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Ben Walsby
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Lebanon
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Amnesty International Middle East Researcher, based in Beirut
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AmnestyInternational
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Our researchers @DRovera & @benwalsby visited 42 coalition air strike sites across the ruined city of #Raqqa, #Syria & interviewed 112 civilian residents who had survived the carnage & lost loved ones. This is what they heard. Our latest report → raqqa-syria.amnesty.org pic.twitter.com/oE3kYf3v0v
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Laurie Hanna
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The remains of Raqqa after a 'war of annihilation' against Islamic State
Hundreds of trapped civilians were killed in the bombardment, details in a new @Amnesty report out next Tuesday
Contact [email protected] for embargoed copies pic.twitter.com/78wwJ6boT3
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Conor Fortune
@WritesRights
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Here's what's left of Raqqa after the US-led coalition pledged a "war of annihilation" against Islamic State.
Hundreds of trapped civilians were killed in the bombardment, @amnesty field investigations found.
New report out 5 June - [email protected] for embargoed copies pic.twitter.com/lJ2AKrnWb5
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Conor Fortune
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Conor Fortune
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There are human rights & legal implications of under-reporting civilian casualties in conflict. Lack of solid #civcas reporting post-strikes feeds a vicious circle of underestimating civcas when planning later strikes - via @rgoodlaw in @just_security: justsecurity.org/55397/legal-im…
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Conor Fortune
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As of 26 April, @CJTFOIR had admitted to 883 civilian casualties in Iraq & Syria since 2014. The UK MoD has consistently claimed they have been responsible for precisely zero of these. This is pure fantasy. twitter.com/airwars/status…
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Conor Fortune
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When @amnesty raised concerns about @CJTFOIR civilian casualties in Mosul, British Army General Rupert Jones, called us “disrespectful” and claimed that we “have no understanding of the brutality of warfare”. His own colleagues are now echoing our findings twitter.com/BBCNews/status…
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Ben Walsby
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So it took a week to pick and strike targets after Douma... If only the civilians of Raqqa had merited such meticulous planning. Was that because the world wasn’t watching? Well we were - new Amnesty report on the lengths not taken to protect civilians in Raqqa coming soon.
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Ben Walsby
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Australia would consider compensating civilian victims of Mosul strike it investigated and admitted thanks to @AmnestyIraq research. Will the US, UK and France grow up and do the same? @amnestyusa, @AmnestyUK, @amnestyfrance twitter.com/telester/statu…
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Tim Lester
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The young Iraqi man who told @Amnesty investigators he lost two loved ones in an air strike, now knows it was likely an Australian fired missile that hit his family's home. @benwalsby tells #7news of the phone call to inform him - and how he responded. pic.twitter.com/CPavAVApmC
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Tim Lester
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The #Mosul man who escaped an Australian Hornet attack by seconds, but lost his brother and sister in law, says 'leave my family and me, be'. @Amnesty has contacted the man, but did not raise the 'compensation' issue directly. Here's part of coverage from #7news with @benwalsby pic.twitter.com/LJsgihSxYg
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Ben Walsby
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@CJTFOIR needs to take a leaf out of the ADF’s book. Civilian casualties in Mosul and Raqqa are not going to go away. States responsible should engage with reality sooner rather than later. The longer this is brushed off the worse it will be – for victims and perpetrators alike.
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Ben Walsby
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As @airwars noted, "It turned out it was the Coalition which needed to further investigate, and in the case of the May 3rd strike, both the alliance and the Australian Defence Force have now accepted responsibility." airwars.org/news/australia…
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Ben Walsby
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@CJTFOIR has not reacted well to AI's research suggesting it killed civilians. Former Coalition Commander Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend "challenge(d) the people from Amnesty International... to first research their facts and make sure they are speaking from a position of authority,”
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Ben Walsby
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For example, the UK DoD @DefenceHQ continues to fly in the face of logic, maintaining it killed not a single civilian in Iraq/Syria despite carrying out an estimated 3,400 airstrikes. The French @Defense_gouv also bombed and says the same middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive…
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Ben Walsby
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The Coaltion @CJTFOIR now accepts its strikes have killed 855 civilians since the start of operations in 2014 – a 10th of the figure estimated to have died in Mosul alone. Individual Coalition states, meanwhile, have not assessed their culpability as Australia has in this case.
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Ben Walsby
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Hats off to the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) for investigating and accepting responsibility for airstrikes in Mosul which killed civilians in May 2017. It begs the question why others can’t do the same? theguardian.com/australia-news…
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Airwars
@airwars
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Of 6 cases newly classed as Credible by Coalition, one only came to light thanks to @amnesty and @airwars. Survivors of a May 2017 Mosul strike told Amnesty researchers 2 adults were killed and 2 children injured. The Airwars case study for the event was then assessed by @CJTFOIR pic.twitter.com/PjRNIgXfNW
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Ben Walsby
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15 years without accountability only led to more conflict. It’s time, on this 15 year anniversary of the invasion, to give accountability a chance – or Iraqi civilians could be paying the price again another 15 years from now @amnestypress @amnestyusa @aiuk @amnestyfrance
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Ben Walsby
@benwalsby
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If – as the Coalition (@CJTFOIR) maintains – it could drop munitions upon Iraqi/Syrian cities at low cost to civilian life, then it should release accurate information about the strike locations and bombs dropped. This would allow investigations and prove it has nothing to hide
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