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Monday, September 12, 2011

NATO DOES IT AGAIN

To add to the recent reports of NATO-backed rebels in Libya committing atrocities such as torture, beheadings, summary executions and rape, it now looks like our glorious allies are doing the same in Afghanistan.

US-backed Afghan militias are committing murder, rape, torture and extortion, risking increasing support for the insurgent groups they were designed to fight against, a prominent human rights group has said.

Militias including the Afghan Local Police (ALP) – seen as a key plank in Nato's troop reduction plans – suffer from poor oversight and no accountability, and are prone to act with impunity, Human Rights Watch said.

...But Human Rights Watch's 102-page report, Just Don't Call it a Militia, details how the US-funded "high-risk" and "quick-fix" solution has been plagued by poor design, a lack of oversight and insufficient vetting of the 7,000 recruits, some of whom are criminals or insurgents.

...An elder told Human Rights Watch: "Other elders and I went to the ALP base to collect [one of the boys]. He had been beaten and nails had been hammered into his feet."

The most serious cases of abuse involve the killing and gang rape of child suspects, beatings, land grabs and the forcible collection of ushr, an informal tax.

[source : US-backed Afghan militias accused of human rights abuses, The Guardian, 12/09/2011]

Just what are we creating on our military adventures?

We carpet bomb Libyan civilians to install al Qaeda who then torture and execute and rape black Libyans.

Fill in the blanks.

We carpet bomb ....... civilians to install ....... who then torture and execute and rape ........

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