In latest monthly report, US-led Coalition admits 1 new civilian harm event - and rejects 46 cases.
@CJTFOIR also abandons its previous estimate of 70 civilians killed at Hawijah in 2015 - and now claims it "cannot confirm the number of casualties through our assessment process"
@CJTFOIR also abandons its previous estimate of 70 civilians killed at Hawijah in 2015 - and now claims it "cannot confirm the number of casualties through our assessment process"
@CJTFOIR @CENTCOM @OIRSpox Those 70 deaths are also highly likely to have been among 80 non-US deaths from Coalition actions in Iraq and Syria officially admitted by @CENTCOM in spring 2017 - which to this day no allies have publicly claimed. airwars.org/news-and-inves…
@CJTFOIR @CENTCOM @OIRSpox As far as Airwars can tell, those 80 non-US deaths remain included in the @Coalition's overall estimate of civilian deaths from its actions [now at least 1,347].
So while @CJTFOIR says it can no longer estimate harm at Hawijah, those 70 deaths may still be officially included.
So while @CJTFOIR says it can no longer estimate harm at Hawijah, those 70 deaths may still be officially included.
@CJTFOIR @CENTCOM @OIRSpox @coalition Meanwhile, Dutch journalists, politicians and lawyers are themselves compiling lists of the dead at Hawijah.
@SadetKarabulut was recently told eg of 62 dead, including 36 children and 13 women, 822 wounded, and 70 houses and 375 cars destroyed. nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/11…
@SadetKarabulut was recently told eg of 62 dead, including 36 children and 13 women, 822 wounded, and 70 houses and 375 cars destroyed. nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/11…
@CJTFOIR @CENTCOM @OIRSpox @coalition @SadetKarabulut Remarkably, more than four and a half years after this strike neither the Dutch defence ministry nor @CJTFOIR has ever conducted its own investigations into casualty numbers at Hawijah.
There has however been been consensus - until today - that supported credible local reports.
There has however been been consensus - until today - that supported credible local reports.
@CJTFOIR @CENTCOM @OIRSpox @coalition @SadetKarabulut Concern must be that under pressure from an ally, the Coalition has now discarded its original estimate of 70 civilians killed as a result of a Dutch strike in 2015.
The solution? @CENTCOM must urgently publish its own investigation into Hawijah, which concluded January 2016.
The solution? @CENTCOM must urgently publish its own investigation into Hawijah, which concluded January 2016.
@CJTFOIR @CENTCOM @OIRSpox @coalition @SadetKarabulut UPDATE: The Pentagon's own classified internal review of civilian casualties - conducted last year by @NDU_EDU - also included 70 deaths at Hawijah reports @keesversteegh
