And journalism’s prestigious George Polk Awards have been announced. Among the winners were Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey of The New York Times and Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker, who won for exposing Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s decades of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment. Another winner was The Intercept’s Iona Craig, who won for her exposé of a deadly Navy SEAL raid on a village in Yemen. This is Craig, talking about the raid on Democracy Now!
Iona Craig: “There were 26 people in that village who were killed. As you’ve already mentioned, many of those were women and children. That village has essentially been abandoned now, because not only—after that raid happened, not only was the entire village strafed and more than 120 livestock were killed, but the U.S. went back a month later, at the beginning of March, and bombed it for four consecutive nights, both with drone strikes and helicopter gunfire, and killed two more children and several more adults. So the last person that I spoke to who was living there, Sheikh Aziz al Ameri, he then left the village and is now living under trees several miles away.”
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