Increasing attacks on Pakistan civilians are possible war crimes

Monday 19 April 2010 Insurgent groups have been condemned for killing 65 people in the recent bombings of a displaced people's camp, a school and a bazaar. Amnesty International on Monday condemned the increasing number of attacks on civilian targets by Pakistani insurgent groups, including on an internally displaced people's camp in Kohat on 17 April that killed at least 41 people as they queued for relief supplies. This bombing was followed by the deaths of 24 people in two separate attacks in Peshawar on Monday, one on a high school and the other in Peshawar's central Qissakhani bazaar."The…

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