7 Rabi' II 1442 A.H. - November 22 2020 Issue # 47, Newsletter #1890
Special Report
Genocide of Indian Muslims supervised by Indian Government.
For Immediate Release
Indian American Muslim Council
November 17, 2020
Global experts researching genocidal violence raised an
alarm that the international community needed to wake up to
the impending genocide of India's 200 Million Muslims under
the watch of current Indian government. The panel discussion
on "Ten Stages of Genocide and India's Muslims," expressed
an urgent need to not only indict and sanction the Indian
government, but to also expose it in the international
community to prevent crimes against humanity. The discussion
was organized by the Indian American Muslim Council.
Dr. Gregory Stanton, the founder-president of Genocide
Watch, an organization that works to predict, prevent and
stop genocide and other forms of mass murder in the world
said, "Preparation for a genocide is definitely under way in
India." He explained, "The persecution of Muslims in Assam
and Kashmir is the stage just before genocide. The next
stage is extermination—that's what we call a
genocide."
Dr. Stanton who served in the U.S. State Department in the
1990s when he drafted the UN Security Council resolutions
that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,
said that the "systematic crimes against humanity is already
underway" in India. He mentioned the demolition of Babri
mosque and building of a temple as "important in the
development of cultural underpinnings for genocide."
Reacting to the fact that Delhi Police arrested hundreds of
Muslims in Delhi riot cases and accused them of violence
against themselves, Dr. Stanton termed it "denial," the last
stage in genocide. "Denial is the tenth stage of every
genocide. It starts actually at the beginning and goes all
the way through to the end and afterwards...That's what is
going on when they are charging Muslims with, would you
believe it!, killing themselves? I don't believe it! And I
don't think anybody should believe it," Dr. Stanton
said.
Teesta Setalvad, a well-known human rights defender in India
mentioned that violence against Muslims worsens their
socio-economic conditions and enables genocidal targeting.
"Lack of social and economic opportunities, constant fear
and insecurity among the Indian Muslims which is generated
through this abrasive exclusionary tactic of hate speech and
othering, is something that could possibly fit in to the
possible build-up of the genocidal situation," said Ms.
Setalvad who did years of pioneering work in exposing and
bringing to justice the perpetrators of anti-Muslim violence
in Gujarat.
Dr. Qasim Rasool Ilyas, a veteran Muslim political activist,
and the father of Dr. Umar Khalid, a globally recognized
human rights defender who has been falsely accused of
inciting violence and arrested just weeks ago, mentioned
that Muslims of Uttar Pradesh are among the worst affected
by the persecution and killings.
He summed it up, "The chief Minister Mr. Yogi Aditya Nath is
a known enemy of Muslims, is the main architect of
systematic targeting of the Muslim community through
encounter killing to illegal arrests and falsely framing.
Many Muslims were subjected to Mob lynching on the false
accusations of trading and consuming beef and in many cases
the victims succumbed to the torture while Police remained a
mute spectator.
Dr. Ilyas concluded his remarks with a question. "Can a
country which claims to be the largest democracy, force its
14% of the population into suppression and submission and
deny them their human and constitutional rights without
inviting the wrath of the international community?"
Among others who talked about India exhibiting various
stages of genocide include Ritumbra Manuvie, the Executive
Director of The London Story, a nonprofit foundation that
works on hate speech and hate crimes. As a Commonwealth
Scholar at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Manuvie
conducted research on the construction of citizenship in
Assam, the Indian state where Mr. Modi's government has
controversially designated two million residents as
foreigners following a dubious process called the National
Register for Citizens.
Rasheed Ahmed, Executive Director of Indian American Muslim
Council sharply criticized the silence of the United State
government about the February 2020 anti-Muslim pogrom in
Delhi not far from where President Trump held a press
conference. Tina Ramirez, a Human Rights expert, who has
travelled to India and knows all too well the deepening
challenges to religious freedoms in India effectively
moderated the panel discussion.
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Pakistan this week by Mantaqi
Pakistan Situation
Nov 21, 2020
By Mantaqi
Fighting on the Line of Control: The heavy fighting that
broke out on the Line of Control (LOC) between India and
Pakistan has abated. However, fighting and casualties are a
regular feature on the LOC since 2008. Since 9/11 Pakistan
had to tamp down on sending freedom fighters across the LOC
to fight the Indian occupation forces in Indian Occupied
Kashmir, as it came under intense US pressure, and did not
want a conflict with the US/Indian alliance. The following
links give an indication of the regular fighting on the LOC.
