US photographer captured moment of her death in Afghanistan

[oldcynic]

Source: BBC

A photo taken by a US Army camerawoman of the moment she and four Afghans were killed in an explosion has been released by the American military.
Specialist Hilda Clayton, 22, and four Afghan National Army soldiers died when a mortar shell blew up during a training exercise on 2 July 2013.
The US Army also released a photo by an Afghan whom Spc Clayton was training in photojournalism. He was among the dead.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39798988

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War is not conducted in computer filled rooms far away. War has no mercy.

[leftynyc]

1. May she

and the Afghanis with her in death rest in peace.

[benld74]

2. Prayers to all

[tenorly]

3. God speed. Photojournalists (unlike banksters who presume to do so) really are doing God's work.

This is reminiscent of the case of Argentine photojournalist Leonardo Henrichsen, who was covering a violent right-wing coup attempt in Chile in June 1973 (three months before the infamous Pinochet coup).

As he was filming the disturbances in downtown Santiago, and despite keeping a safe distance, he was felled by a rifle shot fired by an officer a block away. The camera kept filming, and because it had a backup film chamber that said goon overlooked when he rushed over to pull the film out, the incident was captured from beginning to end.

[DK504]

11. That was a fucking execution.

That wasn't from a stray round killing him in the fog of war, they murdered him.

[tenorly]

13. And a right-wing judge in Chile let the murderer get away with it.

The shooter, Corporal Héctor Bustamante, was sued but acquitted on statute of limitations grounds (which as you know don't normally apply to a murder).

Henrichsen's survivors filed an appeal, which was heard but slow-walked for two years until Bustamante died of natural causes in 2007.

Sounds like Trump's kind of judges.

[oldcynic]

4. The Spanish Civil War...Capa

WAR HAS NO MERCY.

[Codeine]

5. The historical consensus leans to that photograph being staged. nt

[GliderGuider]

12. I didn't realize that until I went to research it just now.

I've always accepted it as a legitimate documentary photo, along the lines of the 1968 photo of the execution of a Viet Cong prisoner by Eddie Adams. Our heroes often have, if not whole feet of clay, at least a few toes of clay.

[oldcynic]

17. read the stuff related to photo but question the questioners

I knew someone who was in Lincoln Brigade and he said it was true.

[red dog 1]

6. Kick for exposure

Tragic, just tragic.

[Skittles]

7. WHY are we still in Afghanistan

WHY????????????

[Oneironaut]

8. Those exposed skulls are pretty nasty. Their faces got wrecked.

Well, the rest of them probably didn't look too good either, but this is spooky. You can also see the massive hole blown in that soldier's stomach in the second pic.

This is real war, not the cartoonish war movies we see every day. Lucky, I doubt anyone suffered there.

[riversedge]

9. I am not going to look. I hope the families have found some peace.

[DK504]

10. Once again the American military misses the point entirely.

"Clayton's death symbolises how female soldiers are increasingly exposed to hazardous situations in training and in combat on par with their male counterparts," the Army wrote in the edition."

This had nothing to do with females being on the front lines, it has to do with faulty equipment and training.

[Baconator]

14. Meh....

I've seen more green on blue deaths than American deaths by faulty equipment.

In theater at least...

[JudyM]

15. Yes, multiple deaths during a training exercise is more to the point. Though it's good that her

work, and sacrifice, is getting recognition.

[Sunlei]

16. a training exercise! what senseless loss of lives for a photo! There is NO NEED to take those risks.

[smirkymonkey]

18. What a brave woman.

RIP Hilda.