What investigating the Iraq War taught me about Gaza | Les Roberts
The Big Picture with Mohamed Hassan di Middle East Eye
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In 2004, Les Roberts smuggled himself into Iraq as his own government was in the midst of bombing and occupying the country.
His mission was to find out how many civilians had been killed in the devastating US-led invasion, because Western media was refusing to cover it.
When he published his findings in the Lancet Report, that between 100,000 and 600,000 people had been killed - it was dismissed and scorned. Years later, his estimate has been accepted as true.
Inside Iraq, Roberts witnessed the horrors of America’s indiscriminate bombing campaign, and the terror it inflicted on the people of Iraq, and Iraqi children in particular.
Today, he watches as a similar horror is unleashed on children in Gaza.
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