Be informed that these links are mostly Indian and therefore
propaganda. Pakistani English press is militantly secularist
and anti-Pakistan Army, so it seldom reports the sacrifices
of Pakistani soldiers on the frontiers:
The Political Alliance of Rogues and Knaves: The continuing
saga of the campaign by PDM to unseat the duly elected
government of Imran Khan transitioned from tragi-comedy to
utter farce. After losing the elections in 2018, PPP and
PMLN, the two parties who ruled Pakistan from 1989 till
1999, and again from 2008 till 2018, gutting Pakistan's
flourishing economy through large scale looting of the
treasury; declared that Imran Khan was not elected but
rather "selected", and thus they should again come to power
by forcing Imran Khan from the government through some kind
of "people power" overthrow of the Imran Khan's government.
They started their campaign with thunderous speeches by
previous Prime Minister Nawaz Shareef, who like all great
leaders of history, led from the front i.e., from his
multimillion apartment complex in Mayfair London. After
proclaiming himself a new Khomeini, he named and shamed
Pakistani army generals, which led to wild celebrations in
the Indian media. In Pakistan its effect was that of a wet
firecracker.
As a result of Nawaz Sharif's anti-army diatribe, his party
PMLN started hemorrhaging support in its stronghold of
central Punjab, which is also the prime recruiting ground of
the Pakistan army, and where everyone knows someone who gave
his life in defense of the Muslim motherland. To try and
remedy the situation Maryam Nawaz (Safdar) gave an interview
to the BBC. She declared that the "army is ours, and we want
to talk to it." However, the conditions are that the army
should not interfere in politics, and...... now please pay
attention to this and see if you can understand a genius
like Maryam Nawaz (Safdar). She wants the army out of
politics, and also demands that the army overthrow the
elected government of Imran Khan!!! (please don't laugh this
loud, you may disturb the neighbors).
Of the three leading the PDM, one is Maulana (?!) Fazalur
Rehman. The other two are Maryam Nawaz (Safdar), and Bilawal
Bhutto. All three are examples dynastic politics, where they
took over the party from their fathers. Maryam and Bilawal
were born with diamond studded golden spoons in their mouth,
where the gold and the diamonds came from the looted wealth
of the nation. Like privileged, entitled teenagers they
think they were born to rule, even through in real life they
probably don't have the skillset to run a fast-food
store.
Obama's Book: President Obama new book made waves in
Pakistan. Obama declares that after his operation in
Pakistan against Osama bin Ladin, he called the then
President Zardari of Pakistan. Obama was expecting outrage
from Zardari for the act of war that the US had carried out
against Pakistan. Instead he reports that Zardari was
overjoyed, and congratulated Obama. Zardari declared that
Osama bin Ladin was responsible for assassinating his wife
Benazir.
The state of mind regarding this was well illustrated when
in a speech before the Pakistani parliament, Imran Khan
declared that the US had "martyred" Osama bin Ladin (in Urdu
"shaheed kar diya"). There was outrage in the secularist
media, and Imran Khan's use of the word "martyr" was
condemned by PMLN and PPP. See
BBC.com/news/world-asia-53190199
.
May Allah save
Pakistan from such moral and intellectual pygmies.
It needs to be remembered that Imran Khan was vehemently
against the US terror war, had called for the shooting down
of drones who were ravaging Pakistani tribal areas, and had
tried to do a sit-in on the road through which the US
supplies went to Afghanistan. For this he was called
"Taliban Khan" by the secularist media.
Child Rapist Sentenced: A Pakistani man who was based in UK,
had run a network making and marketing child pornography.
This network even reached Italy, where it was exposed. The
British put this man in prison for four years and then
deported him to Pakistan. In Pakistan he had a good job,
being an accountant. However, he started kidnapping children
and making videos of sexual attacks on them. These videos he
uploaded to the dark web. His last victim was a boy whom he
forcibly dragged into his car and kept captive for a week.
He threatened the boy to keep him from telling. However, the
boy told his mother who told the police. The police were
able to trace the culprit, and found a lot of incriminating
material in his place of abode. The trial took a year, but
for once things went right. The monster was sentenced to
three death sentences, one life imprisonment and a heavy
fine. Hopefully his neck would soon suffer severe rope
burns.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for public hangings of
child molesters, or at least their chemical castration. He
is meeting heavy resistance from the secularists and the
"human rights" mafia.
War News
Syria
Russian Airstrikes.
Assad's artillery.
ISIS ambush. General killed.
