Hawija

Colonel aviator Peter Tankink and Dutch Defense Minister Ank Bijleveld hold a press conference in The Hague on November 2019, about the deadly attack by a Dutch F-16 on Hawija, Iraq, in 2015.

Hawija: from remote warfare to distant justice

18 November 2022 by Asymmetrical Haircuts

This was only one of its 35 thousands missions. When the Dutch Air Force hit the Iraqi city of Hawija in 2015 as part of the war against Islamic State, it killed 70 civilians. But the impact, in a chain, to the health, to educatio [...]