The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 11月4日 01時00分

In early 2019, the journalist @lynzybilling travelled to Afghanistan to seek answers about the deaths of her mother and sister three decades earlier. A chance encounter led Billing to start investigating the Zero units, élite squads of U.S.-backed Afghan Special Forces units, who conducted hundreds of raids—many of which appeared to have relied on faulty intelligence or misidentified targets provided by America’s intelligence-gathering apparatus. “Residents in village after village told me how their homes had been swarmed by armed men who descended from helicopters while their families slept,” Billing writes. “They told me how these soldiers blew off the doors of their homes with explosives, bound the hands of family members, and, in many cases, left a trail of dead behind them—including children.”

During the course of her reporting, Billing became increasingly preoccupied with the question of what was going through the minds of the soldiers who perpetrated these nightmarish acts. How could they justify their actions, and how could the U.S. justify its support of military units that repeatedly committed such atrocities? The short film “The Night Doctrine,” by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Almudena Toral (@atoral), puts the disparate experiences of civilian and solider into a single short narrative—a deeply intimate window into one of the most tragic aspects of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan. Watch it at the link in our bio. Published in partnership with @propublica.

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