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2011-09-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

In Russia, Juppe Accuses Syria of 'Crimes against Humanity'

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Posted by Fred 2011-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Russia has a very different idea of what "human rights" and "humanitarianism" means. It is far more Asiatic than western.

A superb example of Russian "humanitarianism" is from their adventure in Afghanistan. They had used an old US Vietnam-era trick(*) of rounding up village women and children and putting them into camps where they would not be able to support their militant men.

However, Afghan women and children need a LOT of guards, as they are mischievous, and Russia did not want to take too many combat soldiers off the line for guard duty.

So their solution was to suggest digging a slit trench, lining it with plastic, then putting very weakened mustard agent in it. Then force the women and children to walk its length. This would cause all the skin on their feet to blister off, so they would have to walk on their hands and knees for some months while their feet healed.

"The only other alternative," suggested the Russians, "would be to kill them. Thus incapacitating them temporarily would be the "humanitarian" thing to do."

Needless to say, just about everyone else in the world disagreed with the Russians, who discarded the idea, mumbling that the rest of the world was being "unrealistic".

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-08 10:30|| 2011-09-08 10:30|| Front Page Top

#2 (*) First innovated during the US Indian Wars.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-08 10:30|| 2011-09-08 10:30|| Front Page Top

#3 (**) Elevated to a science by the British during the second Boar War where farms were torched and 25,000 women and children perrished. First usage of the term "concentration camp."

Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-08 11:05|| 2011-09-08 11:05|| Front Page Top

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