Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre

Sigfrido Ranucci, Maurizio Torrealta
2005. Italy, United States of America. vo English. 27’

There can be no witnesses to this war. There can be no witnesses because it is based on lies. The only journalists that the Americans allow in Fallujah are embedded with their troops. In spite of this, images such as the one of a marine shooting a wounded, unarmed fighter inside the Mosque at Fallujah have been beamed out to the world. And precisely because these images have gone out, although nobody knows how, and circulated all over the world, the NBC journalist that captured them was immediately expelled from the ranks of embedded journalists. Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre is a documentary by Sigfrido Ranucci and Maurizio Torrealta which first aired on Italy's RAI state television network on November 8, 2005. It testifies to the use of weapons that the film claims are chemical weapons, in particular incendiary bombs, and alleges indiscriminate use of violence against civilians and children by United States of America military forces in the city of Fallujah in Iraq during the November 2004 Fallujah Offensive.