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Syrian civilians must be protected: Human Rights Watch
It's a counterintuitive world we live in, Brethren and Sistern.[Al Ahram] Anticipating a Western-led military strike on Syria's regime, Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... warned Wednesday that any such intervention must include every possible effort to protect the civil war torn nation's civilians. Three or four hundred people exterminated like cockroaches, and they tell us to be careful not to hurt anybody? The US-based rights group stressed it was not taking up a position on possible military action, which Washington and other Western powers have hinted was due after alleged poison gas attacks last week near Damascus. Thank them most to death. They have to be careful not to criticize Champ while at the same time criticizing the rest of us... But "if there is a military intervention, all warring parties must strictly adhere to the laws of war," which forbid deliberate attacks against civilians and the use of weapons such as cluster munitions or antipersonnel landmines, the group said. If all parties had adhered to the laws of war no civilians woulda been gassed. "Military action carried out in the name of upholding a basic humanitarian norm -- you don't gas children in their sleep -- will be judged by its effect in protecting all Syrian civilians from further unlawful attacks, whether chemical or conventional," HRW executive director Kenneth Roth said in a statement. Had a little difficulty speaking around the unmelted butter in his mouth, I'll betcha. The group said all parties involved, including  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad's Light of the Alawites... forces and the rebels fighting to oust them, should adhere to laws of war. Doh. Any forces involved in military action against Syria should also consider "the additional humanitarian needs" created by such attacks, noted the group, which also urged provision of aid even if Damascus objected. Posted by: Fred 2013-08-29 |
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