US Government Refuse to Investigate Vietnam Massacres!

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The US Defence Department says it will not reopen investigations into alleged Vietnam War atrocities, despite new claims.

According to an investigation by the Ohio-based Toledo Blade newspaper, the elite Tiger Force unit of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division killed hundreds of unarmed villagers over seven months in 1967.

Soldiers told the newspaper they had severed ears from the dead, stringing them on shoelaces to wear around their necks, and had dropped grenades into bunkers where children and women were taking refuge.

Based on interviews with former Tiger Force soldiers it estimated the unit killed hundreds of unarmed people.

In one incident, two partially blind men found wandering in a valley were shot dead, records show.

Platoon members had opened fire on 10 elderly farmers, killing four, on approaching a rice paddy.

US Shun Vietnam Massacres

Refusing to hold there hands up and admit there massacres of civillians as per usual. This what the Americans must mean when they say for For Truth, Justice and the American Way!

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*According to an investigation by the Ohio-based Toledo Blade newspaper, the elite Tiger Force unit of the Army's 101st Airborne Division killed hundreds of unarmed villagers over seven months in 1967. *

That is just the tip of the iceberg. Over 11 years the American bombs and missiles killed millions of Vietnamese, and injured untold numbers of others. Despite all the war crimes and butchery committed by the US military, and all their "superior" technology they lost badly - something that the American's will never forget.

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*The killing spree was either ignored or encouraged by army top brass, but when an inquiry did take place it lasted for four years. No one was charged. Details were not released to the public, and are still classified. Bill Carpenter, a former special infantryman with Tiger Force, believes the self-styled death squad’s former commander, Lt James Hawkins, should be held accountable. He ‘thoroughly enjoyed killing’ and, now retired to Florida, still defiantly defends his platoon’s wartime activities. ‘I don’t regret nothing,’ Hawkins has said. *

Vietnam killing spree revelations shock US](The Observer archive | The Guardian) The Observer

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The killing spree was either ignored or encouraged by army top brass, but when an inquiry did take place it lasted for four years. No one was charged. Details were not released to the public, and are still classified.

American war crminals, and their justice.

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Originally posted by Malik73: *
**The killing spree was either ignored or encouraged by army top brass, but when an inquiry did take place it lasted for four years. No one was charged. Details were not released to the public, and are still classified.*

American war crminals, and their justice.
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You can say that again!

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At least they killed only their enemies, whether civilians or soldiers.

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*Originally posted by shawaiz: *
At least they killed only their enemies, whether civilians or soldiers.
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So civillians are enemies now ok guess no one can complain about sept 11 anymore then!

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Editor’s Note: Ignoring the actions of a homicidal U.S. paratroop unit during the Vietnam War will only contributre to further misguided and destructive foreign adventures, the writer says.

Despite the shocking revelations, most major newspapers and the television networks gave them short shrift or ignored them. Similarly, Washington officialdom responded with silence. Thus, for most Americans, the events effectively never happened.

Such disregard is part of a pattern of post-war conduct, one that has allowed U.S. political structures, modes of behavior and individual actors responsible for Vietnam-era crimes to remain unscathed. In the specific case reported by the Blade, for example, a Pentagon investigation several years later confirmed that Tiger Force members had committed 20 war crimes. However, no one was prosecuted.

A secret protocol to the 1973 Paris treaty stipulated that Washington would provide funds to reconstruct Vietnam.

Washington has never followed through. President Jimmy Carter summarized the U.S. position in 1977, explaining that there was no need to dispense monies to Vietnam or even to apologize, as “the destruction was mutual.”

The destruction was also profoundly unequal. Whereas about 58,200 American soldiers tragically lost their lives, the Vietnamese suffered an estimated 2 million deaths. Since the war’s end, American land mines and unexploded ordnance have killed or maimed at least 100,000. And about 500,000 Vietnamese children have been born with birth defects believed to be related to the defoliant Agent Orange, with many second- and third-generation children feeling the effects of U.S. chemical warfare today.

Forgetting US Warcrimes in Veitnam

So America signed a protocol to the 1973 Paris treaty stipulated that Washington would provide funds to reconstruct Vietnam.

Another lie from the American Regime they even worse than the liars in the Israeli Government are these 2 competing or something!