On Tuesday, May 30 Truthout published my article “Countles My Lai Massacres in Iraq.”
Here are a couple of recent pieces of information to augment that story.
Today the AP has just released this story:
2 Iraqi women killed by coalition troops
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Civilian Slaughter Update
Countless My Lai Massacres in Iraq
The media feeding frenzy around what has been referred to as “Iraq’s My Lai” has become frenetic. Focus on US Marines slaughtering at least 20 civilians in Haditha last November is reminiscent of the media spasm around the “scandal” of Abu Ghraib during April and May 2004.
Yet just like Abu Ghraib, while the media spotlight shines squarely on the Haditha massacre, countless atrocities continue daily, conveniently out of the awareness of the general public. Torture did not stop simply because the media finally decided, albeit in horribly belated fashion, to cover the story, and the daily slaughter of Iraqi civilians by US forces and US-backed Iraqi “security” forces has not stopped either.
