Do you see any similarities between My Lai and some of the recent military "scandals" that have emerged from Iraq and Afghanistan?
Any information on My Lai would help. Thanks
2006-11-01 15:24:40 · 3 answers · asked by kuzya 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
My Lai was a full-scale massacre carried out on innocent civilians over a period of several hours by a large number of soldiers. Well over a hundred, perhaps as many as 500 civilians, were killed.
Nothing has happened in Iraq or Afghanistan on that scale yet, I believe. But there are similar problems--the difficulty of telling "enemy combatants" from "civilians" in a guerilla war chief among them-- that make events like those at Haditha similar to My Lai.
2006-11-01 16:21:34 · answer #1 · answered by angel_deverell 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Lai vietnam war. March 16 1968 Complete village of 500 massacred,men, women and children by US soldiers under the command of LT. William Calley.
The US government was eventually forced to bring the soldiers to trial by public outrage when it was revealed three years later.
Only Calley was convicted of the personal murder of 22 victims and he was sentenced to hard labor for life.
He only served a few days in prison and , after three and a half years house arrest , he was pardoned by President Nixon.
2006-11-01 17:38:48 · answer #2 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Also consider that the Viet Cong did not perpetrate the kinds of atrocities you are seeing being committed by Sunnis against Shia or Shia against Sunni
2006-11-02 01:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by Mardy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