Archive for July 10th, 2009
Posted by warvictims on July 10, 2009
The Times
By RHYS BLAKELY
About 1,400 people are dying every week at the giant Manik Farm internment camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the nation’s bloody civil war, senior international aid sources have told The Times.
The death toll will add to concerns that the Sri Lankan Government has failed to halt a humanitarian catastrophe after announcing victory over the Tamil Tiger terrorist organisation in May. It may also lend credence to allegations that the Government, which has termed the internment sites “welfare villages”, has actually constructed concentration camps to house 300,000 people. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Actors, Blogroll, Body Count, Civilian Casualties, Country, Displacement, Government, Other, Refugee Camps, Region, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Type of Harm | Tagged: Civilian Casualties, civilian death toll, civilian deaths, ICRC, IDP camps, IDPs, internally displaced people, LTTE, Manik Farm, President Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 10, 2009
Der Spiegel
07/09/2009
Behind closed doors, the German government is slowly but surely changing the rules for combat on Afghanistan, allowing its forces to take a more offensive approach. At the same time, German popular support for the “war” that no one wants to a call war continues to decline. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Country, Government, Insurgents, Military, NATO/Allies, Peacekeepers, Region, Taliban, Terrorists | Tagged: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, al-Qaida, Bundeswehr, Charar Dara, Chechens, German Special Forces, Germany, islamists, Kunduz, NATO document, peacekeeping, Police, Taliban, Uzbeks | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 10, 2009
TIME
By Mark Thompson in Washington and Aryn Baker in Kabu
07/09/2009
The headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul looks more like a college campus than the nerve center of a military operation involving more than 90,000 troops from 41 countries, its staff officers roaming the halls in each nation’s distinct patterns of camouflage. On July 3, on a wooden deck at the back of his office in the compound, shaded by trees and a garden umbrella, U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, who recently became ISAF’s commander, and that of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, sat down to discuss his new role. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Country, Government, ISAF, Insurgents, Military, NATO/Allies, Region, Taliban, United States | Tagged: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, al-Qaida, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Helman offensive, Insurgents, International Security Assistance Force, Iraq, ISAF, Kabul, militants, Pakistan, poppies, poppy, Taliban, US forces, us military | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 10, 2009
By Anna Husarska
Friday, July 10, 2009
KABUL — The new commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, announced: “The Afghan people are at the center of our mission. In reality, they are the mission.” The four-star general was wearing military fatigues, but his wording sounded civilian. Indeed, when President Obama explained in March how the United States plans “to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” he ordered a “civilian surge” in Afghanistan. But make no mistake: The civilian part of the coalition operations here is subservient to the military arm, and the two are known together as an “integrated approach.” Read the rest of this entry »
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