Minab’s Children Were Buried Beneath Washington’s Silence
When Murtaza Hussain and his colleagues at Drop Site News began investigating the destruction of Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, they were confronting two silences. The first belonged to the US government. Months after American-made missiles struck the school and surrounding district on the opening day of the war, the Pentagon had not released the findings of its promised investigation. The
second belonged to much of the Western press, which had largely treated the deaths as a question of targeting systems, military procedure and possible error. Drop Site chose another starting point: the children, their families, their teachers and the people who pulled bodies from the rubble. “Our story is very much focused on the people of Minab and the victims of the attack,” Hussain told The
Piaz in a new interview. “In the Western establishment media, they treat it more as a US military story. Maybe the military made a mistake, or it was a technical detail. They treat the human impact as a fact, but not something that is the focus of their coverage.” Murtaza Hussain of Drop Site News in conversation with The Piaz. Image: The Piaz interview. Watch the full interview with Murtaza
Hussain of Drop Site News. Watch Drop Site’s documentary Watch Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave , the documentary by Drop Site News. The resulting investigation, “Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave,” was reported by Jeremy Scahill, Murtaza Hussain and Reza Sayah. It is built from months of interviews with survivors, parents, local residents, first responders,