Massive Protest Among Khyber Tribesmen After Military Massacre
Protesters Dump Bodies of Victims at Govt Office in Peshawar
Pakistan’s military launches offensives against the Khyber Agency often enough, and claims huge death tolls of ill-defined “militant” factions, but they seem to have struck a particular chord last night, when members of the Frontier Corps (FC) attacked a village and massacred 15 civilians.
Several thousand protesters from the Khyber Agency marched on Peshawar, the largest Pakistani city near the tribal agencies, and brought the bodies of the victims with them, dumping the corpses outside of a government office.
“They entered our houses and killed our relatives to avenge the killing of six security personnel in the same area on Monday night,” insisted one of the protesters, himself a former FC member.
This is the second major massacre the FC has been accused of in less than a month, as they were also found responsible for Christmas Eve attacks on several Balochistan villages, which killed over 50 civilians.
The FC only operates in Balochistan and the tribal areas, and is given more or less a free hand with its attacks. Large civilian death tolls are common in FC raids, but there are rarely any repercussions for such killings, reflecting the relatively few rights Pashtun tribesmen and Balochs have in modern Pakistan.
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MvGuy
January 17th, 2013 at 5:35 am
Imran Khan….. Imran Khan…..
Nappy
January 17th, 2013 at 5:45 am
More names for Obama's Killed List.
ubikwitus
January 17th, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Next week or next month we'll hear how the insurgents captured and then executed a number of border guards. It's tit for tat in the tribal areas.
LibertyTreeBud
January 18th, 2013 at 12:00 pm
What does this tell you?
"Large civilian death tolls are common in FC raids, but there are rarely any repercussions for such killings, reflecting the relatively few rights Pashtun tribesmen and Balochs have in modern Pakistan."
It tells you that if you can't fight back then you're killed without fanfare by people given license to kill you and it can be your own governing power that executes you.
America's people can still fight back the tyranny of malevolent abuse of power. Keep your weapons, Americans have God & the second amendment that grants them the power to use defensive weapons. In my book, all weapons in civilian hands are defensive weapons when used to protect life, limb, family and property, even if that property is our consciousness.