Fallujah killings of April 2003
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The Fallujah killings of April 2003 began when United States Army soldiers from the American 1st Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division fired into a crowd of Iraqi civilians who were protesting their presence at a school within the city of Fallujah killing 17 protestors. Human Rights Watch, which inspected the area after the incident, found no physical evidence of shots fired at the building where U.S. forces were based.[1]
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Fallujah killings of April 2003 | |
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Part of the 2003 invasion of Iraq | |
Location | Fallujah, Iraq |
Date | April 28–30, 2003 |
Attack type | Civilian killings |
Deaths | 20 local residents |
Injured | 70+ local residents 3 U.S. Army soldiers |
Perpetrators | U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment |
Motive | Soldiers claimed to be under fire by gunman in the crowd, a claim investigated inconclusively by HRW |
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