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Had you seen the video at that point? No. Look at 04:50 onwards. It was obvious there was no RPG, the group of men started dispersing, yet they started shootin
by dsplittgerber 17y ago
Had you seen the video at that point? No.
Look at 04:50 onwards. It was obvious there was no RPG, the group of men started dispersing, yet they started shooting and kept shooting.
Edit: Look at 10:15. They just killed people who were trying to rescue one wounded guy. No weapons to be seen anywhere.
- iaskwhy 17y agoAt 3:45 and until 4:25 everything is kinda suspect. It really looks like at least one guy is carrying a big weapon (could be an AK like they say or even some launcher) and by 4:09 one of them kneels at the end of the building with something in his hands then he quickly gets up, turns arounds and it seems like he's shooting something (I'd say he was trying to take a picture but that's not clear at all). I believe the war was wrong, etc, but I can understand why the army was so alerted by this. I'm not shocked by it (until the van arrives, what happens next is not easy to explain, maybe that move happens a lot?) and while I'm completely against it, I also understand that this can happen sometimes. To call this a murder is a much simpler version of what happened there.
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- scott_s 17y agoPlease read the forum guidelines on civility: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This discussion will be killed if it devolves into name calling.
- Zak 17y agoI think it's fair to call firing on the van murder. The people in the van were pretty obviously trying to remove the dead and help the wounded. They did not appear to be armed, though it's certainly possible to conceal weapons in a van. They were clearly not taking any aggressive action.