From Within the Darkish: What Occurred That Day in Haditha?

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This program is drawn from a brand new season of the award-winning investigative podcast Within the Darkish. On a November day in 2005, within the metropolis of Haditha, Iraq, one thing horrible occurred. “Relying on whose story you believed, the killings have been a conflict crime, a homicide,” the lead reporter Madeleine Baran says. “Or they have been a reliable fight motion and the victims have been collateral harm. Or the killings have been a tragic mistake, unintentional—unhappy, however not prison. Principally, the one factor that everybody may agree on was that twenty-four individuals had died, and it was Marines who’d killed them.” Season 3 of Within the Darkish appears at what occurred that day in Haditha, and why nobody was held accountable for the killings. Baran and her group travelled to twenty-one states and three continents over the course of 4 years to report on a narrative that the world had largely forgotten. Episode 1 airs this week on The New Yorker Radio Hour, and you may take heed to the remainder of the sequence wherever you get your podcasts.

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