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Bencana Perang VI

(Collateral Damage VI)

Rabu Oktober 31,01. - Pesawat perang Amerika Syarikat sekali lagi telah mengebom dan menghancurkan sebuah lagi hospital di Afghanistan.

Hospital itu dimilikki oleh Green Crescent Organisation (Pertubuhan Sabit Hijau) satu pertubuhan Islam yang menyerupai Pertubuhan Sabit Merah, di Kandahar. Sebelas mangsa terbunuh dalam serangan udara itu, yang berlaku pada pagi Oktober 31 kira-kira 01.30.

Serangan itu telah dikecam oleh jurucakap hospital tersebut, Dr. Obaidullah dan telah diperakukan oleh wartawan barat yang berpangkalan di Kandahar.

Inilah satu lagi kemalangan dalam barisan bencana perang yang dicetuskan oleh AS yang berbangga dengan peluru berpandu yang canggih dengan senjata pintarnya. Inilah bentuk serangan yang menaikkan kemarahan dunia islam, yang semakin tertekan dengan berita lanjutan serangan untuk sepanjang Ramadhan.

Kamal Kharazzi, Menteri Luar Iran, telah menyebut dalam lawatannya di Jakarta, bahwa serangan pada bulan Ramadhan adalah satu penghinaan kepda dunia Islam. 'Dari awal lagi kami tidak menyetujui tindakan ketenteraan terhadap Afghanistan ....serangan di bulan Ramadhan tidak dapat diterima.'

'Ramadhan semakin menjelang dan saya khuatir operasi ketenteraan yang berpanjangan terhadap Afghanistan akan mengaibkan rakyatnya, dan juga keseluruhan umat Islam di dunia ini..' Presiden Hosmi Mubarak daripada Mesir, dan Pervez Musharaf daripda Pakistan telah pun meminta Amerika Syarikat menamatkan kempen ketenteraannya secepat mungkin.

Kalaulah serangan keganasan terhadap Pusat Dagang Dunia dan Pentagaon dianggap tidak sah, begitu juga pengeboman hospitan dan bekalan makanan.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey.
Pravda.Ru. Lisbon. Portugal.

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2001-11-01

COLLATERAL DAMAGE VI

Wednesday October 31st - United States military aircraft have destroyed another hospital in Afghanistan.

The hospital belonged to the Green Crescent Organisation, the Islamic equivalent of the Red Cross, in Kandahar. Eleven people were killed in the strike, which took place before dawn on October 31st, around 01.30 MSK.

The attack was denounced by a spokesperson of the hospital, Dr. Obaidullah and was confirmed by western journalists stationed in Kandahar.

Yet another incident in a string of 'collateral damage' accidents caused by the US military's 'precision weaponry' will further inflame the Moslem populations, some of whom are becoming increasingly agitated with the advent of Ramadan.

Kamal Kharrazi, the Iranian Foreign Minister, stated on a visit to Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, that to continue the attacks into Ramadan will be to insult the Moslem world. 'From the beginning we have not agreed with the military action against Afghanistan' this (bombing during Ramadan) is unacceptable'.

'Ramadan is coming and I am afraid that the continuation of a military operation against Afghanistan will insult people, especially the Moslems around the world'. Presidents Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Pervez Musharaf of Pakistan have asked the United States to conclude its military campaign as soon as possible.

While the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon were illegal, so it the bombing of hospitals and food supplies.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
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