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#OtD 16 Mar 1968 the Mỹ Lai massacre took place in Vietnam, in which around 500 unarmed villagers were murdered by US troops and others raped. One US helicopter crew saw and landed to stop the killing and reported it, but the army retaliated against them https://t.co/8R99lizout https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e14-the-vietnam-war-with-noam-chomsky/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

CheDN

@workingclasshistory Don't read the history of it unless you can stomach war crimes, followed by successful cover-up and whitewashing. Tldr; Almost no one received any meaningful punishment for this atrocity.

https://armyhistory.org/my-lai/

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xs4me2

@workingclasshistory

Never forget this…

Nor the Warsaw uprising and the subsequent killings, Oradour, Babajar, the list is endless, no limits to human cruelty…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_crimes

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Kid Mania

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@workingclasshistory
Quick supplemental note:

For those to young to know, or those who are blissfully unaware, @workingclasshistory was kind enough to post only this image of women and children in terror. Most pictures from My Lai are far far grimmer. I'm gonna CW this. But I do think its important people are aware of the reality. There is nothing gratuitous about this--this is our history as humanity:

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Maddad

@workingclasshistory

It's disgusting that we could do anything like this.
Unfortunately this isn't the only war crime we committed in VN
When it comes to war, our military behaves no better than any other military organization.

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