Haditha massacre

When

19 Nov 2005

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

24

Coordinates

34.14° N, 42.38° E

Description

incident in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of US Marines

Killings committed by U.S. marines in 2005

The Haditha massacre was a series of killings on November 19, 2005, in which a group of United States Marines killed 25 unarmed Iraqi civilians. It occurred in the city of Haditha in Iraq's western province of Al Anbar. Among the dead were men, women, elderly people and children as young as one year old, who were shot multiple times at close range.

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