Six children aged betwixt xv months in addition to xiii years were killed on v September 2017, when a Coalition air strike hitting their habitation inwards the town of Raqqa inwards Syria. The children were merely vi of the hundreds of civilians killed yesteryear the US-led Coalition's armed forces get to oust Islamic State inwards Raqqa. Amnesty International has carried out extensive investigations on the lay down inwards Raqqa in addition to carried out crowdsourced remote analysis to break the terms of the Coalition's armed forces campaign. War inwards Raqqa allows y'all to explore the results of this investigation into the civilian deaths inwards Raqqa, which were the outcome of the Coalition airstrikes on the metropolis fired betwixt June in addition to Oct 2017.
Amnesty International's analysis includes an interactive map showing the locations inwards Raqqa of civilian casualties from Coalition strikes. On the map dark circles are used to demo verified casualties in addition to the greyness markers break the locations of casualties amongst 'credible reports'. If y'all direct a mark on the map y'all tin sentiment details of the selected airstrike in addition to its resulting casualties. These details include photos of the victims (where available) in addition to earlier & afterward satellite imagery of the place hitting yesteryear the coalition airstrike.
In companionship to decide when in addition to where buildings were destroyed inwards Raqqa Amnesty International crowdsourced the analysis of satellite imagery of the city. Volunteers were asked to evidence a timeline of satellite images to pinpoint the dates of a building's destruction. You tin read to a greater extent than most this crowdsourced investigation on the project's Strike Tracker website.
