This Board and the world at large show great concern and weeping for the victims of Israeli racism and retaliation as well they should. What about these other examples:
Army’s Hand Suspected in Kyrgyzstan (link)
Army’s Hand Suspected in Kyrgyzstan (link)
June 16, 2010
Army’s Hand Suspected in Kyrgyzstan
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
OSH, Kyrgyzstan — As the armored personnel carrier rumbled down the street, men in Kyrgyz military uniforms clinging to its sides, residents of an ethnic Uzbek neighborhood here felt a surge of relief. The peacekeepers, it seemed, had finally arrived.
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Part 2 of Article on Khyrgz atrocities:
But then the men in uniforms jumped down and began firing automatic weapons into homes while shouting anti-Uzbek slurs, more than a dozen residents of the neighborhood, Shai-Tubeh, said in interviews on Wednesday. They spoke of the terrifying moments last week when they realized that they were under attack from what appeared to be their own nation’s military. They said the assailants killed several people, wounded many others and set fire to buildings.
"We believed that they had come to protect us," said Avaz Abdukadyrov, 48. "But instead, they came to kill us."
Mr. Abdukadyrov and others said one memory of the events last Saturday haunted them: as they fled and their homes burned, the men in uniforms laughed and danced in the street.
In the wake of ethnic riots that broke out last Thursday night and killed hundreds over the weekend here and throughout southern Kyrgyzstan, questions arose about whether the violence was spontaneous — and then increased in the absence of strong local authority — or the work of more organized forces, possibly doing the bidding of Kyrgyzstan’s deposed president, Kurmanbek S. Bakiyev.
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Also, when is someone going to help, for humanitarian reasons those truly desperate people in the Congo (link)? Excerpts below:
Fleeing Rebels Kill Hundreds of Congolese
March 27, 2010
Fleeing Rebels Kill Hundreds of Congolese
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
TAPILI, Congo - Depleted by an American-backed offensive and seemingly desperate for new conscripts, the Lord's Resistance Army, one of the most infamous armed groups in Africa, has killed hundreds of villagers in this remote corner of Congo and kidnapped hundreds more, marching them off in a vast human chain, witnesses say.
The massacre and abductions are a major setback to the effort to stamp out the remnants of the group, a primarily Ugandan rebel force that fielded thousands of soldiers in the 1980s and '90s. But in recent years it has degenerated into a band of several hundred predators living deep in the bush in Congo, Sudan and the Central African Republic with child brides and military-grade weaponry.
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They also kidnapped nurses from hospitals, witnesses said, and stripped blood-splattered clothes off corpses for themselves, a sign they are increasingly desperate.
Human Rights Watch, which sent a team to investigate the killings in February, said the L.R.A. killed at least 320 people in this area, calling the massacre one of the worst in the group's 23-year, atrocity-filled history.
Witnesses said that the number of dead could be several hundred more, and that most victims had been taken from their villages, tied at the waist and forced into the jungle, often with enormous loads of looted food balanced on their heads. Along the way, fighters randomly selected captives to kill, usually by an ax blow to the back of the head.
"They only scream once," said Jean-Claude Singbatile, a high school student who said that he spent 14 days in captivity and witnessed dozens of killings.
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What about someone taking up the cudgels for these victims?
Tell me, oh tell me, where is the weeping for these people? Where is the U.N.? Where is Rachel Corrie? I guess even the U.N. has limits of the matters for which its heart bleeds.