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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: U.S. Bombings - (nf)
Message-ID: <3690@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 22:41:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  7 22:41:31 1983
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uiucdcs!renner    Nov  6 13:49:00 1983

/***** uiucdcs:net.politics / utcsstat!rao /  7:25 pm  Oct 31, 1983 */
Well, well!! The US just killed (murdered) 47 defenceless mental patients!!!
Where are all the critics ??? 
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It is customary in war to mark a medical facility with a large red cross
clearly visible from the air.  Once this is done, it is considered bad
form to drop bombs on it.

According to two reports in American newspapers, some of those present at the
hospital at the time (a nurse and a psychiatric worker) say that the hospital
was not so marked.  Instead, it was occupied by soldiers who flew Grenadian
(sp?) flags from it and fired out of it.  Responsibility for such civilian
deaths rests only with the soldiers who use them as a shield.

It is interesting to speculate on the motives of the soldiers who occupied
the hospital.  One wonders if their actions were designed to provoke an
American attack on a mental hospital in order to reap the propaganda benfits.

Scott Renner
...pur-ee!uiucdcs!renner