Sunday, April 11, 2010

Take a Leak.



I recently heard of wikileak.org, an organization which is "A place for journalists, truth tellers, and whistle blowers to leak (publish) personal accounts and evidence of injustice or illegal activity completely anonymously, ..."

Now what made this website so interesting was that it had obtained a decrypted video of the slaying of 12 dozen Iraqi civilians by a U.S air support. 2 Reuters reporters were also killed on the scene. The video is a lengthy one but it is well worth the time to check out. I do warn you that it is a bit graphic. It seems the chopper gunner is having a field day going to town on the civilians with his 50 caliber bullets.

I have always known that in a war there will always be civilian casualties but i am lost for words after seeing the video myself. Normally i write quite lengthy blogs but can't find the right mindset to continue to write this blog.

One point i must bring up though is that at some part of the video you will see that the air support continues to shoot at the people who are down. According to the Geneva convention for the rules of engagement i have found that once a perceived target is down and can no longer fight he is no longer a target and is protected by the Geneva convention. The person must then be provided with the proper medical care and be treated humanely. Before i say anything judgmental i must stop myself. It is up to you to decide for yourself what is right or wrong and whether the actions were justified and on top of everything necessary.

Wikileaks needs donations to continue running so if you have a bunch of dollars lying around try to donate to them but it's no pressure for broke college students to try to keep them running ok.


i wish i had more things that were funny to say and put one or two insensitive comments to make light of the situation but i really can't but for the sake of the booze blog tradition i leave you with this:

"Confucius he say: War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left".

peace,
boo

1 comment:

  1. I have known that a war always brings scourges. I got the ideas from hearing or reading experience of wars, movies, and news when I was a child. These pictures were not realistic for me. Media enable to report more timely and world wide now a days. The video freaks me out, and I had a terrible feeling for what was really happened at Iraq. The video did not make dramatically like war movies, but showed looming threat of war.

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