The New York Times, a leading U.S. newspaper, said that information has been hidden inside the U.S. military despite killing 80 people, including children and women, in a 2019 air bombing in eastern Syria. I told you.
The New York Times reported on the 13th as an article based on months of interviews with stakeholders and analysis of confidential documents.
According to the report, the U.S. military carried out air strikes by fighters near the eastern village of Bugs in March, when the sweeping operation against the militant group IS = Islamic State in Syria was at its final stage.
The airstrike killed 80 people, including children and women on the riverside.
The airstrikes were carried out without warning based on information from the U.S. Army special forces responsible for ground operations, and among the personnel who were monitoring the same place with unmanned aerial vehicles at that time, "to a large number of women and children The bomb was dropped, "said the surprise.
After the airstrike, there was an opinion inside the army that it could be a war crime, but it was concealed as "it was a legitimate defense" and was not reported to the top of the army. increase.
In addition, when the New York Times showed the results of the interview to the U.S. Central Command, after admitting that 80 people were killed in the air bombing, 16 of them were combatants, 4 were civilians, and the remaining 60 It seems that criticism will be gathered for the response of the US military because people answered that they do not know whether they are civilians or not.