UN approached over targeted killings of Pakistani Shias
– by Murtaza Ali Shah
Source: The News, 1 June 2013
LONDON: All Parliamentary Human Rights Group in the British Parliament has submitted to the United Nations what is believed by many to be the largest application the Special Rapporteurs may have dealt with about the targeted assassinations of Shia Muslims in Pakistan.
Lord Eric Avebury, vice chair of the group, has called on the United Nations to take notice of what he has called “the genocide of Shias in Pakistan”.
Lord Avebury told The News:
“This is not a case of one or two individuals being killed but a systematic countrywide pogrom against the whole of the Shia population of Pakistan which has so far taken the lives of over 21,000 people by banned organisations, which nevertheless operate with almost total impunity. As far as we can see, the government of Pakistan has proved unable to protect the hundreds of victims of these merciless assassins.”
Categories: Anti Islam act by Muslims, Anti-Islam Attitude, Europe
HRRIF strongly supports the efforts of the group in restoration of human rights of shias in Pakistan