Massacre Imminent in Fallujah?
Tom | 09.04.2004 17:10
It is been reported that during the brief, tenuous 90 minute US ceasefire earlier today in Fallujah that US troops announced over loudspeakers that all civilians should leave the city EXCEPT men of 'fighting age'(1).
The US also insisted that AL Jazeera's camera crew leaves Fallujah as a condition of the ceasefire to let in humanitarian aid(2).
It appears that the US are preparing to eliminate, by death or capture, all males between say 14 and 60 in Fallujah. The US has already warned the population they face a choice between the US forces and the militants, and told people to leave the city. Arial bombing has apparantly been heavy today, and US tanks have destroyed 10+ civilian homes. Up to 450 people have been killed, in all probability mostly civilians as there are many pictures of dead children coming out(2).
The talk of 'fighting age males' brings to mind Serbian/KLA ethnic cleansing in the Kosovo war. The US have done worse before . . .
Notes
(1) ITV Teletext, analogue TV service 09/04/04, 18:00 hrs.
(2)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/35D16627-E268-4ACE-B0E0-553C6624058D.htm
It appears that the US are preparing to eliminate, by death or capture, all males between say 14 and 60 in Fallujah. The US has already warned the population they face a choice between the US forces and the militants, and told people to leave the city. Arial bombing has apparantly been heavy today, and US tanks have destroyed 10+ civilian homes. Up to 450 people have been killed, in all probability mostly civilians as there are many pictures of dead children coming out(2).
The talk of 'fighting age males' brings to mind Serbian/KLA ethnic cleansing in the Kosovo war. The US have done worse before . . .
Notes
(1) ITV Teletext, analogue TV service 09/04/04, 18:00 hrs.
(2)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/35D16627-E268-4ACE-B0E0-553C6624058D.htm
Tom
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