Assassinato Colateral from Passa Palavra on Vimeo.
This video, leaked by Wikileaks, shows the U.S. military killing dozens of civilians in the Iraq War.
In 2007, during a raid in New Baghdad, Iraq, two US military Apache helicopters mistook Reuters journalists and their equipment (cameras) with insurgents carrying AK-47 and RPG (grenade launcher).
Within minutes a group of people were brutally murdered by attack helicopters. A dozen people were murdered without showing any kind of threat. Two children were seriously injured in the attack.
The case resulted in broad repercussions, and its authenticity was confirmed by an anonymous U.S. soldier.
The site, Wikileaks, was responsible for the leak of the video.
The site proposes to make governments accountable through the public release of sensitive and confidential files. Anyone can send a file to Wikileaks. Through a strong system of encryption and anonymity, the source is preserved. Particularly notable among the leaks have been the documents referring to the Guantanamo base, data on the war on Iraq and Afghanistan, the list of members of the British Nationalist Party, and even a document from the Pentagon in 2008, describing methods and strategies to marginalize the site and legally pursue all possible sources of leaks, because at the time, Wikileaks was publishing information regarding human rights violations during the invasion of Fallujah, Iraq.
The name of the video is a derived from the military term "Collateral Damage", used in reference to non-deliberate or accidental damages.
According to an internal review of the army, the helicopters attacked insurgents, and two Reuters journalists were killed as collateral damage.
The version of the video, above, was taken from vimeo.com.br, a Brazilian site, and includes subtitles in Brazilian Portuguese.
I haven't been able to verify this, but I have heard that the person who passed this video to Wikileaks has been detained. I wouldn't be surprised if that were confirmed, of course.
