Pakistan: Seven charity workers shot dead

[Sprightly]

"Seven charity workers, six of them women, have been shot dead in north-west Pakistan, police say.

The women, some of them teachers, were attacked near a children's community centre. A male colleague died with them. All were Pakistani citizens."

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Last month, in a series of attacks, gunmen killed nine health workers taking part in a national polio vaccination drive.

While the Pakistani Taliban have denied carrying out the killings, they have long denounced the vaccination drive as a Western plot either to gather intelligence or to sterilise Muslim children.

The killings prompted the UN children's agency and the World Health Organisation to suspend work on polio campaigns in the country."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20880948

Sixteen dead because the "west" is trying to innoculate kids with the polio vaccination. I honestly question why people even bother trying to help in these countries.

[Up2DaRack]

If you can keep the masses illiterate and ignorant, you can rule them far easier. Fear and hatred can be stoked far easier. It is unfortunate however that some stories leaked out about doctors aiding the CIA in its attempt to find Bin Laden through these programs - whether true or not, these stories certainly cannot have helped the situation. Nonetheless, it seems as though the Taliban cares little for the tribes it wishes to rule. And so the children suffer. So too for those poor charity workers - what a tragic waste.