Turkey has been clashing with communist Kurds all week
northwest of Aleppo and in northeastern Syria, north of
Raqqa.
In the Jabal al-Zawiya area mujahideen destroyed an Assad
artillery position which had been attacking them. Exchanges
of heavy fire between mujahideen groups and Assad's troops
continued all week.
ISIS ambushed Assad's Shia militia in the Myadeine desert,
in eastern Deir ez Zor. At least 14 troops were killed by
ISIS, including one of Assad's brigadier generals. An ISIS
advance in Sukhna desert and in eastern Hama has been
stopped by repeated Russian airstrikes.
In Deraa province, there is extreme tension and chaos. Every
day, some Assad official is shot or killed or injured. One
opposition leader who had joined Assad was shot and killed.
The entire population seems to be hostile to Assad but he
has the troops.
Israeli airstries have killed 14 Iranians, mostly militia,
around Damascus. For some reason, Iran never shoots back.
Israeli strikes are now happening once or twice every week.
[New Trend is wondering why Iran is fighting the Islamic
people and not fighting Israel?]
Refugee camps in northern Syria are flooded and in bad
condition owing to heavy rain. No one seems to care although
there are children there.
Iraq
Baghdad regime sources are saying that ISIS attacked their
troops in Saladin province. Five of the Shia troops were
killed and three of their associates were killed and eight
injured. The ISIS gunman escaped.
In another attack in Mosul, one regime soldier was killed
and four injured. Again, the attackers escaped.
France is uring USA not to withdraw from Iraq because the
ISIS threat is spreading. France says it will keep its
troops there.
In the Shia areas, Basra is reporting extreme poverty. In
Baghdad on Nov 21, there was a big rally against the lack of
electricty and other basics.
Egypt
Oil.com is reporting that the Israel-Egypt pipeline has been
disrupted by an ISIS attack. Egypt says it will be repaired
soon. In the Sinai there are numerous tribes giving cover
to the ISIS fighters according to observers.
Azerbaijan
After defeating troops supported by Armenia, Azerbaijan has
advanced into the land which Armenia has surrendered. The
Syrian fighters brought by Turkey played an important role
in the victory.
Pakistan
Two Pakistani troops were killed by the mujahideen in an
attack in north Waziristan. In another attack in the same
area, one Pakistani soldier was killed and four were
wounded. The attacker escaped. [Pakistan calls the soldiers
"martyrs". It is an incorrect word because martyrs are only
those who fight against the enemies of Islam.]
India is reporting repeated fighting with Pakistan on the
Line of Control. It seems to be fake news because Pakistan
is not reporting any such fighting.
News Within the U.S.
Fake Atonement and victimhood Mentality.
By Sis. Aisha (Jamaat al-Muslimeen))
New York City - I have been seeing commercials promoting
racial justice and equality everywhere: television ads,
billboards, Internet. These ads are very prevalent during
sports games. These ads on racial equality are
disingenuous.
Recently, the Houston Association for Realtors made a move
against using the term "master" bedroom and use "primary"
bedroom, instead. The reason for the change is that "master"
is a term associated with slavery in the Americas. Singer
John Legend saw right through that move and retorted that
all realtors need to make an effort to show black clients
all available properties they are financially qualified to
buy.
The New Trend Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Kaukab Siddique, gave a
khutba on atonement, a few months ago. Minister Farrakhan
spoke about America's need for atonement at the Million Man
March in October 1995. The late Dr. Khalid Muhammad said
that the root meaning of the word "reparations" means to
repair.
So, is there a serious effort to do away with America's
oppressive legacy and bring forth a society where people are
judged by the "content of their character" rather than the
color of their skin, as Dr. King would say?
No! As long as.......
There is a need to collect racial information about people
on government applications, even if it is now optional
NFL teams, claiming to be on the Black Lives Matter
bandwagon, keep Colin Kaepernick out of the NFL.
Black and white politicians still turn a blind-eye to
prosecutorial misconduct in grand jury proceedings against
accused cops,
These same corporations and politicians, who
"acknowledge" wrongs committed against African-Americans,
support Zionist land-grabs in Palestine.
These people are all hypocrites to the nth degree! So, no,
oppression will always be the way America operates because
the effort to end it is half-hearted and does not even
encompass other forms of oppression, such as sexual and age
discrimination. No injuries are being repaired here.
The problem with these racial equality commercials is that
they are directed at the liberal white supremacist, who
believes that his whiteness should be used to help the
inferior races. There are "efforts" by white corporations to
provide financial support to black-owned businesses.
