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Africa North
Human rights Watch demands halt to live ammo use in Egypt
2013-08-20
[Al Ahram] Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
 called on the Egyptian government Monday to stop using live ammunition against protesters, as it challenged the official corpse count from day one of the ongoing crisis.
Does HRW demand that the Brüderbünd stop using live ammo on the police?

The Egyptian police may not be Peelers, but they have to defend themselves. If they can't they end up like those two dozen schlubbs in the Sinai, dragged out of a bus and executed.
In a statement, the New York-based human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
 group said the large-scale use of live ammunition was not only unjustified, but also a failure to abide by international policing standards.

With the corpse count mounting every day, Egypt's military rulers should "urgently reverse" police instructions to use live ammunition to protect state buildings, it said.

Such lethal force should be used "only when strictly necessary to protect life," it added.
Posted by:Fred

#1  OK, We'll stop AFTER they do.
That suit you? of not Fuk off.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-08-20 00:43  

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