The four convicts are Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard.
The four were among 19 contractors assigned to guard a convoy of four heavily-armoured vehicles carrying US personnel.
According to the US Justice Department, at about noon that day, several of the contractors opened fire in and around Nisoor Square, a busy roundabout, adjacent to the heavily-fortified Green Zone.
When they stopped shooting, at least 14 Iraqi civilians were dead – 10 men, two women and two boys aged nine and 11.
Latten was found guilty of committing first-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2019. Following a retrial, Slough, Liberty and Heard subsequently had their sentences reduced to 15, 14 and 12 years, respectively.
BAGHDAD Faris Fadel had just one word to describe the recent pardoning by the Trump administration of four private security contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians including his brother in a public square 13 years ago: Unfair. Fadel’s brother, Osama Abbas, had been on his way to work that fateful day. He […]
President Donald Trump s decision to pardon four Blackwater military contractors has been met with criticism
Mohammad Kinani al-Razzaq, whose 9-year-old was killed, said Trump s pardon broke my life again
The men were involved in a 2007 incident in Baghdad and would later be charged in the deaths of 14 civilians
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said Trump pardoned the men to make Iraqi relations more difficult for President-elect Joe Biden
UN slams Trump s pardons for Blackwater guards jailed over Iraq killings Thu 24th December 2020 | 10:40 AM
UNITED NATIONS, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th Dec, 2020 ) :The United Nations human rights office, OHCHR, has sharply criticized US President Donald Trump s decision to pardon four security guards from the notorious private military firm Blackwater who were serving jail sentences for killing 14 civilians, including two children, in Baghdad in 2007, a massacre that sparked an international outcry over the use of mercenaries in war.
OHCHR spokesperson Marta Hurtado, said in a statement on Wednesday that pardoning the four culprits for their part in the killings that took place when they and other guards opened fire in Nisoor Square, contributes to impunity and has the effect of emboldening others to commit such crimes in the future. President Trump announced the decision to pardon the men on Tuesday. A statement from the White House said that the four, all milit
UN criticises Trump s pardons for Blackwater guards
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United Nations, Dec 24 : The UN has sharply criticised President Donald Trump s decision to pardon four former Blackwater contractors jailed over the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians.
Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard opened fire in Baghdad s Nisoor Square in 2007 while guarding an American diplomatic convoy.
The UN Human Rights Office warned that the pardons would serve to embolden others to commit similar crimes, the BBC reported on Wednesday.