On this day in 2006 Julian #Assange created @wikileaks.
Julian is 52 now. He was 38 when WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder and was last free. The video shows the US army killing a dozen civilians, including two Reuters employees on assignment and the rescuers who stopped to help the wounded. Reuters formally attempted to obtain the video but the Pentagon refused to hand it over. The evidence of what had happened remained on US military servers until intelligence whistleblower Chelsea Manning sent it to WikiLeaks.
Collateral Murder had a massive impact. The millions of dollars that had been poured into Pentagon PR messaging couldn’t make the public unsee the war crime.
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This video of the killing of the good samaritans who stopped to save the severely injured Reuters employee Saeed Chmagh is evidence of the commission of a war crime.

The van driver’s name was Saleh Matasher Tomal, born 1964, He was 43 and a married father of four. He was driving his children to school when he stopped the van to save Saeed Chmagh. He saved his children’s lives by throwing his body over them when the helicopter opened fire. The children, Doaha (5) and Sayad (10) survived but were severely injured.
collateralmurder.wikileaks.org

Watch the full documentary Collateral Murder 10 years on here:
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Full documentary Collateral Murder 10 years on: video.emergeheart.info

When two Reuters media workers were killed in Baghdad in the Iraq war, the US military moved rapidly to hide the truth – until WikiLeaks revealed the cover-up.
By Dean Yates @DeclassifiedAus
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