User blog comment:H-Man Havoc/New Squadmate Species for ME3?/@comment-1786741-20120226042707/@comment-1900300-20120227035924

Technically they were batarian funded pirates, not strictly batarians, as we have seen numurous pirates who are batarian, human, turian, asari and salarian. The attack itself was a brainchild of a human (id prefer if he was turian to make a bit more sense). So either you blame the government who is tolariant to its people and/or the pirates, not the race. Odds are the batarians themselves dont care much about Elysium or Torfan. The use of it by Balak is just a testement to his short sightedness