The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on 'The Highway of Death'
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The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on 'The Highway of Death' - 7 April, 2003 - News
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This report was made on May 11th, 1991, at a session of the New York committee for investigating war crimes.
I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions.
U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot. The horror is still there to see....