yacek1
12.02.05, 06:19
dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000196.php#more
Just fragments!!!!!!!!!
“One story is of a young girl who is 16 years old,” he says of one of the
testimonies he video taped recently, “She stayed for three days with the
bodies of her family who were killed in their home. When the soldiers entered
she was in her home with her father, mother, 12 year-old brother and two
sisters. She watched the soldiers enter and shoot her mother and father
directly, without saying anything.”
The girl managed to hide behind the refrigerator with her brother and
witnessed the war crimes first-hand.
“They beat her two sisters, then shot them in the head,” he said. After this
her brother was enraged and ran at the soldiers while shouting at them, so
they shot him dead.
“She continued hiding after the soldiers left and stayed with her sisters
because they were bleeding, but still alive. She was too afraid to call for
help because she feared the soldiers would come back and kill her as well. She
stayed for three days, with no water and no food. Eventually one of the
American snipers saw her and took her to the hospital,” he added before
reminding me again that he had all of her testimony documented on film.
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“During the second week of the siege they entered and announced that all the
families have to leave their homes and meet at an intersection in the street
while carrying a white flag. They gave them 72 hours to leave and after that
they would be considered an enemy,” he says.
“We documented this story with video-a family of 12, including a relative and
his oldest child who was 7 years old. They heard this instruction, so they
left with all their food and money they could carry, and white flags. When
they reached the intersection where the families were accumulating, they heard
someone shouting ‘Now!’ in English, and shooting started everywhere.”
The family was all carrying white flags, as instructed, according to the young
man who gave his testimony. Yet he watched his mother and father shot by
snipers-his mother in the head and his father shot in the heart. His two aunts
were shot, then his brother was shot in the neck. The man stated that when he
raised himself from the ground to shout for help, he was shot in the side.
“After some hours he raised his arm for help and they shot his arm,” continues
the doctor, “So after awhile he raised his hand and they shot his hand.”
A six year-old boy of the family was standing over the bodies of his parents,
crying, and he too was then shot.