WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assanj rightly said that the first casualty of war is always the truth. Now after eight years of Iraq war thousands of leak documents show horrible pictures of the war.
Recent leak documents of Iraq war also show the real faces of those countries that called themselves champions of human rights. The reports reveal how torture was organised in Iraqi jails under cover of the US and its allies and how ordinary civilians paid price of Iraq war.
Raids, searches, roadside bombings, arrests, killing of innocent people at checkpoints everything happened with the approval of US high command. Now the British and US media are shedding crocodile tears after the death of only single British aid worker in Afghanistan sitting silent after killing more than 66,000 Iraqi civilians. The leaked data shows that the US has been keeping records of Iraqi deaths and injuries throughout the war.
This shows that 109,000 people died during Iraq war. Of which 66,000 or two-thirds were civilians. The recent leak of the Iraq war secret document has also become a big test for human rights organisations.
The files record horrifying tales of abuse and inhuman behaviour of occupation forces in Iraq one pregnant woman was shot dead at a checkpoint. Private security guards belonging to notorious Black Water killed innocent people throughout the Iraq war. Iraqi prison guards used electric drills to torture prisoners. As a result, several prisoners died in jails.
KHAWAJA UMER FAROOQ
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