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April 6, 2010

US-Backed Pakistani Troops Accused of Carrying Out Assassinations
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Human Rights Watch has accused US-backed Pakistani troops of carrying
out more than 200 extrajudicial killings in the past eight months of
suspected Taliban sympathizers. Most of the killings have occurred in
the Swat Valley. Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch said, “People are
taken away, and sometimes they turn up a few days or weeks later having
been tortured. Sometimes they disappear. Sometimes their body is dumped
with a bullet in the head.” The US has given more than $15 billion in
aid to Pakistan since the September 11 attacks.



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