WARNING to SWAT CIVILIANS to FLEE - HOW to HELP

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THERE IS NO WAR WITHOUT VICTIMS

UPDATES Monday May 18, 2009
Humanitarian Concerns

Amnesty International seeks safe passage for migrants
Monday, May 18, 2009 Bureau report PESHAWAR:

The Amnesty International has demanded of both the military and militants to immediately allow tens of thousands of civilians caught in the middle of ferocious fighting in Malakand Division leave for safer places.Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Director Sam Zarifi in a press release said more than half a million Pakistanis have fled the conflict zone in the last three weeks, bringing the total number of civilians displaced in the last year to 1.3 million.“But approximately 700,000 people remain trapped in Swat valley according to a local parliamentarian,” he said. “The thousands of people in Malakand, who have not been able to flee, now face a major humanitarian crisis,” he said.Sam Zarifi added that the militants had shown disregard for the safety and well being of the stranded people. “But now the army seems to be pursuing a scorched earth policy. The Pakistani military has imposed a shoot-on-sight policy for anyone violating an indefinite curfew established in Malakand. The curfew was announced from local mosques and through loudspeakers mounted on pick-up trucks,” he said.

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