Police planning to attack the refugees in Darfur!

Darfur has seen many a bloody battle of late between the police and armed militants on one side and the unarmed refugees on the other. It is indeed a shame that the United nations and the rest of the world is hesitating to take aggressive action when it is most needed at places like Darfur. Instead of worrying about Iran and Iraq and the rest of the Middle east, maybe it is high time not to think but to act as far as Darfur is concerned. The government in Sudan is playing the African union and the other leaders by asking for time while it undertakes continual elimination of the refugees in Darfur.

What makes this whole situation sad is that these people are kids,women and old men and as such they neither have the arms or the strength to fight the police and the armed militants at the same time. What is more the Police at Darfur often undertake raids into the refugee camps under one pretext or the other and what ensues is often cold blooded assault as well as murder of the unarmed refugees. Since the African union does not have the courage to step in and prevent this massacre then it is up to the United nations as well as to the other countries to do something about this!

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Bhutto gets arrested and all hell breaks loose!

At last the opposition in Pakistan have a face to go with their movement. As Bhutto was preparing to leave for a rally in Rawalpindi, the barricade around her house became even more tougher. But the PPP party workers managed to get through the barricade and started shouting slogans and no prizes there as to what they were protesting about. The basic freedom is gone in Pakistan and the martial law is in place. It is no wonder that the very common man on the streets of Pakistan wants to protest against Musharraf and his goons.
The detention order placing Bhutto under house arrest was then served on her. The last time I saw the live broadcast of Bhutto on the BBC,she was giving a speech and listing out every one's objections. Then the police surrounded her and I have no idea as to what has happened to her. All i hear from the television channels is that one moment she was standing there giving a speech and then the microphone was snatched away from her and then she disappeared. The official version is that she is under house arrest, but it is any body's guess as to where she has been taken by the Pakistani security forces. Either way, the opposition against Musharraf has now got the face of Benazir Bhutto and let us hope that Musharraf listens to reason and this emergency ends real soon!

Troop withdrawl from Iraq!

Finally George bush has announced that there will be a 'gradual' troop withdrawal from Iraq.finally we can all think that the curtains are coming down at last on a war that should have never taken place.but if we think that,then we are making a mistake.i agree that this war should have never happened especially not in the way that it did,all based on a pack of lies.even now the so called 'weapons of mass destruction' are yet to materialise in any form whatsoever.
Be that as it may,if the troops withdraw now,they will end up pushing Iraq into a civil war of sorts.since the United States started this war based on a pack of lies,they have the responsibility to see that Iraq has a stable government and that peace and security reigns once again in that region.they have to make sure that the insurgents in Iraq are dealt with before any withdrawal can take place.at the very least this will usher in some peace and security into the region.ever since the United states declared war on Iraq,the citizens of that country have not enjoyed any iota of peace and stability.it is the responsibility of the U.S army to make sure that law and order prevails in that country and that the people have at the very least some basic amenities.

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Baghdad bomb kills 76!

A truck bomb blasted a wall at the Khillani mosque in the capital's commercial area of Sinak to bits and peices.as usual the military and the current Iraqi government could not do anything about this.this bomb attack has all the trademarks of the Al-Qaeda in it.the militants are trying their best to inflame the sectarianism between the sunnis and the shiites.
A truck bomb struck a Shiite mosque Tuesday in central Baghdad, killing 75 people and wounding more than 200.most of those who were killed had come to worship at the mosque.the mosque is another one of those holy shiite shrine.attacks against such shrines as well as heads of such religious sects are not just increasing in their frequency but in their ferocity as well.while a bomb of lesser calibre was used in earlier occasions the militants have taken to using more powerful explosives and thereby are able to get more casualties with their bombs.currently the casualty figures for the United States army based in Iraq stands at 3,528 which i am sure would have gone up as this post is made.at the moment both the allied forces as well as the iraqi forces are doing their best to root out the militants from their hideouts and in the process have recovered various arms as well as torture implements,the purpose of which it is better not to know.Iraq is bleeding day after day and will it end in the near future?not likely so!

7 children killed by the U.S forces!

Afghanistan of late seems to have come under attack by a wave of suicide bombers.Afghanistan rightly pointed the finger at Pakistan which it accuses of trying to destabilise its government.but in the midst of all this the U.S led forces decided to take on the insurgents only to kill 7 innocent children.it is the young and the old who are suffering the most be it Iraq or Afghanistan.the militants use them as human shields and the end result is that now '7 kids are dead'.
First of all both the United Nations as well as the International Red cross should both step in and make sure that such practises of human shields are not permitted.what is wrong with these people that they have to resort to such practises.
What makes all this worse is the fact that the U.S forces seems to have no second thoughts on attacking such human shields.now 7 kids are dead so what is the U.S going to tell their parents,that they are sorry?would just an apology be okay?will it bring the kids back to life?why should the life of a U.S soldier be much more valued than that of a kid?it is high time that both the United nations and the Red cross stepped in both Afghanistan and Iraq if not to administer the countries at least to ensure that both the old and the young of both of these nations have at least a little semblance of safety!by the way the dead boys are aged between 10 to 16 years.the blood of the young and the old is running on the ground.will the world answer to that??

Darfur cries!

Will no one stop what is happening in Darfur?it seems that with the United States taking a firm line on the entire darfur mess and giving a stern warning to Sudan,that alone should at the very least stopped the sudanese army from commiting any further atrocities on the refugees fleeing Sudan.but no,if anything else,it seems to have emboldened them to commit further atrocities agaist the refuges.
it seems that for the Sudanese army it is not enough that they chase out the innocents out of thier own homes,but they are currently dropping bombs by the ton on the fleeing refugees.a genocide o sorts is currently taking place in Darfur.it is high time that the world stood firm against Sudan and said 'NO' in a single united voice!

U.S army man's body floats down the Euphrates!

Today an U.S army man's body was found floating down the Euphrates river just south of Baghdad.the person in question was found to have been shot on the head and chest.when the officials were asked about this,they denied all of this.about three U.S armymen were kidnapped while they were on thier patrol of baghdad.this person whose body nwas found is thought to be one of them.what really troubles me is the fact that first of all that not one but three army men were kidnapped in Baghdad with such ease.then the case of the officials not saying anything concrete,neither confirming that the dead person is an U.S army man,one of the three who had been kidnapped in Baghdad recently or that the dead person is not an U.S army man.do the top honchos in the U.S army realise the stree and trouble they are putting the families of the three kidnapped soldiers through?do they realise that the three families are right now praying to god that this dead person who was found on the Euphrates is not their son?does the army realise the emotional stress that they are putting the family through?i just hope that all of this confusion is resolved really soon!