All right, then. You seem to be assembling a mountain of facts suggestive of what McGrath speculated upon from the outset: An extreme abuse of power being used to intimidate and subjugate the civilians. (This was also the scenario in the Kite Runner, for its fictionalized stadium stoning.)

The facts are extremely hard to come by. I have no idea where you got yours, but they are certainly plausible.




(pdq I couldn't begin to guess at how international geopolitics is really played. I was just thinking that if people were looking to solutions and prevention, that was the only theoretical start I could come up with.)