“Just following orders” is not a defense for #warcrimes
"Military Task Force of National Lawyers Guild explains tt “members of te #military hv te right, & in some cases hv te duty, to refuse illegal orders” In Mar 1968 (Vietnam War), members of te military #killed hundreds of #civilians in te […]
March 29, 1971 - U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley was found guilty at a court martial for his part in the My Lai massacre which claimed the lives of hundreds of South Vietnamese civilians.
3/29/1971-Lieutenant William Calley was found guilty at a court martial for his part in the My Lai massacre which claimed the lives of hundreds of South Vietnamese civilians. Convicted for the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians, sentenced to 3 years under house arrest.
#MyLai
Today in 1971, Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 #MyLai massacre. (Initially sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor, Nixon commuted Calley’s sentence to 3 years of house arrest.)
#Murder
#WarCrime
#AmericanImperialism
Thinking of those killed and harmed at #MyLai.
And that those harms are still with us.
March 16, 1968 - U.S. troops in South Vietnam killed 504 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, a pair of hamlets in the coastal lowlands of Quang Ngai Province. The victims were from 247 families, completely eliminating 24 of them, three generations with no survivors. Among the dead were 182 women, 17 of them pregnant, and 173 children, including 56 infants, and 60 older men.
Hugh Thompson
3/16/1968-U.S. troops in South Vietnam killed 504 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, a pair of hamlets in the coastal lowlands of Quang Ngai Province.
#MyLai
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Üç ülke, üç katliam!
16 Mart 1978 #BeyazıtKatliamı
16 Mart 1988 #HalepceKatliamı
16 Mart 1968 Vietnam #MyLai katliamı
Bugün dünyanın farklı yerlerinde ve tarihlerinde halkları ve öncülerini hedef alan katliamlar gerçekleşti.Katliamı gerçekleştirenler,emperyalist devletler ve onların beslemeleriydi.
![An American soldier burns a dwelling in My Lai. By Ronald L. Haeberle - Report of Army review into My Lai incident, book 6, 14 March 1970[1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2461676](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:55mxt4inqycnsmkaebqk6mo6/bafkreigbjxl6x6lycwmmjcwgywi7whz2imgwow2lohsioqpyo723qdkcky)
An American soldier burns a dwelling in My Lai. By Ronald L. Haeberle - Report of Army review into My Lai incident, book 6, 14 March 1970[1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2461676
Today in #LaborHistory 3/16/1968: US troops slaughter 500 Vietnamese villagers in #MyLai #Massacre. Story was broken by #SeymourHersch. Also covered #Watergate, #CIA domestic spying in US, torture & abuse at #AbuGhraib
This is an excellent thread from 2024. #MyLai
Tal día como hoy: qué pasó el 16 de marzo en la historia #16deMarzo #TalDiaComoHoy #Efemerides #Historia #HistoriaUniversal #QuePasoUnDiaComoHoy #AldoMoro #MyLai #Halabja #Magallanes #Caligula #CarreraEspacial #FreedomsJournal #GoogleDiscover #FelizLunes donporque.com/que-paso-el-...
16 March 1968 – Vietnam War #MyLai massacre; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are murdered by #USArmy troops. Almost all were women, children and elderly men. Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson and helicopter crew Lawrence Colburn and Glenn Andreotta attempted to intervene and stop the slaughter.
Second only to the #MyLai massacre.
This week in working class history:
16 March 1968 – My Lai Massacre
On this day, the US Army’s Charlie Company murdered hundreds of unarmed civilians in a planned attack on the Vietnamese village.
Read the full article by Phil Butland:
theleftberlin.com/16-march-196...
#MyLai #USWarCrimes
#MAGA = Massacre America Great Again.
Mechanical excavators dug graves in #Minab, #Iran, for >160 girls #martyred by American attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_a...
58 years after #MyLai, Minab joins […]
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“Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to Reuters, “While the Department of War is currently investigating this matter, the Iranian regime targets civilians and children, not the United States of America.” “
#MyLai
#Naphalm
![Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1967 - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence [Full Speech]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66uhq7rgsjp67fglcrak6shw/bafkreiflwj53nuet72bj2j6z6ddeardcfetcsh3xf2222ozbbsfeqy2mfy)
Know your history. #Cover-Up revisits #MyLai, where US soldiers murdered >500 unarmed men, women and *babies,* weeks before #MLK was murdered. "We're a country of enormous violence," said Seymour Hersh. Lt. Calley said he was a "fall guy." Nixon reduced his sentence to just 3 yrs house arrest....
For the soldiers who think "they have to follow orders". Go watch this and tell me what you think: #MyLai #Venezuela
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Pr...
“The order was to destroy Mylai & everything in it.” Sound familiar?
Re military code of justice—Do NOT follow ILLEGAL orders, I cited #MyLai #LtCalley for reasons why. #Netflix #Cover_Up brutal Army Vietnam massacre Rumsfeld tried to hide. Facts matter & history repeats itself. youtu.be/9CxEnECKs9U
#COVER-UPdoc
#documentary
#Vietnam #MyLai
Cripes, it took you until NOW to figure out that the USA is a thug state which can't be trusted?
#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #BayOfPigs #TonkinGulf #MyLai #AbuGhraib #Guantanamo #Ferguson #Gaza
Ik bezocht My Lai in Vietnam. In 1968 vond hier tijdens de Vietnamoorlog een verschrikkelijk bloedbad plaats. Het bloedbad van My Lai is het beschamendste hoofdstuk van de Amerikaanse inmenging in Vietnam. 👇
jtravel.nl/azie/vietnam...
#mylai #vietnam
TORTURED LOGIC of a COWARD like #TomCotton
To infer that a couple of fishermen hell let's call them Drug runners clinging on a burning boat were still " in the fight"
He would have been court-martialed for #MyLai if he was Nam era.
Thank you @jackcocchiarella.bsky.social and @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social for pointing out how #Closely #Kegseth actions in the #Caribbean resemble what happened at #MyLai in #Vietnam And #Yes the whole #Amerikkkan involvement in #Vietnam was a #WarCrime
youtu.be/iWEUo3IN4Cc?...
