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| This week's Karachi slaughter... |
| 2002-09-25 |
| Gunmen stormed the offices of a Christian welfare organization in Karachi today, tying seven office workers to their chairs before shooting each in the head at close range. At one other person was critically injured. The shootings took place in the third–floor offices of the Institute for Peace and Justice, or Idara–e–Amn–o–Insaf, a Pakistani Christian charity. Victims were tied with their hands behind their backs and their mouths taped before being shot point–blank in the head, according to Karachi Police Chief Kamal Shah. All seven of the dead were Pakistani Christians. It was not clear who was behind the attack. Yeah. Was it Sipah i-Sahaba, or Lashkar e-Jhangvi? They're the usual suspects... Mr Shah said police are questioning an office assistant who was tied up and beaten by the attackers, but not shot. Police want to know how the gunmen got into the office, which had an electronic door that could only be opened from the inside, he said. The office assistant has told police there were two gunmen involved in the shooting, he said. Since he wasn't executed like the others, they might have been relatives... The Christian group has been working for 30 years with poor municipal and textile workers to press for basic worker rights, and organizing programs with local human rights groups. That's certainly grounds for killing them like dogs, by any Islamic standard... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Sipah-e-Sahaba or Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, there's a difference? It seems the Lashkar is a deathsquad set up by Sipah so that they could become a 'legitimate' political party and could deny the wholesale massacres of Shia heretics. This seems likely since when the top Lashkar guys have been killed they are wrapped in the Sipah flag, and when one of them got arrested the leader of the Sipah did everything possible to get them released. Although it's possible that they have 'gone rogue' at some point in the last few years |
| Posted by: Paul 2002-09-25 19:32:36 |