Left to us, We’d give the Nobel Prize to WikiLeaks, Run by the Rollicking Sunshine Press, For their Astounding Efforts... This one’s for them!
“At 5pm EST, Friday, 22nd October, 2010, WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports (‘The Iraq War Logs’) document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army.” These would be the first two lines that would greet you when you reach the WikiLeaks official website – assuming that your government hasn’t blocked the site already. There are no two views about what we are going to assert – there has been no other media organisation in history that has ensured a bigger expose of multiple government scandals/cover-ups/human rights’ violations/murders/assassinations/war crimes!
Leave the legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (who uncovered the Watergate Scandal, which led to then US President Nixon’s resignation, public humiliation, conviction... and subsequent politically-manipulated pardon by Nixon’s successor President Gerald Ford), the capricious WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has single-handedly redefined the levels of commitment that global media can and should have towards social betterment.
While some believe WikiLeaks has slipped into fame purely because of a one-trick-pony war document leak in 2010, the fact of the matter is that they’ve been rocking the expose universe since the past half a decade (remember Guantanamo Bay?), and now hold over 1.2 million documents that are so damningly authenticated by Assange’s army that even the US government has been forced to run up the “This is a national security risk” hyperbole than deny it.
Compilations of 4,00,000 documents on the Iraq War (called the Iraq War Logs) and 76,900 documents on Afghan War (called Afghan War Diary) reveal the shocking extent of government grime.
WikiLeaks writes, “The [Iraq] reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 ‘civilians’; 23,984 ‘enemy’ (those labelled as insurgents); 15,196 ‘host nation’ (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 ‘friendly’ (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths. That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period.” This is apart from the 180,000 individuals who were arrested during the Iraq War on various charges that were never proven, and 15,000 others who were buried without being identified. In a similar manner, the Afghan War Diaries of WikiLeaks, documents the death of around 20,000 people.
Leave the legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (who uncovered the Watergate Scandal, which led to then US President Nixon’s resignation, public humiliation, conviction... and subsequent politically-manipulated pardon by Nixon’s successor President Gerald Ford), the capricious WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has single-handedly redefined the levels of commitment that global media can and should have towards social betterment.
While some believe WikiLeaks has slipped into fame purely because of a one-trick-pony war document leak in 2010, the fact of the matter is that they’ve been rocking the expose universe since the past half a decade (remember Guantanamo Bay?), and now hold over 1.2 million documents that are so damningly authenticated by Assange’s army that even the US government has been forced to run up the “This is a national security risk” hyperbole than deny it.
Compilations of 4,00,000 documents on the Iraq War (called the Iraq War Logs) and 76,900 documents on Afghan War (called Afghan War Diary) reveal the shocking extent of government grime.
WikiLeaks writes, “The [Iraq] reports detail 109,032 deaths in Iraq, comprised of 66,081 ‘civilians’; 23,984 ‘enemy’ (those labelled as insurgents); 15,196 ‘host nation’ (Iraqi government forces) and 3,771 ‘friendly’ (coalition forces). The majority of the deaths (66,000, over 60%) of these are civilian deaths. That is 31 civilians dying every day during the six year period.” This is apart from the 180,000 individuals who were arrested during the Iraq War on various charges that were never proven, and 15,000 others who were buried without being identified. In a similar manner, the Afghan War Diaries of WikiLeaks, documents the death of around 20,000 people.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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