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BBC shoots foot
Day after day, the BBC web-site produces articles about "innocent" Muslims, "atrocities", "criminal activities", and most of all shooting of the civilians in Sarajevo
This is the image of the "civilians" hiding from the wicked, evil Serbians "attacking Sarajevo" - I wonder how did the civilian in the middle get a military beret and a rifle?
Radovan Karadzic the former president of the Serbian entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina has been accused of litany of charges.
One charge was the "siege of Sarajevo", where he allegedly ordered shooting on the civilians. The BBC carelessly published the enclosed image. Note that in the middle of these "civilians" there is a uniformed man with a rifle pointed upwards. One could reasonably conclude that:
a) the Serbian target were not civilians
and
b) Muslim soldiers may have been hiding among the civilians
And one of the two points is sufficient as exculpatory evidence in the charge of "targeting civilians in Sarajevo"
Some few thousand miles to the South, in today's BBC we find the following, are they all legitimate military targets?
Turkish jets target PKK in Iraq
The Turkish military has said its warplanes have attacked Kurdish separatist targets in northern Iraq.
The military, in a statement on its website, said 13 targets were "successfully hit" in the raids.
There was no information on any casualties suffered by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Wednesday's attacks, in the Zap region, were the latest in a series carried out by Turkey since it intensified operations at the end of last year.
The Turkish statement said its military would press ahead with anti-PKK operations inside Turkey and across the border in Iraq "according to military needs".
Turkey accuses PKK rebels of using hideouts in northern Iraq as part of their campaign for self-rule in mainly Kurdish south-east Turkey.
Some 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK launched its campaign in 1984.
When you put all the Kurds together (including the newborns) you can't get 40,000 fighters - there is a very strong probability that most were civilians, but what the heck? Turkey, UK, France, USA are all NATO members and they don't have to follow the same rules of that silly Geneva convention.
One does not have to be an accomplished jurist to figure out the truth (or the lack thereof) in the famed BBC pages.
Same day, same edition of BBC online, shows us how Turkey manages to find only military targets outside its borders. Different standards perhaps?