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Related: About this forumRights group blasts Hamas over collaborator deaths
JERUSALEM (AP) An international rights group condemned Gaza's Hamas rulers Thursday for failing to investigate the public killing of seven Palestinian men accused of spying for Israel.
A Hamas government spokesman called the condemnation "biased" and said the incident had been investigated.
The Human Rights Watch condemnation comes the same day Hamas is ending an amnesty for suspected collaborators to turn themselves into authorities. A countdown on the Interior Ministry's website shows the hours nearing zero.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Gaza's Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh promised an investigation after masked Hamas gunmen killed the suspects and dragged their bodies through the streets four months ago.
"Hamas's inability or unwillingness to investigate the brazen murders of seven men makes a mockery of its claims that it's upholding the rule of law in Gaza," said Sarah Leah Whitson of HRW.
http://news.yahoo.com/rights-group-blasts-hamas-over-collaborator-deaths-120532063.html
shenmue
(38,501 posts)Let's stop pretending.
King_David
(14,851 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)More from the HRW report:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/11/gaza-collaborator-murders-go-unpunished
King_David
(14,851 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)The fact that a rights group would criticize Hamas is beyond vile. The only excuse I can imagine was they were trying to criticize Israel and somehow missed.
shira
(30,109 posts)They're doing Israel's hasbara work!
Look-over-there-at-Hamas-Occupation-Washing!
King_David
(14,851 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)that the innocent babies that make up hamas would do something like this. Simply shocked.
LeftishBrit
(41,190 posts)and this sort of political lynching without a trial, totally against justice.