Pakistan to investigate video of executions it first dismissed as fake

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Source: LA Times

The video circulating on the Internet shows the firing squad execution of six blindfolded men by what appear to be Pakistani soldiers. The army says a board of inquiry will now investigate.

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By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times

October 8, 2010|7:03 a.m.
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Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — Pakistan's army chief Friday ordered an investigation into a video circulating through the Internet showing the brutal firing squad execution of six blindfolded Pakistanis by a group of men dressed in what appear to be Pakistani army uniforms.

Pakistani army Chief of Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's call for the probe reverses the army's initial reaction when the video first surfaced last month. At that time, military authorities called the video fake and denied that any Pakistani soldier could be involved in extrajudicial killings.

The five-minute, 39-second video shows the six men, blindfolded with their hands bound behind their backs, being led through a thicket of trees to an open patch near a wall, where they are lined up shoulder-to-shoulder by men in military fatigues and armed with automatic rifles. After one of the uniformed men who appears to be the commander says to the soldiers, "OK," the soldiers fire a volley of shots into the blindfolded men.





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