Bombing hospitals, clinics, or ambulances is a war crime but for Syrian, Russian, & US-coalition bombers in Syria it is an established military pattern to target them as part of systematically targeting civilians. Assad propagandists justify these crimes against humanity by claiming they never happened or that medical facilities were being used to harbor terrorists. They always have an answer for everything: deny, deny, deny.
What Syria, Russia, & the US-coalition are doing in Syria has precedents with Israeli bombing of medical facilities & ambulances in Gaza, with US bombing of the same in Iraq & Afghanistan, & with Saudi-coalition bombing in Yemen. There really is no way to force militaries to conduct war in a humanitarian way regardless of international law. There is no such fiction as a humanitarian war. The only principled stance is to stand steadfast & oppose all foreign military intervention. That is not a pacifist stance. People have a right to defend themselves by any means necessary. But there isn’t a time in recorded history when bombers were ever used for self-defense.
Kashmir’s youngest pellet gun victim Heeba Nisar with her mom Marsala at a recent protest against their use: Heeba was 19-months-old in November 2018 when Indian soldiers engaged in a hunt to kill operation fired tear gas canisters through the windows of the family home. As Marsala rushed out clasping the baby to escape the toxic smoke, Indian soldiers began firing pellet guns directly at them. Heeba immediately began crying in pain. She was rushed to hospital where the lead pellets were removed from her eye but it is still uncertain if she will recover her vision in that eye. During that military operation, one civilian was killed by Indian soldiers & 50 protesters were injured.
In the Idlib & Hama provinces, Syrian & Russian bombers are not just targeting civilian homes, markets, schools, hospitals, but agricultural fields of wheat & malt crops to deprive farmers of their harvests & impoverish them. This carnage is what Assad propagandists call ‘liberation from jihadi terrorists’.
Ordinarily, I am loathe to post gruesome death photos, especially those of children. But to counter the lack of media reporting from Idlib & Hama about the murderous siege by Syrian & Russian bombers & to counter the characterization by Assadists of those being bombed as ‘jihadi terrorists,’ it is necessary to show who actually are being bombed to death by Syrian & Russian bombers.
These small children were killed today in a helicopter barrel bomb attack on the town of Bara. Can any Assadists explain to us which terrorist cell they belonged to?
During an Indian Army hunt to kill operation today in Shopian where they laid military siege to a town about 50 km from Srinagar, a young man named Sajad Ahmad Parray of Badrahama village was shot to death by Indian forces. Indian Army officials claim he was part of violent protests & was shot pelting soldiers, apparently with rocks, to disrupt the operation. They responded with live ammunition, pellets, & tear gas which caused his death & injuries to eighty other protesters. Informed Kashmiris claim he was working in his family’s orchard when Indian soldiers shot at him for target practice. Doesn’t matter if he was up in their faces with rocks in his hands. They have no rights to be in Kashmir, no rights to start shooting up a town, no rights to use live ammunition against unarmed protesters.
May he Rest In Peace. India out of Kashmir. End the occupation. Self-determination for Kashmir.
This is a very disturbing report about the use of forced sterilization on Indigenous women in Saskatchewan, Canada. Native American women in the US face the exact same problem. Forced sterilization is a problem faced by Black, Latina, & Native American women & is a central issue in population control programs which are racist up to their hairy eyeballs. The women’s liberation movement of the 1960s & 1970s formulated the demand for abortion rights but added a demand against forced sterilization to distinguish feminist concern for reproductive freedom from racist eugenists who wanted abortion as an appendage to forced sterilization.
Perhaps feminism will soon develop beyond its self-indulgent ’empowerment’ phase to get back to the politics of women’s rights & join forces with Black, Latina, & Native American women in fighting the scourge of forced sterilization & population control which are disguised forms of genocide.
These young men are waiting to donate blood for another who was hit by a bullet in the Kulgam hunt to kill operation today in Kashmir. These are the very same men who the Indian Army attempts to portray as violent, antisocial elements, even ‘jihadis’. We think they do the human race proud.
This young guy is one of the 60 protesters injured in the hunt to kill operation at Kulgam in Kashmir today. If pellet guns are “inherently inaccurate” as Amnesty International India says, why do 70-percent of the injuries affect the eyes of young people, causing partial or full blindness? With such a high injury rate to the eyes, one could claim that eyes are being targeted & that pellet munitions are extremely accurate besides being barbaric.
