The video shows three men - said to be described as insurgents, but not visibly armed - being shot by exploding rounds while climbing a hill above village Khak Khuday Dad.
Another clip from earlier showed two men were visibly carrying weapons - a rifle and a rocket propelled grenade launcher - when emerging from a building that is said to have included a woman.
The building was the home of an insurgent being targeted by the NZDF which claimed it was a weapons cache, Hager said.
Hager asserted the presence of a woman seen leaving the building showed it was a home to unarmed civilians.
The first is simply murder. As for the second, NZDF's rules of enagement are clear that merely carrying a weapon is not proof that someone is directly participating in hostilities. US-style policies which classify all "military-aged males" as "hostile insurgents" to be murdered are neither legally nor morally acceptable.
And then there's this bit:
Among the release was a report by US 'initial assessment team" that found a video taken by an Apache helicopter had been altered to remove 12-seconds of audio, in which the presence of a woman among a huddled group 200 metres in front of the ground patrol is relayed to the New Zealand officers.
He said the Defence Force had not admitted the existence of this inquiry.
I guess this is what NZDF wanted to hide: evidence that there has already been a coverup, and that they knew they were attacking civilians.