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Up to 500 helpless human beings were slaughtered by the well-armed and well-fed US soldiers. The US soldiers moved into the small hamlet called My Lai in then South Vietnam during the morning of March 16 1968. The lack of any kind of resistance only caused The US soldiers to go into an uncontrollable shooting frenzy.
Up to 500 helpless human beings were slaughtered by the well-armed and well-fed US soldiers. The US soldiers moved into the small hamlet called My Lai in then South Vietnam during the morning of March 16 1968. The lack of any kind of resistance only caused The US soldiers to go into an uncontrollable shooting frenzy.
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Up to 500 helpless human beings were slaughtered by the well-armed and well-fed US soldiers. The US soldiers moved into the small hamlet called My Lai in then South Vietnam during the morning of March 16 1968. The lack of any kind of resistance only caused The US soldiers to go into an uncontrollable shooting frenzy.
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The US is now the greatest killer and murderer of the modern age.
During the Vietnam War, the US pillaged, burned and slaughtered
with unrestrained gusto and on one day in March 1968 at a place called My Lai, the whole world truly got a taste of this very unrestrained lust for great murder and mass slaughter. Up to 500 helpless human beings were slaughtered by the well-fed and well-armed US army soldiers who moved into the small hamlet called My Lai in Quang Ngai province of then South Vietnam during the morning of March 16 1968 ostensibly to fight the enemy. My Lai is actually part of a larger area or village called Son My. Just before the US soldiers entered the area, they were given very clear and specific orders to 'burn the houses, kill the livestock and close the village wells for good'. The US soldiers were also told that by 'morning all vilagers would have left for the local marketplace' and thus anyone found staying behind or loitering around was an enemy and had to be wiped out. On the morning of March 16 the US soldiers arrived but detected no enemy combatants. Still, they thought that the enemy could be hiding somewhere and thus the US soldiers sprayed bullets at all places where it was thought someone or something could be hiding. Several civilians were killed on the spot but it did not stop the US soldiers. The lack of any kind of resistance only caused the US soldiers to go into an uncontrollable shooting frenzy. They began to throw grenades as well and used their bayonets against domestic animals and pets too. When the soldiers stumbled on civilians huddling together inside the huts the murderous US soldiers shot all on the spot. Babies, children, the old and the elderly, women were all mowed down. Anyone who ran out even with their hands on their heads were shot immediately. (Jap soldiers of WW2 fame would have readily expressed unreserved admiration for such brotherly executioners). Many young women and girls caught alive by the US soldiers were taken to a suitable corner and gang-raped and afterwards killed. Their bodies were mutilated with possibly some of them still gasping for breath as the US soldiers went about their work. Some of the US soldiers tortured their victims and carved their bodies before executing them and throwing the torsos afterwards into a ditch. By late morning, word of the horrors taking place in the area began to reach certain officers and a ceasefire was immediately ordered. But by then huge numbers of bodies were strew all over the village. One soldier named Calley was personally responsible for killing scores of people. His men had actually rounded up a large group of villagers and ordered them to strip naked. When they refused, one soldier fired a grenade launcher at them, killing them all on the spot. Others were dragged out of hiding and used for repeated and openly wild shooting sessions. The men controlled by Calley then went over all those lying on the ground and duly finished off those still groaning and crying. Such was the great bravery and sense of soldier's responsiblity on the part of the US Army soldiers. The soldiers actually spread to nearby hamlets and did the very same thing to all the living creatures found there. Afterwards the huts were set on fire and everything was smashed to pieces. A helicopter crew who overflew the area caught sight of the scene and the carnage below and reported it to their superior. Despite this little hiccup, the overall US commander in South Vietnam soon congratulated the US soldiers for an 'outstanding job' and was mighty 'pleased with the reported body count'. Such a situation was soon to be repeated many times over in Vietnam and eleswhere in the many coming years. The report of possible atrocities in My Lai eventually resulted in an initial investigation being made. A summary of the actions stated that only 'twenty civilians' were accidentally killed. In the end it was still a legitimate military operation with no illegal behaviour by the US soldiers. Case closed. However, six months later a soldier wrote a letter to the new US commander for South Vietnam and detailed the string of atrocities committed by the US soldiers against Vietnamese civilians. Again, an investigation was ordered. Again, the investigation summary found nothing that was illegal or wrong and instead wrote about the very 'excellent relations between Vietnamese civilians and US soldiers'. Dead people certainly can tell no tales and the carnage at My Lai would never have been known had it not been for another soldier who one year later wrote letters to Richard Nixon and many other members of the US Congress detailing the very unspeakable horrors that took place at My Lai. The letters were all ignored except for one written to the representative from Arizona. A new investigation was initiated and finally Calley and several others were charged and brought to trial. Very typically, most of the charges were quickly dropped and the names of almost all the accused were duly removed from the charge sheet. But finally after several months, Calley was convicted of ordering the killing of civilians in My Lai on March 29 1971, three years after the carnage in My Lai. Incredulously, despite the massive numbers of dead people, only Calley alone was found guilty. Such is the very high level of US justice and US moral standards. Definitely, the US now has the right to lecture the whole world and teach everyone how to walk. Calley was sentenced to life imprisonment but was immediately released and let free to make an appeal. Calley later served four and a half months in prison for his role in the carnage at My Lai and walked out a free man in September 1975. Calley is still alive today and now says that he was just merely following orders given by upper levels when he participated in the killings and tortures at My Lai. This recalls the very many similar episodes in Iraq and even right now, today in abul. US commanders and political leaders are nothing more than a bunch of murderers and sickos and sadists but it should not be a surprise at all given the very violent and very aggressive nature of US national conduct and behaviour. Today, their leaders are lusting for the blood of people stretching all across entire continents. We must stand up and reject their ceaseless demands for military actions and sanctions and punishments and whatever else they want that allow them to unrestrictedly taste and enjoy human blood. The US is indeed a very, very murderous nation and its leaders are all descended from either mass murderers, torturers, rapists, spouse bashers, plunderers or totally heinous liars. They are truly very, very EVIL. They are totally unredeemable hypocrites as well. WE must never, never forget the US's unbounding capacity to do very, very extremely great evil. They are really devils through and through. Always remember it.