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My Lai massacre - War crime committed by US Army personnel involving the mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children (en.wikipedia.org)
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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

and told his men to shoot the Americans if they tried to continue murdering the villagers.

I can't remember where I read it... but apparently a group of British soldiers did the same thing during the Korean War when they witnessed US personnel guarding Korean concentration camp inmates that were about to be "liquidated" by ROK troops.

I need to find that again.

this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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