In 2005, photos of the massacre of American soldiers in Hadisa appeared in Iraq
On November 19, 2005, an attack was made on a car carrying US soldiers in Hadisa, Iraq . Enraged by this, the American military stormed nearby houses and massacred 24 civilians, including women and children. 24 years later, photos showing this situation were revealed.
In 2005, photos of the massacre in Hadisa, Iraq, in which American soldiers killed 24 civilians, including women and children, were released. It turned out that these photos were taken by the US Army and are preserved to this day.
The American New Yorker magazine filed a lawsuit against the US military based on these photos, and the photos were made public for the first time as part of this case.
According to the report of the magazine, on November 19, 2005, an attack was made on a car carrying American soldiers in the city of Hadisa, and US soldiers entered houses in this area and massacred 24 civilians.
Accordingly, in the massacre, the US soldiers killed a total of 24 civilians, the youngest of whom was a 3-year-old girl and the oldest was a 76-year-old man. The bodies were numbered and photographed within minutes.
The American New Yorker magazine, together with the families of those who died in the massacre, filed a lawsuit against the US military demanding the release of the photos, which had been withheld from the public for years, after about a period of time. After 4 years, the army was forced to hand over these photos to the magazine.
Photos of the bloody carnage
In one of the photos published by the magazine, a 5-year-old girl named Z aynab Yunus Salim was shot in the head and "11" was written on her back by American soldiers.
In another shot, a woman identified as Ayda Yasin Ahmed is lying on a bed covered in blood with the bodies of her children. The names of the victims in the photo are Saba (10), O ysh a (3), Zainab (5), Muhammed (8) and Aida.
In another shot, the number "12" was written on the cheek of American soldiers after the youngest victim, 3-year-old Aysha Yunus Salim, was shot dead.
Another shot shows the bodies of 5 civilians who were surrounded and killed by US soldiers on their way to the university.
According to the magazine, an 11-year-old boy named Safa, who was hiding in the corner next to the bed during the massacre, survived.
According to investigative documents related to the massacre , Corporal Stephen Tatum, one of the perpetrators of the incident, told investigators that before the shooting began, he noticed that the people in the room were women and children , and even knowing that they were children, he continued to shoot at them .
None of the soldiers who participated in the massacre were punished. One of the commanders at that time, James Mattis, who later became the US Secretary of Defense, wrote a letter full of praise to one of the perpetrators of the massacre, stating that the soldiers involved in the incident were "innocent".
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