Its hidden documents show that the United States has killed thousands of civilians with drones
- After spending millions of dollars on war drone technology, US President Barack Obama announced “the most detailed air campaign in history.” However, after five years of analyzing the documents compiled by the Pentagon from 2014 to the present, Azmat Khan, a New York Times journalist, has shown that this was not the case.
Thousands of civilians trapped in war zones have been killed by the United States in the wars of Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and other countries. This is what journalist Azmat Khan has deduced in his two-episode study on The New York Times, analyzing the internal documents of the Pentagon and reports of air strikes, and interviewing dozens of survivors for five years. The first part is called The Pentagon's Hidden Records Reveal Erroneous Trends in Deadly Air Strikes, and the second part is the human cost of U.S. air wars. The reports contain numerous specific cases of fatalities since 2014, many children, and below are some of these crimes:
On July 19, 2016, at 03:00 a.m., the Special Operations Unit EE.UU. He supposedly bombed the “area where ISIS members were being formed” in Kurdistan, dependent on Syria. EE.UU. On that day, 85 warriors were murdered, but they actually bombed houses away from the battlefield, where peasants and their families were protected, fleeing bombings and gunshots. Between 56 and 212 civilians died, “incinerating entire families.”
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In early 2017, in Iraq, an American military aircraft headed for a dark-colored car at a crossroads in Mosule, in the Wadi Hajar neighborhood. They concluded the bomb was a car and they attacked him. Inside were Majid Mahmoud Ahmed, his wife and the two children, whose report is not named, citizens fleeing from a battlefield. This family and three other civilians were killed in the air strike.
In November 2015, after seeing a man dragged “an unknown heavy object” into a “defensive struggle” by ISIS, U.S. armies demolished a whole building in the city of Ramadi during an attack. According to a report received by the military, a “low-rise person”, a child, died in attack.
No investigation: impunity
The reports are made public in the face of the death of the Pentagon's civilian hiding places, with the ensuing impunity. None of these killings have been thoroughly investigated by EE.UU. and subsequently convicted. The journalist has written that in very few cases public studies were conducted, that he has not found any cases in which criminal measures have been taken against irregularities, that only a dozen citizens have paid compensation, despite the fact that many civilians who have managed to survive these attacks have needed very expensive medical care for the physical disabilities that have left them.
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