2024-09-20
29 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today, how the shadowy military justice system buries possible war crimes.
On November 19th of 2005, during the US war in Iraq, a group of US Marines killed 24 Iraqi men,
women, and and children in what would become known as the Haditha Massacre.
The Pentagon is investigating an alleged rampage by U.S.
marines in Iraq.
It all started when four Marine humvees entered Haditha.
The Marines initially reported that more than a dozen civilians were killed in a roadside bombing.
And in the crossfire that followed, but.
That was far from the truth.
It appears to have been an unprovoked attack by the Marines.
The people were killed when the Marines went into the houses and opened fire.
On them, killing women and children.
They searched unsuccessfully, apparently for insurgents.
Iraqi eyewitnesses claim the Marines simply went on a rampage.
Then President George W.
Bush spoke about the killings.
I am troubled by the initial news stories.
I am mindful that there is a thorough investigation going on.