投稿者 天地 日時 2004 年 5 月 05 日 08:47:56:IVYNMLFehyE6c

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After the fight, fury in Falluja

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3684635.stm

By Caroline Hawley
BBC correspondent in Falluja

A year ago, America was celebrating its defeat of Saddam Hussein's soldiers.

But today, those soldiers were back on the streets of Falluja - declaring victory.

The Americans have had to turn to the former Iraqi army - even wearing their old Saddam-era uniforms - and is trusting them to restore order here.

They are heading out to take up new duties in a part of town where there were ferocious battles.

In the Jolan district, people were clearing up.

We got a rare glimpse of the effect of American air strikes in a residential area. We saw many houses that had been flattened.

The only sign of fighters was in posters up on the walls.

This is the neighbourhood where fighting was fiercest - where the Americans met their stiffest resistance.

Uneven

But it was always an uneven battle, and there is fury in Falluja at what people here say was an indiscriminate use of American force.

The US military says it is careful to avoid civilian casualties and that it was acting in self-defence.

But there has been strong international criticism of what is widely seen as a disproportionate response.

Ali Hassan took us to his neighbour's house.

He told us it was hit by two rockets - bringing the roof down on the families of three brothers and killing, he says, 36 people.

The bodies of five children are still said to be under the rubble.

"Were they terrorists?" he asks.

"What did they do wrong? Women and children [died]. Is this the democracy and freedom the Americans brought us?"

A nearby football pitch has become the focus of Falluja's anger and grief. It has become a cemetery for both combatants and civilians.

Mourners paid their respects at the graves of two children - buried together, without names on the gravestones.

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