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500 Women And Children Buried Alive In Iraq.
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Just heard this on Sky News but not confirmed. Please tell me this isn't be true.
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Madmen are crucifying other men, taking girls as slaves, and burying women and children alive - and here we have people squabbling over the 'left' and 'right' of politics. Very sad.
22:03 Sun 10th Aug 2014
The most terrible atrocities are taking place there. I hate to say it but when you remove a dictator who keeps them all in check this is what happens and I don`t know what we can do about it. I presume the UK and US will be heavily involved again with the resultant rists of retaliation for the rest of us
There was one of Jeremy Bowen's reports where it finally gelled for me about the Sunni/Shi'a thing but that memory got overwritten, so to speak.
Whichever group Saddam belonged to, they were smaller, numerically but the 'ruling class' - Iraqi equivalent of The Normans. We went in, dismantled their army, police and security services, train up replacements, move out, leaving everyone with a grudge to settle to get on with killing each other.
Why do the Sauds never lift a finger? Not allowed to kill fellow Muslims, presumably? Do errors of omission, or inaction, count?
Whichever group Saddam belonged to, they were smaller, numerically but the 'ruling class' - Iraqi equivalent of The Normans. We went in, dismantled their army, police and security services, train up replacements, move out, leaving everyone with a grudge to settle to get on with killing each other.
Why do the Sauds never lift a finger? Not allowed to kill fellow Muslims, presumably? Do errors of omission, or inaction, count?
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@emmie,
What made the Rwanda genocide so easy to perpetrate was the way they all ran to the only place of safety they knew: the community church. Even if they'd had access to Facebook or twitter, you don't get many minutes' notice of the building being attacked to request outside help. The west only got the news by word of mouth, by which time it was all too late.
Similar massacres centred on churches happened in WWII, Germans taking over Polish and Russian villages and Russians taking them off German colonists a few years later.
"No-one will shed blood under God's roof." Yeah, right.
What made the Rwanda genocide so easy to perpetrate was the way they all ran to the only place of safety they knew: the community church. Even if they'd had access to Facebook or twitter, you don't get many minutes' notice of the building being attacked to request outside help. The west only got the news by word of mouth, by which time it was all too late.
Similar massacres centred on churches happened in WWII, Germans taking over Polish and Russian villages and Russians taking them off German colonists a few years later.
"No-one will shed blood under God's roof." Yeah, right.
@emmie
Okay: churches, plural, then.
From your link: //Organised gangs of government soldiers and militias hacked their way through the Tutsi population with machetes, or blew them up in churches where they had taken refuge.//
I'm not attempting to do R&S-style anti-church point-scoring here, just stating what happened (or my perception of what happened, skewed as it may be by (Beeb) news footage).
Okay: churches, plural, then.
From your link: //Organised gangs of government soldiers and militias hacked their way through the Tutsi population with machetes, or blew them up in churches where they had taken refuge.//
I'm not attempting to do R&S-style anti-church point-scoring here, just stating what happened (or my perception of what happened, skewed as it may be by (Beeb) news footage).
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