It does not help that African-American educators such as,
Booker T. Washington, believed that the success of
historically-black colleges (HBCUs) depended on the
financial support of White Americans. There has always been
a segment of the black population who believed that their
survival depended on the kindness of white folks.
The fact is that it is not the oppressor's responsibility to
end his oppressive reign. It is the responsibility of the
oppressed with Allah's help (13:11).
This black victim-hood mentality is what is being promoted
in these commercials. These commercials promote the belief
that whites are the-haves and blacks are the have-not
without explaining why this issue continues to exist. This
really attacks the self-esteem of black children, who are
not seeing black people promoting black empowerment in these
commercials. Ironically, it is these same HBCUs that have
produced the black serial-entrepreneurs, business owners,
scientists, and inventors that we, rarely, see on
television.
(Sources: Yahoo.com).
Pakistan
Let us change Pakistan for the Good.
Mingora (Swat)- Nov 22: Jamaat-e-Islami Emir Senator Sirajul
Haq has asked the political parties to sit together for
electoral reforms if they are sincere to empower democracy
in the country.
"Free and fair polls could bring the country out of crisis.
To achieve the purpose there is need of powerful and
independent Election Commission," he said while addressing a
mass meeting at Minogra on Sunday.
Sirajul Haq said the PML-N and the PPP had declared the
Gilgit-Baltistan polls as rigged, which proved that blame
game would continue after every poll in future if it held
under the same circumstances. Therefore, he said, the
government and opposition parties should display seriousness
for electoral reforms before next elections.
However, he said, it seemed neither the PTI government nor
the so-called mainstream opposition parties were ready to
empower the masses and bring reforms in key sectors. In
fact, he added, the issues related to the masseswere not the
problems of the elite class, which came to power only to
serve their self-centered agenda. The ruling elite of the
three mainstream parties (the PTI, the PML-N and the PPP)
had only looted the country's resources and deprived the
masses from their basic rights during their turn in power,
he said. It was need of the hour that people took stand
against the status quo to free the country from these agents
of the imperialistic powers, he said.
The JI chief came down hard over the present government for
deceiving the masses in the name of "change". He said the
prime minister biggest crime was to deceive the people in
the name of Madina-like-state. He said the PTI government
completely destroyed the already fragile economy and it
failed to provide any relief to masses even after completion
of half of its tenure. He said the people were no more ready
to listen the white lies and tall claims of the present
rulers and they wanted to get rid of them. He said the PTI
government left with a limited time to fix the economy,
decrease prices of food and other daily routine commodities
and create job opportunities for the youth or it should
ready to be packed.
It was the third mass meeting of the JI in connection of its
ongoing campaign against the inflation, unemployment and
interest based economy. The JI had earlier held rallies in
Bajur and Buner. Thousands of people holding national and JI
flags attended the Mingora rally and shouted slogans against
the wrong policies of the PTI government. Senator Siraj
warned the government to fix the problems or get ready to go
home.
Invitation to Think
Here is the root of Censorship in the West.
Hunting Germar Rudolf: Essays on a Modern-Day Witch Hunt
by Germar Rudolf
Book Overview $19.95
What happens if a scientist touches the third rail of
western societies, that is to say, violates the only taboo
left standing? Does free speech prevail?
Read this book, and you will find out the answer is: NO
Germar Rudolf, born in Germany in 1964, was a promising
young scientist preparing his PhD thesis at a Max Planck
Institute in Germany in the early 1990s when he was asked by
a lawyer to conduct forensic research on whether or not the
Nazis used gas chambers to mass murder people at Auschwitz.
Rudolf found the evidence wanting, but saying so in his
expert report and as an expert witness in court led to
relentless retaliation by the authorities and mass media of
his native country: He lost his job, had his final PhD exam
denied, was vilified by the mass media, thrown out of his
apartments, had his home searched by the police several
times, and was eventually sentenced to 14 months'
imprisonment for his research results during a trial where
he was denied all opportunity to prove that his research was
correct.
Facing a cascade of further prosecutions for his ongoing
research into this matter, he eventually fled his home
country and tried to find a safe haven first in Spain, then
in England, and finally in the United States. But no matter
where he showed up, he found himself again hunted for his
controversial, yet peaceful scientific publications.
