A new report from Amnesty International has warned that some of the people US airstrikes in Somalia are killing are civilians, and that the US may have committed war crimes in the course of this escalating campaign.
The Pentagon has quickly denied this, as they often do, saying that they have their own assessments that prove no civilians were killed or injured. They did, however, insist those assessments are “not available to nonmilitary organizations.”
Which means effectively that US African Command (AFRICOM) is relying on secret evidence to exonerate themselves of a crime they almost certainly committed, and offering not even nominal attempts at transparency.
This is only going to be a growing problem, as US strikes in Somalia are happening at an alarming rate lately, and at times AFRICOM has even temporarily announced that they were going to stop providing casualty figures on Somalia altogether, suggesting that what the US is doing is largely meant to remain secret, covered one strike at a time as the Pentagon claims them, if then.
Drunk pulled over for swerving tells cop he only had “2 beers”….
And then telling the cop that the assessment of his condition would be made available to only those of the driver’s choosing.
There were no civilians killed but they won’t make those assessments “available to nonmilitary organizations”. How can anyone have a problem with that?
Makes perfect sense, don’t it (if one is psycho).
If the Pentagon denies it then it must be true.
The bodies keep piling up in America’s international war on women and children.