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November 12, 2012

Afghan Victims Recount Massacre in Hearing for Accused U.S. Soldier 
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More than a dozen Afghan witnesses and victims testified over the
weekend as part of a hearing to determine whether U.S. Staff Sergeant
Robert Bales will face a court-martial for allegedly slaughtering 16
Afghan civilians in March. In harrowing video testimony transmitted to a
courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-Mc Chord, the witnesses, including several
children, recalled being shot at and seeing their loved ones murdered.
One young witness remembered shouting, “We are children! We are
children!” before seeing his sister get shot.

 

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