Disturbing movie about US-american warfare

Tuesday, February 3. 2004

Disturbing movie about US-american warfare

I got a rather disturbing movie showing the recordings of an Apache helicopter's nightvision camera. What you can see is an Apache shooting 3 soldiers (I don't exactly know, but these pictures seem to be from Iraq, since one of the soldiers is waving with a typical scarf) with the Apache's 30 mm chain gun. This video even shows evidences of war crimes (I marked it bold in the transcript). Here my transcript of the radio communications you can here:

[can't understand] and roger.

laser range arm. outta range. fuck. range auto. right, got all the range on it.

roger. hit it.

good.

second one. hit the other one. the truck.

right, he was moving by the truck.

hit the truck, sir? is there anybody in the truck, waitin' (?) or moving?

not seein' any.

store that, auto range store.

oh, there's a guy moving right there.

firing. hit it.

target four. we'll take the other truck.

roger. wait [can't understand] by the truck.

right there.

roger.

he's wounded.

hit it.

hittin' the truck.

the truck and him! go forward and hit it.

roger.

They were shooting at a wounded enemy soldier. War is dirty, but does it have to be so dirty that US-american soldiers have to shoot at wounded soldiers using 30 mm bullets, literally letting them explode?

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You are the idiot, my little coward who doesn't even provide an email address. Read here: http://www.globalissuesgroup.com/geneva/convention1.html

"Art. 12. Members of the armed forces and other persons mentioned in the following Article, who are wounded or sick, shall be respected and protected in all circumstances.

They shall be treated humanely and cared for by the Party to the conflict in whose power they may be, without any adverse distinction founded on sex, race, nationality, religion, political opinions, or any other similar criteria. Any attempts upon their lives, or violence to their persons, shall be strictly prohibited; in particular, they shall not be murdered or exterminated, subjected to torture or to biological experiments; they shall not wilfully be left without medical assistance and care, nor shall conditions exposing them to contagion or infection be created."

The video clearly shows that one of the persons wasn't dead but only wounded, but still he was shot dead. This is a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions.

#1 ak on 2004-08-24 12:05 (Reply)

You idiot, firing high caliber weapons on enemy targets whether they are on foot or in vehicles is not against any military law or against the Geneva Convention. If you do some research you will find out that this video is of Iraqi insurgents who were moving shoulder fired RPGs and anti aircraft missles from vehicle to vehicle. The helicopter firing on the insurgents was using its least leathal weapon in order to pacify this threat. There are no war crimes here at all! Do some research first before making idiotic comments.

#2 ... (Homepage) on 2004-08-24 11:43 (Reply)

um....the pilots were cleared on the fact that they had no idea what other weapons the wounded man had access to. For all they knew he was trying to get to another RPG to shoot them. put yourself in their spot...it's your life or theirs, don't wait to findout if it is yours

#3 Anonymous on 2004-09-04 07:42 (Reply)

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