What Happened When a Soldier Tried to Report War Crimes in Afghanistan
The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 24, 2014
Private Adam Winfield was a 21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted, with the help of his father, to alert the military to war crimes his platoon was committing. But Winfield's pleas went unheeded. Filmmaker Dan Krauss tells the story in his documentary “The Kill Team,” looks at the devastating moral tensions soldiers' are forced to cope with. “The Kill Team” opens July 25 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Elinore Bunin Munroe Film Center.
