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| Russians say hospitals are legitimate targets |
| 2016-10-06 |
| Running the old Soviet military playbook step by step AMSTERDAM – The Russian Ambassador to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, confirmed that Syrian and Russian government airstrikes target hospitals. Activists reported on Wednesday that while Russia and Assad claim to target extremists, “airstrikes in Aleppo destroy homes, hospitals and schools.” However, the Russian ambassador said that the targeting is justified since Syrian rebels are using the hospitals and civilians as human shields. “Most hospitals are unmarked rebels’ field facilities. Keeping civilians as a human shield is a well-known terrorist tactic,” Ambassador Yakovenko said. Syrian and Russian jets resumed their bombing of rebel-held areas, backing Shia militias and the Syrian army to besiege eastern Aleppo. The intensification of violence in Aleppo followed the breakdown of a Russian-US ceasefire deal last month. “Children are being killed and maimed. Airstrikes are hitting the few remaining hospitals. The use of bunker-busting bombs means children cannot even safely attend schools that are underground,” Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) said in a press release. “We call on Syria and Russia, as well the international community, to show they abide by their human rights obligations set out in those treaties and find a way to end this raging conflict now,” Mezmur said. According to a Reuters report, France is launching a new initiative to resume the ceasefire to prevent the massacring of civilians, and to allow aid into Aleppo. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #9 It's their way, Grins, they like to win. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-06 16:23 |
| #8 Just imagine the uproar if Israel had done the same thing to Hamas Hospitals. And Israel would have sent messages in advance to the hospital to evacuate all non-combatants. And phone calls to all they could identify. Even when after warnings and phone calls and Hamas prevented non-combatants from leaving a building, bombing it was called an Israeli war crime. Do the Russians have evidence that Aleppo hospitals are used as rebel headquarters? Does that justify attacking them without warming? Or is that genocide? |
| Posted by: Grins Snese4215 2016-10-06 15:23 |
| #7 On Saipan American Destroyers churned thru Japanese intestines from floating civilian corpses Hemingway, O Hack of the Purple Prose, having sailed through a sea of floating corpses myself, one does not "churn through intestines". I'll defer to you when it comes to wrecking Jeeps, though. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-10-06 11:52 |
| #6 Did you usual 'human rights' mouths open up and denounce the Russkies like they did the Americans in Afghanistan? Crickets? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-06 09:32 |
| #5 On Peleilu inside the ridge of the Umurbrogol Pocket the caves went from one side of the ridge to the other, a very large underground area, largely split between a Hospital aid station for the wounded and the Jap command facilities., an area a quarter of a mile wide and another three quarters of mile long. Packed with Japanese wounded and fighting soldiers in the cave structures defending the island from an American assault which lasted twelve weeks...America lost over 6,000 dead leading up to the Final flame thrower attack against the Hospital and command center inside the Ridge. On Saipan American Destroyers churned thru Japanese intestines from floating civilian corpses , suicides jumping from the cliffs into the sea. America did what was NECESSARY to win the war. That IS what wars IS. Somebody wins and somebody loses. That's why they call it War. No "playbook" involved. Just who wins and who loses. Sometimes you shoot their wounded and don't take prisoners. Hospitals are targets.... sometimes. So is your Mother....sometimes. The Russians are not Obama and Nancy Pelosi. America is Obama and Nancy Pelosi. The Russians ARE going to take Aleppo. |
| Posted by: Glase Bluetooth5522 2016-10-06 07:09 |
| #4 Any thoughts on this one? Let Allan sort them out. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-06 03:21 |
| #3 Some are forced into this service, some are not. If it is long term safe haven for Al-Shatan worshipers, it is usually by force - who uses the excuse to use Medical equipment from other hospitals which were ravaged for the only purpose of keeping useless jihadi scrotums alive. Consider the staff was not complicit and rather hostage. I run over this every time... Any thoughts on this one? |
| Posted by: newc 2016-10-06 02:46 |
| #2 Funny how the UN didn't mention that. "We would prefer not to clutter the discussion with facts that might otherwise confuse the narrative." |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-10-06 01:05 |
| #1 Maybe the rebels shouldn't hide behind women and children and maybe they should stop using hospitals as operations centers? Funny how the UN didn't mention that. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2016-10-06 00:36 |