On #HumanRightsDay, here are a mere handful of atrocities committed by the U.S. in recent memory, for which the victims still have no sight of justice. 🧵
In March 2019, U.S. drones bombed a crowd of civilians in Baghuz, Syria. The drone operators in Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar recognized the crowd of civilians but dropped the bombs anyway, killing over 70 civilians in what was the worst civilian death toll in the war against ISIS.
In 2008, a U.S. airstrike massacred at least 47 civilians, including 39 women & children, who were escorting a bride to her wedding in Haska Meyna, Afghanistan. The bride of the wedding was also killed in the strike. Weeks later, another US attack killed 90 civilians in Azizabad.
In 2005, U.S. marines went on a five-hour killing spree in the Iraqi city of Haditha, killing 24 unarmed civilians including women, the elderly and children. Some of the victims were girls aged girls aged 1, 3, 5, 10 and 14.
In 1993, months before the famous Black Hawk Down incident, U.S. forces launched an air and ground assault on a meeting of Somali elders who had gathered to discuss a peace deal. 54 civilians were killed and the tragedy is remembered in Somalia as "Black Monday".
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