violence begets violence in ripples that spread outward, senseless killing of innocent bystanders is criminal. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
violence begets violence in ripples that spread outward, senseless killing of innocent bystanders is criminal. / naturalflow
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| 説明 | The Russian subway bombings bring up another example.Black widows are women whose husbands were killed in mass indiscriminate attacks on entire villages as the Russians would retaliate to any attacks with widespread violence against any nearby target, kiiled many harmless people.This caused a lot more anger and created yet again a new generation of angry people that can be tapped for terrorist attacks.and in Afghanistan:According to the UN, at least 98 civilians were killed in these incidents in 2009. In terms of creating enemies, you couldn’t do it better than attacking people in their homes at night, Gaston says. “It’s hard to do worse than breaking into some one’s house at night, taking actions that are viewed as violating the women of the household, and hauling family members to unknown detention sites for weeks to months.”While attacking homes at night, rather than daytime, may add an element of surprise and reduce the risk to pro-government forces, it dramatically increases the chances of indiscriminate use of force against innocent women, children, and men in the house.Something similar seems to have happened in the latest botched raid in Gardez. Here’s a London Times account of the raid and the allegations of cover-up first written by the newspaper. Here’s the New York Times story.The conclusion, broadly is, that you tend to lose more than you gain from these raids, the Open Society report says. Just because Afghan forces are involved in the raid or even sometimes leading the operation, it does not absolve the foreign forces. In the eyes of the Afghans whose homes have been violated, it is the foreign forces who are ultimately responsible, the report said. Secondly, often, these raids are based on flawed intelligence as it happened in Gardez when coalition forces went in believing an insurgent was hiding there. As it turned out, there wasn’t any hostile activity going on; just a large family celebrating the Western equivalent of a baby shower.It’s the sort of thing that becomes branded onto people’s memories, leaving an irremovable scar. What is happening in Afghanistan cam be compared to the people’s narrative in the Himalayan region of Kashmir. Kashmiris still talk of Indian army crackdowns on villages when males above the age of 15 were taken away in raids often conducted just before dawn. They are still trying to win hearts and minds there, more than 20 years into the conflict. |
| 撮影日 | 2010-04-06 13:56:40 |
| 撮影者 | naturalflow |
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