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Rev. Sequoyah Kofi-Ade, editor of the Voice of a Native Son blog asks why Hezbollah is being charged by Amnesty International with war crimes while the Israeli and American governments are not.
This hypocrisy is telling and if anything making the world that much less safe.
LONDON (AFP) - The militant Shiite group Hezbollah committed war crimes in its deliberate targeting of civilians in the recent conflict with Israel, according to Amnesty International.
The London-based human rights group said the guerillas fired nearly 4,000 rockets into northern Israel, killing 43 civilians, seriously injuring 33 others and forcing hundreds of thousands to take refuge or flee.
About a quarter of all rockets -- some packed with thousands of metal ball bearings -- were fired directly into urban areas, it added in a nine-page document called "Under fire -- Hezbollah's attacks on northern Israel".
If Amnesty International goes through with charging Hezbollah while not charging Israel and the United States for similar charges, AI has effectively lost all credibility in the arena of international law. - The Angryindian/Rev. Kofi-Ade
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