Even the U.S., where he applied for political asylum, denied
him due process and shipped him right back to Germany, where
he was again put on trial for his activities as a science
publisher. Although his activities outside Germany had been
perfectly legal in those places, the German court
nevertheless sentenced Rudolf to thirty more months in
prison for them. They even threatened him that, if he dared
defend himself, he'd be prosecuted for this as well. In the
present book, Rudolf, who once firmly believed in the
orthodox Holocaust narrative, explains what brought him to
doubt it, and why he ventured into a research field where
those who cast doubt on mainstream views are ostracized,
marginalized, persecuted and in many countries even thrown
in jail, as he was.
In several autobiographical essays, Rudolf tells the
gripping story of his twenty-year struggle against
governments the world over trying to silence him with almost
any means. He explains how the existing legal framework in
Germany provides for far-reaching covert government
censorship and the staging of political show trials.
There are, for instance, no transcripts of proceedings in
German courts, an appeal of many court decisions is
impossible, and filing a motion to introduce exonerating
evidence is deemed a crime in certain cases Germany's police
have a dedicated state protection branch going after
political dissidents, and German censorship law allows
banning and confiscating anything the government declares a
threat to public peace. Learn here what America's future
could look like if the First Amendment ever fails to stop
its politicians from committing similar crimes.
Guidance by Sis. Yasmin.
CRY FOR THE WRONGS YOU COMMIT.
KEEP YOURSELF BUSY IN REMEMBERING YOUR OWN FAULTS
~Imam Sufyaan Ath-Thawree { Rahimahullaah }said...
Keep yourself busy in remembering your faults so that you
have no time to remember the faults of others. {!}
Be sad on account of all the time you spent in the past
...
in other than the pursuit of your Hereafter ...{!}
Cry frequently for the wrongs you have committed in the past{!}
and perhaps you will then be saved from them.
NEVER tire or become bored of Good Deeds and
of the people who perform them.'
'Subhanak Allaahuma wa bihamdika ash-hadu anlaa illaaha illa
anta Astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayk'.
[Exalted and Glorified is my Lord (ALLAH) and all prayers and
praises are due to HIM (alone)and I bear witness that there is no
other Lord or God except YOU (ALLAH) I seek your forgiveness
and I repent unto YOU...
[Allah Humma 'Aameen']
**************************
If I said anything correct, then it is from Allaah [Subhanahu wa
Taa'ala] and if I erred, then that is from me and shaytan.
My 'Salaams' to All...
... Y a s m i n
Hadith of the Week
Narrated by
Abu Said Al-Khudri, r.a.:
Allah's Apostle addressed the people saying, "Allah has
given option to a slave to choose this world or what is with
Him.
The slave has chosen what is with Allah." Abu Bakr wept, and
we were astonished at his weeping caused by what the Prophet
mentioned as to a Slave (of Allah) who had been offered a
choice, (we learned later on) that Allah's Apostle himself
was the person who was given the choice, and that Abu Bakr
knew best of all of us.
Allah's Apostle added,
"The person who has favored me most of all both with his
company and wealth, is Abu Bakr. If I were to take a Khalil
other than my Lord, I would have taken Abu Bakr as such, but
(what relates us) is the Islamic brotherhood and
friendliness. All the gates of the Mosque should be closed
except the gate of Abu Bakr."
Bukhari Volume 5,
Book 57, Number 6
[With thanks to Sis. Kristi]
An important detail from Obama's Book about Osama.
Obama said he expected huge backlash from Pakistan President
Zardari, but instead of anger, Zardari "expressed
congratulations and support", and said it was "good
news".
Zardari's reaction is being reported all over the world.
However, for me, the more important phone call was the call
made to the then army chief of Pakistan Gen Ashfaq Pervez
Kayani from the US Admiral Mike Mullen.
The books states:
"Mullen had put a call into Pakistan's army chief, General
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and while the conversation had been
polite, Kayani had requested that we come clean on the raid
and its target as quickly as possible in order to help his
people manage the reaction of the Pakistani public,"
Kayani said if the US would "come clean as quickly as
possible" it would "help his people manage the reaction of
the Pakistani public."
Since May 2011, there has been much talk about the way
Pakistan handled the US announcement of Osama's killing. And
now we know that their motive was to control the public's
reaction.
That's why the Pakistani government continued to promote
doubts on whether Osama was really killed. They wanted the
public to be doubtful and confused - because they knew that
if the public knew Osama had been killed, the military may
not have been able to control the public's reaction.
For months after Osama's death, Kayani's motive was to
suppress protests and confuse the public.
Soon after that, visitors to the building where Osama lived
were discouraged. Then the buidling itself was demolished.
Why?
