...The attack, on Wednesday night, took place near the village of Uludere in Sirnak province in south-eastern Turkey, according to Dogan news agency.
The Turkish military said it had targeted suspected Kurdish militants.
In a statement, Turkey's general staff said the area attacked on Wednesday night was inside northern Iraq and had no civilian population. It added that the raid was launched following information that the group planned to attack Turkish security bases.
Provincial governor Vahdettin Ozkan said initially that more than 20 people had lost their lives but his office later clarified that 35 had been killed and one wounded.
"A crisis centre is being formed at the scene and prosecutors and security officers were sent there," he told Anatolia news agency.
The mayor of Uludere was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that all the victims had suffered from burns....
Burns? What the heck?
...Local officials said drums of diesel carried by the group had exploded.
Those killed had been using mules to cross the border when the incident happened, they said. It was also reported that they had been smugglers returning to Turkey from Iraq.
"We were on our way back when the jets began to bomb us," a survivor, Servet Encu, told the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency.
Smuggling of fuel and cigarettes is said to be commonplace between villages along the Iraqi border. But rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have crossed the border into Turkey to stage attacks on Turkish forces.
After 24 Turkish soldiers were killed in PKK raids in October, Turkish forces responded with a series of air and ground attacks....
It would seem as though Northern Iraq still needs an economy and consistent fuel source. Diesel smuggled to other Kurds. Oh, well. The attack was deliberate. They were able to discern the containers of fuel and lit it up. I sincerely believe the drones are becoming a profound issue of human rights. They deliver attacks on unidentified targets in mass numbers, it reminds me of carpet bombs, white phosphorus and land mines.
Just to clarify why drones are now a threat to human rights; the Geneva convention states civilian deaths in war is a crime. Any 'mechanism' allowing civilian deaths for the sake of victory is a human rights violation. The drones are now noted to have a consistent misuse of the technology and provides for frequent 'mistakes.' Nuclear weapons are such a technology as well.
This sums it up well. Genocide in war is not to be a directive of the conflict.
...after the Second World War, (click here) in 1949, with a third and fourth Geneva Convention. The latter regulate the protection of civilian populations in war areas. All member nations ratified the fourth Geneva treaty. The Geneva treaties contain the obligation to penalize severe violations of humanitarian international law. The fourth Geneva treaty was drawn up in particular because the number of civilian casualties in World War II surpassed the number of soldiers killed in action. In the case of a nuclear strike, which can develop into a nuclear war, the civilian population will be the primary target and to an extent that is completely out of relation with the casualties of any previous war. In such a situation the number of immediate casualties, as well as of subsequent victims among the civilian population defies imagination. The Protocol I, Additional of June 1977 to the Geneva Conventions, forbids amongst other things any attack on an atomic power station...
Currently, Hamas is running into problems with a textbook definition of genocide in Gaza as they target Fatah members living in Gaza; yet they act with impunity in global dynamics. I mean what the heck is Hamas trying to do, first have Fatah assist in defining Palestine as a sovereign nation on the international stage and then kill off all their members? This is not a sovereign state of government whereby a specific political group is the focus of assassinations and at the very least prison, if Gaza has a prison.
Hamas security officials using batons to detain Fatah supporters during clashes in Gaza City on Sept. 7, 2007.
...An independent Palestinian rights group (click here) says the militant Hamas rulers in Gaza are targeting members of the rival Fatah group, questioning them and searching homes.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said in its report on Thursday that Hamas summoned a total of 50 former members of Fatah security forces this week....
Oh, well it is only detentions to see if they can get away with the real thing. Fifty party members are not detentions, it is a strategy to go forward. Ya know, Hamas is impressive, now the rest of the world has to figure out if they are acting out of pure ignorance to understand what winning an election means or was this suppose to happen after the election as promised. And of course, Israel is suppose to understand every bit of the dynamics here. I don't know why that is the case, Israeli elections are brutal, but, do not result in torture or imprisonment for losing.
