Whistleblower website- Wikileaks published United States military reports from Afghanistan today claiming that 76,000 military and diplomatic reports were filed between 2004 and January of this year. The reports contain "evidence of war crimes," claimed the man who published them. Wikileaks claimed that it is in possession of another 15,000 documents which it will publish after editing out names to protect people, said the founder of the website Julian Assange.
Assange added that the first-hand accounts are own raw data of the US military on the war and it also includes the number of people who were killed or injured. "This material does not leave anyone smelling like roses, especially the Taliban,” said Wikileaks founder.
The leaked documents comprise "the total history of the Afghan war from 2004 to 2010, with some important exceptions -- U.S. Special Forces, CIA activity, and most of the activity of other non-U.S. groups," Assange said.
The Wikileak founder said that the documents published today revealed the "squalor" of war. “The significance lies in all of these people being killed in the small events that we haven't heard about that numerically eclipse the big casualty events. It's the boy killed by a shell that missed a target," Assange told CNN before the reports were published.
"What we haven't seen previously is all those individual deaths. We've seen just the number and, like Stalin said, 'One man's death is a tragedy, a million dead is a statistic.' So, we've seen the statistic," he added. Meanwhile, CNN has not confirmed the authenticity of the Wikileaks documents.
