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submitted 1 year ago by SLfgb@feddit.nl to c/videos@lemmy.ml

Stella Assange speaking to the Luxembourg Parliament on the persecution of Julian Assange

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[-] SLfgb@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago

A young and talented photo-journalist, Namir Noor-Eldeen, and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, both Reuters employees, were gunned down by a US Apache on 12 July 2007 in the Al-Amin neighbourhood of eastern Baghdad, along with a number of other people on the street. Saeed was wounded and tried to crawl away, only to be shot dead along with the passer-by who stopped his van to help him. Two children in the vehicle were severely wounded. WikiLeaks revealed what really happened that day when they published the Apache footage in 2010 under the name of Collateral Murder, along with the Rules of Engagement in use at the time. Julian is charged with publishing the Iraq RoE (count 14) but not the video. This means the video won’t be shown in court as evidence. It would presumably be too embarassing to the US government to show the footage in court.

[-] fishos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Please keep posting this stuff. I haven't seen the video in years, but I can still clearly remember it. We need to not let the world forget about the atrocities committed and stop turning the issue into something else. The entire Assange saga has all been over someone embarrassing us and not about the crimes we happily committed. It's crazy that we pay more attention to him than WAR CRIMES(oh right, it's not an official "war" 🙄....)

[-] SLfgb@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I plan to.

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