To remove reminders from the public eye.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi
Pakistan's great preacher passes away in Lahore.
Rizvi, 54, appeared to have died of natural causes after
suffering an illness over the last week, but the exact cause
of his death on Thursday night was not yet clear.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi first came to prominence in 2010, when
he quit his government job as a preacher in protest against
remarks by then Punjab governor Salman Taseer calling for
reforms to the strict blasphemy laws.
After quitting his job, Rizvi travelled across Punjab
province, Pakistan's most populous, preaching in defence of
the blasphemy laws and calling on followers to root out
"blasphemy" wherever they saw it.
"There is only one punishment for those who insult the
Prophet, to cut their heads from their bodies," was a common
slogan.
Rizvi reached national prominence when he led thousands of
TLP protesters in a demonstration against the
then-government of Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim
League-Nawaz (PML-N) party over a minor change in words to
an electoral oath.
Rizvi contended that the change, which omitted a clause that
excluded those of the Ahmadi sect, amounted to blasphemy,
and thousands of his supporters blocked a highway into the
capital Islamabad for three weeks over the issue.
The party he founded, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), was
behind the protests against France over the Prophet
Muhammad's cartoons. Rizvi addressed the protesters at the
demonstration in Islamabad several times but did not remain
on-site for the duration of the protest.
"He was feeling a bit better, he was eating as well. But in
the evening, he once again deteriorated and we brought him
to the hospital [where he was pronounced dead]," he
said.
Rizvi's funeral was attended by the biggest crowd in the
history of Pakistan.
New Trend Editor: May Allah bless him and give him a hgh reward.
Since our poetry night on Sunday, November 15, 2020 - we
recieved an additional 37 poems.
We had 12 honorable mentions and 3 top winners.
All honorable mentions and winners received a trophy and gift card.
Their poems will be published in the New Trend Magazine.
Jazakum Allah Khayran
- ICT Management team
Australia Apologizes
Australian 'war crimes.
Elite troops killed Afghan civilians
There is "credible evidence" that Australian elite soldiers
unlawfully killed 39 people during the Afghan war, a
long-awaited report has found.
It said 19 current or ex-special forces soldiers should be
investigated by police over killings of "prisoners, farmers
or civilians" in 2009-13.
The ADF blamed crimes on an unchecked "warrior culture"
among some soldiers.
The inquiry - conducted by Maj Gen Justice Paul Brereton
-interviewed more than 400 witnesses.
It found evidence that:
Junior soldiers were told to get their first kill by
shooting prisoners, in a practice known as "blooding"
Weapons, and other items were planted near Afghan bodies
to cover up the crimes.
An additional two incidents could constitute a war crime
of "cruel treatment"
Samantha Crompvoets, an academic who carried out the initial
research into the incidents, told the BBC they were
"deliberate, repeated and targeted war crimes" and said she
felt vindicated by the report.
Australia has had forces in Afghanistan since 2002,
following the overthrow of the Taliban, as part of a US-led
coalition. Initially the international forces' role was to
train Afghan troops but they became increasingly involved in
fighting insurgents.
It said 25 special forces soldiers had taken part in
unlawful killings directly or as "accessories", across 23
separate incidents. It recommended 36 incidents be
investigated by federal police. ADF chief Gen Angus
Campbell said none of the incidents were "in the heat of
battle".
"None were alleged to have occurred in circumstances in
which the intent of the perpetrator was unclear, confused or
mistaken," he told reporters on Thursday.
Dr Crompvoets said the incidents "involved in some instances
very influential non-commissioned officers". "Platoon
commanders were encouraging or insisting junior soldiers
execute prisoners to achieve their first kill, so it was
that sort of pattern of behaviour of grooming these junior
soldiers for, or initiating them into, the squadron - that's
what was very disturbing,"
The inquiry was conducted behind closed doors, meaning few
details have been reported until now.
Jewish Settlers Raid Village in West Bank, Attack Palestinian Homes
Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers, escorted by Israeli
soldiers, raided today al-Tuwanah, one of the nine hamlets
of Masafer Yatta, a Bedouin community located south of
Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the occupied West Bank.
Jewish settlers from the illegal settlement of Havat Maon
raided the hamlet and attempted to attack homes of the local
Palestinian residents while verbally assaulting activists,
said Fouad al-Amour, a local activist.
Residents and activists, he said, stood up to and engaged
the settlers, resulting in one resident receiving light
injuries.
Israeli soldiers who were accompanying the settlers
reportedly did nothing to stop the attack and rather
provided the settlers with protection.
