{"id":187219,"date":"2013-05-10T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/10\/pakistani-court-makes-ruling-our-court-should-make\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:58:00","slug":"pakistani-court-makes-ruling-our-court-should-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/10\/pakistani-court-makes-ruling-our-court-should-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Court Makes Ruling Our Court Should Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 300px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OpZ8EkK3eWY\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Beginning to think that we are the bad guys<\/i><\/div>\n<p>It has <a href=\"http:\/\/dissenter.firedoglake.com\/2013\/05\/09\/pakistan-court-decision-finds-us-drone-strikes-are-war-crimes-which-are-absolutely-illegal\/\">ruled that US drone strikes are \u2018War Crimes,\u2019 and \u2018Absolutely Illegal\u2019<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A high court in Pakistan has found that United States drone strikes carried out in Pakistan by the CIA are war crimes, which are \u201cabsolutely illegal\u201d and a \u201cblatant violation\u201d of Pakistan\u2019s state sovereignty.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The decision comes in a lawsuit filed by the Foundation for Fundamental Rights (FFR), a legal charity in Islamabad, which sued the Pakistan government for failing to protect its own citizens from US drone strikes. The suit was filed in May 2012 on behalf of victims of a drone attack that occurred in North Waziristan and killed more than fifty people.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, it won&#8217;t effect the actions of <b>our<\/b> government.<\/p>\n<p>Laws are for the little countries, don&#8217;t you know, so we don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning to think that we are the bad guys It has ruled that US drone strikes are \u2018War Crimes,\u2019 and \u2018Absolutely Illegal\u2019: A high court in Pakistan has found that United States drone strikes carried out in Pakistan by the CIA are war crimes, which are \u201cabsolutely illegal\u201d and a \u201cblatant violation\u201d of Pakistan\u2019s state &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,1151,1076,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-south-asia","category-terrorism","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}