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The My Lai massacre (/ m iː l aɪ / MEE LY; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1]
In 13 separate incidents Donaldson was alleged to have flown over civilian areas shooting at civilians. He was the first U.S. general charged with war crimes since General Jacob H. Smith in 1902 and the highest ranking American to be accused of war crimes during the Vietnam War. [128] The charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.
Pages in category "Vietnam War crimes committed by the United States" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
(Reuters) - William Calley, who during the Vietnam War led his U.S. Army platoon into the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai and carried out one of the worst war crimes in American military history, has ...
The massacre and its legal implications were written about by Professor Gary D. Solis, a Marine Corps veteran and law professor at Georgetown University in the book Son Thang: An American War Crime. In 1977, at the urging of Future Secretary of the Navy James Webb , the Marine Corps platoon commander and company commander in the Son Thang area ...
Land reform in North Vietnam: 1953–1956 North Vietnam [6] Communist government of North Vietnam under orders from Ho Chi Minh: Quỳnh Lưu uprising: November 2–14, 1956 North Vietnam: 1022 killed People's Army of Vietnam: Châu Đốc massacre: July 11, 1957 Châu Đốc in An Giang Province, South Vietnam 17 Anti-government insurgents
In the case of Korean War is also controversial that the United States committed a genocide [10] or just war crimes, therefore the list is not including: No Gun Ri massacre. [11] [12] [13] During the Vietnam War it has been considered that part of the war strategy of the United States in Vietnam was an ecocide. [14] [15]
In November 1969, after the My Lai massacre was revealed in the U.S. press, the Bertrand Russell Foundation, with antiwar activists Jeremy Rifkin and lawyer Tod Ensign, organized the Citizens Commission of Inquiry (CCI) in the United States to document American war crimes in Vietnam. The CCI, held their first inquiry in February 1970 in ...