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LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 – July 19, 2005) was a soldier in the United States Army who was found dead in a tent in Iraq. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led her family to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.
Human Statue of Liberty, created by Mole and Thomas using 18,000 officers and enlisted men at Camp Dodge near Des Moines, Iowa, 1918, during World War I. Camp Dodge is a military installation in the city of Johnston, Iowa. Centrally located near the capital of Iowa, it currently serves as the headquarters of the Iowa National Guard.
[3] [4] A few months later, the fifth victim, also a former dealer, was murdered on November 4. [5] The killings all occurred in unincorporated woodland outside of Mason City. [3] Although Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965, the crime was a federal case since it involved a continuing criminal enterprise.
Taken by Force, by J. Robert Lilly, (ISBN 0-230-50647-X) published by Palgrave Macmillan in August 2007, discusses crimes of sexual violence committed by American soldiers in the Second World War. It contains numerous references to military capital cases during this period.
During the Philippine–American War (1899–1913), numerous war crimes were committed by the U.S. military against Filipino civilians. American soldiers and other witnesses sent letters home which described some of these atrocities; for example, In 1902, the Manila correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger wrote:
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
14 settlers were killed by an Indian war party in Stockport, Morgan County, Ohio. 14 (settlers) 1791: November 4: Fort Recovery Massacre: Ohio: At present day Fort Recovery, Ohio, an army of 1,500 Americans led by Arthur St. Clair, was ambushed by an army of Miami Indians led by chief Little Turtle. 200 to 250 civilians were killed. 200–250 ...
War crime (200 to 600 killed) Kataeb Party: On December 6, 1975, Black Saturday was a series of massacres and armed clashes in Beirut, that occurred in the first stages of the Lebanese Civil War. Karantina massacre: War crime (Estimated 1,000 to 1,500 killed) Kataeb Party, Guardians of the Cedars, Tigers Militia