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On this day in 2004: British student Tom Hurndall dies from his wounds after being shot directly in the head by an Israeli sniper for attempting to carry Palestinian children out of the line of fire
Hurndall was unarmed and wearing the internationally recognized peaceworker’s fluorescent orange jacket. He was struck down on 11 April 2003 and never regained consciousness. He died nine months later at a London hospital on 13 January 2004.
The sniper who pulled the trigger, an award-winning marksman whose rifle had telescopic sight, admitted that a policy of shooting at unarmed civilians existed at the time.
(Photos: Tom Hurndall Foundation)
Its funny how the media doesn’t want to show this
Spc. Jeremy Morlock admitted to the murder of unarmed Afghan boy Gul Mudin (depicted here). He was only 15 years old. They lined him against a wall and ordered him to stand still before they shot him. Pfc. Andrew Holmes cut off his pinky as a memento. Morlock admitted that this wasn’t the first time he murdered civilians. According to him, soldiers in his Platoon “[threw] candy out of a Stryker vehicle as they drove through a village [and shot] children who came running to pick up the sweets.” The Pentagon worked for months to get these pictures deleted and suppressed. He was recently sentenced to 24 years in prison.
Private Bradley Manning, horrified at the war crimes unfolding around him, reported them to higher authorities in his chain of command. When they told him to keep quiet about it he published the details of the crimes to the public. He is facing the death sentence. Is there something wrong here?
i can’t explain the feelings i get when i read about this story, and the many like it
I learned this in my history of American sex class and I was completely shocked. You always think of people in the past as being less progressive, but there you go.
Maybe the number one thing I learned in college is that social “progress” is not linear. The erasure of this fact is an incredibly seductive triumph of those who would want folks to 1) buy into a conservative ethos predicated entirely on imagination and 2) stop fighting for justice because “times change; it’ll happen eventually.”
History is really fucking important.
Very well said!
