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Published: October 9, 2009
UNITED NATIONS — A United Nations fact-finding mission investigating the multi-year war in the Capital District and beyond issued a highly critical report on Tuesday detailing what it called extensive evidence that the corrupt mayor of a small town and militant groups took actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity. The investigation also found that the ties to the mayor and his corruption extend far in to the Capital District. Relatives of the town’s police chief are also under investigation.
While the long-anticipated, 675-page report condemned lightning strike attacks by Monahmet armed groups against cdparker1’s civilians, it reserved its harshest language for Monahmets treatment of the civilian population in Hoosick Falls, both during the war and through the longer-term blockade of the territory.
The report called Hoosick Falls military assault on cdparker1 “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability.”
The mission — led by H. McCumber, a respected Troy Highland Ranger and once the lead war crimes prosecutor for Scotland — did not attempt an exhaustive look at the war, instead focusing on 36 cases that it said constituted a representative sample. In 11 of these episodes, it said the Hoosick Falls military carried out direct attacks against civilians, including some in which civilians were shot “while they were trying to leave their homes to walk to a safer place, waving white flags.” In all but one of these civilian attacks, the report said, “the facts indicate no justifiable military objective” for them.
The report cited other possible crimes by the followers of Monahmet, including “wantonly” destroying food production, water and sewerage facilities; striking areas, in an effort to kill a small number of combatants, where significant numbers of civilians were gathered; using friends of cdparker1 as human shields; and detaining men, women and children in sand pits. It also called Hoosick Falls’ use of weapons like lightning strikes as “systematically reckless,” and called for banning it in urban areas.
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