Pakistan Army Accused of Extrajudicial Killings in Swat, BBC News, 16 July 2010
EXCERPT: "The Pakistani army has carried out 238 extrajudicial killings of people in the Swat Valley since September last year, says a report from Human Rights Watch. It documents cases where members of the army allegedly took away Taliban suspects, who were later found dead, their bodies riddled with bullets. A military spokesman denied the army had engaged in extrajudicial killings. The army said it had driven insurgents from Swat following a massive offensive against them last year. [...] The HRW report says that while police have also been involved in the killings, most of them have been carried out by the army. It details seven cases where Taliban suspects have been arrested and taken away by the army. Their bodies have later been found with bullet wounds and marks of torture. In one case, the report names a specific unit of the army, the 12th Punjab regiment, as being responsible. According to the report, the regiment detained a resident of the Matta area of Swat, Farman Ali, along with two other men on 28 March this year. The bodies of the other two men were later produced by the military and presented as Taliban militants who had allegedly been killed in a clash with the army. Then Mr Ali's body, with a gunshot wound to the head, turned up in a field on 26 May."
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