Turkish autopsies reveal aid workers shot from behind
Turkish autopsies reveal aid activists shot from behind:
On Friday, the Turkish Council of Forensic Medicine released preliminary autopsy results for the nine Turkish men killed in the Israeli raid of the Mavi Marmara. The findings have generated almost as much controversy as has Israel’s actions. The results show five of the dead were shot in the back of the head or in the back, reported the Guardian. They were all shot at close range, and most were shot multiple times, with 30 bullets found in the bodies of the nine men. A British citizen who witnessed the raid first hand told the Guardian Israel appeared to have a ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy.
The British government’s response to this has been muted, perhaps because of the behaviour of British police in the case of Jean Charles de Menezes.
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