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In the media: The brutal death of Baha Mousa

In an article for the Guardian, Orwell prize-shortlisted author Andrew Williams writes on why he felt compelled to spend years investigating the death of an Iraqi civilian in a British army base in Basra in 2003.

Andrew comments,

legally it was "interesting" but then I saw the postmortem report and photographs of Baha Mousa. I can still feel the shock. They were visceral confirmation that this wasn't just an "interesting" legal case. How could that have happened?

Investigating this question provided the shocking story behind Andrew's shortlisted book: A Very British Killing

Read the full article here

Mon 13 May 2013, 11:51 | Tags: andrew williams, writing wrongs


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