HRW is a failed and blatantly bias international organization. Pathetic.
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The tragic story of Manee Singmueangphon , a Thai migrant worker who was killed when a rocket struck an Israeli greenhouse north of Gaza on Thursday March 18, was barely given any in-depth coverage in the mainstream media. Most news reports simply stated that a Thai migrant worker was killed in a rocket attack, not even giving the victim a name. Indeed, almost no western leader or human rights organization directed words of condemnation to the Islamic terrorists who fired the rockets that killed Manee... Those foreign officials who did voice condemnation glazed over very general statements that held no one in Gaza responsible for the rocket attack. Catherine Ashton, the top EU diplomat who happened to be entering Gaza at the time the rocket was fired at Israeli civilians on the other side, responded that she condemned "any kind of violence," while UN Chief Ban Ki-moon stressed that all acts of violence are "totally unacceptable." Indeed, is 'unacceptable' really the most appropriate term to describe the murder of another human being at the hand of radical Islamic terrorists? ...If the Thai national would have been killed in Gaza, in an Israeli defense operation, world reaction would have been far stronger... Human Rights Watch, however, made it clear in its March 19 report titled Gaza: End Impunity for Indiscriminate Rocket Attacks, that Hamas bared sole responsibility for violating laws of war. "Hamas as the de facto authority in Gaza has the responsibility to stop indiscriminate rocket attacks into Israel," according to Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at HRW. The HRW report stated that "deliberate or indiscriminate attacks against civilians are serious violations of the laws of war. Such attacks committed willfully, that is, intentionally or recklessly, are war crimes that are subject to criminal prosecution." ...Stork called such explanations a "diversion." "The laws of war never permit indiscriminate attacks regardless of the conduct of the other side," he stated.Thanks SJackson.