AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC
STATEMENT
29 October 2009
At
least 80 civilians were killed and 200 injured when a car bomb exploded in the
busy Peepal Market in the city of Peshawar on Wednesday, media reports say. No
group has yet claimed responsibility.
Amnesty
International reiterates that the targeting of civilians cannot be condoned
under any circumstances. All groups must renounce such attacks which flout the
most basic principles of international law.
At
least 200 people have been killed in similar attacks across Pakistan in recent
weeks, according to media reports.
Amnesty
International last week called on the Pakistani army to stop harassing and
targeting members of Mehsud tribe, in the countries North West Frontier
Province.
The
Pakistani military has prevented members of the tribe to use major roads to
flee the conflict zone, presumably because some of the tribe’s members are
involved in the senior leadership of the Pakistani Taleban witnesses told
Amnesty International,
Amnesty
International has also called on the government of Pakistan to do much more to
meet the humanitarian needs of hundreds of thousands of civilians who are
displaced due to military operations in Pakistan's tribal belt against Taleban
militants and other insurgent groups.
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