families to Afghanistan. The fleeing tribal villagers received by Afghan officials across the border in Birmal area of the Paktika province, each family was paid $1,000 by the Afghan government with some additional food package. Were promised free accommodation and food during their stay in Afghanistan. http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22656
Jun 10, 2009: BISHAM: Security forces shot dead two persons for violating curfew in Alpuri area on Tuesday. Sources said that the security forces warned the suspects to stop but they continued to move towards the checkpost, prompting the soldiers to open fire on them. http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22665
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More war crimes of army generals will be submitted as soon those will be available. After Jun 10, 2009 situation has gone for worst, which require separate report. However after target killings, air raids on mosques and schools, the invasion of army has taken new dimensions, to a complete civil war. So now collectively all forms of crimes including massacre, genocide, target killings, kidnapping and other violations of human rights has made it worst disaster in human history. Preliminary list of war crimes against humanity of this century has already been included in following reports.
Global human rights, anti-war, anti-fascism, and anti-dictatorship groups may record such events for future reference. It is next Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda or Serbia. Zardari and Kiyani mafia is fascists of this century, who are criminals and their greediness to collect dollars from Western countries is speaking loudly.
For further reading and co-relation to above report:
Swat Massacre by Pak Army is based on ethnic and religious hatred. Part (1)
http://www.makepakistanbetter.com/Why_how_what_forum.asp?GroupID=5&ArticleID=6351
Swat Massacre by Pak Army is based on ethnic and religious hatred. Part (2)
http://www.makepakistanbetter.com/Why_how_what_forum.asp?GroupID=5&ArticleID=6363
http://www.chowk.com/ilogs/72217/47752
We lifted our burqas and held up the Qur'an to beg for mercy but..
http://www.makepakistanbetter.com/Why_how_what_forum.asp?GroupID=9&ArticleID=6200
Laser Bombs killed 300 villagers - UNO must track genocide
http://www.makepakistanbetter.com/Why_how_what_forum.asp?GroupID=5&ArticleID=6280
Who is behind the murder of wife of Hayat ullal Khan.
http://www.attocknews.com/content/view/468/168/
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