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The collateral murder video was a national scandal, people were appalled and it was fairly unique among a trove of videos and documents. Ukraine is unearthing m
by ch4s3 4y ago
The collateral murder video was a national scandal, people were appalled and it was fairly unique among a trove of videos and documents. Ukraine is unearthing mass graves on a daily basis full of mutilated civilians. The laundry list of confirmed war crimes including video is overwhelming. There’s loads of evidence of people all the way up the Russian chain of command encouraging atrocities. Moreover the conflict is less than a year old. For fuck’s sake the Russians intentionally bombarded a maternity hospital.
- DiogenesKynikos 4y agoA national scandal? There were never any consequences, except for the people who brought the video to light. The US was involved in plenty of war crimes in Iraq, such as the following documented cases: 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaradeeb_wedding_party_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaradeeb_wedding_party_massa... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah_killings_of_April_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah_killings_of_April_200... 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishaqi_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishaqi_incident The US worked with militias, such as the Wolf Brigade, that were notorious for conducting torture (in particular, it has come out that US forces passed on detainees to the Wolf Brigade for torture).[5] At the height of the war, bodies were being dumped in the open every day in Baghdad with gruesome signs of torture. 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brigade_(Iraq) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Brigade_(Iraq)