New official report by Pentagon claims that no there has been no cover-up attempt for the Baghuz disaster at work.
According to an internal US military investigation, US forces didn’t break the war regulations or conduct irresponsibly. A 2019 air strike in Syria killed several people and children, according to the study.
According to the US defense department, no one was reprimanded as a consequence of the attack, including ground troop chief. Back I n March three years ago, the attack was undertaken in assistance of Syrian partner troops who were under intense fire from ISIS troops near Baghuz.
Late in 2021, The New York Times reported that the Baghuz attack killed scores of civilians. According to the report, the overwhelming part of the casualties were minors. A legal official in Washington had also identified the strike as a probable war crime, according to the report. According to the officer, “at nearly every step, the military made moves that concealed the catastrophic strike.”
While conceding civilian deaths, the military inquiry found no evidence of a concealing effort. Instead, it accused operational inadequacies for the slow reporting of the casualties among the civilians.
According to the report, US ground troop chief received a call for an air strike. It was meant to assist Syrian Democratic Forces in their struggle against ISIS in the region. The investigation claims that the commander had no information about possible civilian presence in the region.
They subsequently discovered there were people at the scene, with four people, one mother, and three kids, dead and 15 wounded, according to the report. Meanwhile, the operation resulted in the deaths of 52 suspected terrorists and the injuries of two more. The report says among the victims of the latter group was a youngster who was deemed a warrior.
Baghuz, An Open Case
Pentagon report says among the victims of the latter group was a youngster who was deemed a warrior. “No Rules of Engagement or Law of War violations occurred,” while the full investigation is yet to be published. Furthermore, the report claims that the commander didn’t knowingly or willfully incur civilian deaths.
According to the original Times article, around 70 individuals might have been the victims of the attack in dispute. A timely examination and a thorough explanation of the reasons behind the strike may have avoided this impression.
Even still, one previous US military inspector disputed that assessment. A former assessor for the Defense Department auditor general’s office told the New York Times that he has seen military authorities working to suppress allegations.
Eugene Tate sought to investigate the Baghuz assault. Tate told the times that, “The investigation says the reporting was delayed. None of the worker bees involved believe it was delayed. We believe there was no reporting.”
The current declaration follows the Pentagon’s declaration late last year about Kabul. It then claimed that no individuals were liable for a US uav assault in Kabul that killed ten people. To make it more of a serious issue, there were seven children among the victims.
At the time, human rights advocates were concerned that the US was sending a destructive and false signal. This was due to the fact the avoiding to hold anybody responsible for the operation would make a bad precedent for such disasters.
The United States is still dealing with the offshoots of its two-decade military interventions in the Middle East. From Iraq to Syria , Yemen and Afghanistan, Washington’s legacy was no more than destruction, Famine, and more extremism. Critics expect more to come about the American footsteps in these countries.
