Last night’s UK Channel 4 Dispatches<\/a> was entitled Iraq’s Secret War Files<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I tried to watch it. A few minutes in, I had to switch off. There’s only so much harrowing you can take on a work night. And the few minutes I saw were too harrowing….. A crying child drenched in the blood of the two adults who had been shot in the front seat of a car with 5 children in the back.<\/p>\n

The Dispatches web page for this programme starts with:<\/p>\n

…exposes the full and unreported horror of the Iraqi conflict and its aftermath, revealing the true scale of civilian casualties; and allegations that after the scandal of Abu Ghraib, American soldiers continued to abuse prisoners; and that US forces did not systematically intervene in the torture and murder of detainees by the Iraqi security services. The programme also features previously unreported material of insurgents being killed while trying to surrender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t even begin to list the catalogue of horrors that follow on the rest of the page, let alone in the programme. <\/p>\n

As I said, I had to turn away from the programme. (And watch the more relaxing repeat of Jim Al-Khalili’s Atom<\/strong> on BBC4.)<\/p>\n

So, total respect to those people who don’t just turn away. Who don’t feel it’s like knocking your head repeatedly against concrete to keep speaking up about outrages. Because someone has to have the courage to keep on doing it<\/p>\n

Like wikileaks<\/a>. If ever there would be a well-earned Nobel prize, that would be one given to wikileaks and – even more so – to those people who put the good of humanity before their own fear of arrest and provided the information.<\/p>\n

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