【速報】英紙「インディペンデント」がイラク民間人殺戮の証言掲載
英国の高級紙「インディペンデント」が、ファルージャでの米軍によるイラク民間人殺戮の証言を掲載した。
これは英国の世論を大きく揺り動かすかもしれない。その可能性はある。
「Witnesses say US forces killed unarmed civilians」
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=586045
Allegations of widespread abuse by US forces in Fallujah, including the killing of unarmed civilians and the targeting of a hospital in an attack, have been made by people who have escaped from the city.
They said, in interviews with The Independent, that as well as deaths from bombs and artillery shells, a large number of people including children were killed by American snipers. US forces refused repeated calls for medical aid for injured civilians, they said.
Some of the killings took place in the build―up to the assault on the rebel stronghold, and at least in one case ― that of the death of a family of seven, including a three―month baby ― the American authorities have admitted responsibility and offered compensation.
The refugees from Fallujah describe a situation of extreme violence in which remaining civilians in the city, who have been told by the Americans to leave, appeared to have been seen as complicit in the insurgency. Men of military age were particularly vulnerable. But there are accounts of children as young as four, and women and old men being killed.
（以下省略）
★この衝撃的な内容の記事をうけて、英国の世論がどう反応するのかにとりあえず注目したほうが良さそうだ。
★これだけ衝撃的な内容だと、日本のメディアも今日明日のうちに報道するのではないか？
これは英国の世論を大きく揺り動かすかもしれない。その可能性はある。
「Witnesses say US forces killed unarmed civilians」
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=586045
Allegations of widespread abuse by US forces in Fallujah, including the killing of unarmed civilians and the targeting of a hospital in an attack, have been made by people who have escaped from the city.
They said, in interviews with The Independent, that as well as deaths from bombs and artillery shells, a large number of people including children were killed by American snipers. US forces refused repeated calls for medical aid for injured civilians, they said.
Some of the killings took place in the build―up to the assault on the rebel stronghold, and at least in one case ― that of the death of a family of seven, including a three―month baby ― the American authorities have admitted responsibility and offered compensation.
The refugees from Fallujah describe a situation of extreme violence in which remaining civilians in the city, who have been told by the Americans to leave, appeared to have been seen as complicit in the insurgency. Men of military age were particularly vulnerable. But there are accounts of children as young as four, and women and old men being killed.
（以下省略）
★この衝撃的な内容の記事をうけて、英国の世論がどう反応するのかにとりあえず注目したほうが良さそうだ。
★これだけ衝撃的な内容だと、日本のメディアも今日明日のうちに報道するのではないか？