Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as a civilian gets a gun and joins a liberation unit, we call him a VC and try to kill him. But he is the same man he was before. So logically, the only reason to kill him (which we didn't want to do before he armed himself) would be self-defense, as he plans to shoot...
...proposal suggested that the commission examine "aspects of military-civilian governmental operations" to determine whether there have been violations of acceptable standards of wartime behavior...
Many of the Communists' civilian victims died singly or in small groups, as the Viet Cong sought to exterminate effective local leaders loyal to the government in Saigon. In 1960, Father Hoang Ngoc Minh, a popular Kontum parish priest, was ambushed by Viet Cong who drove bamboo spears through his body, then machine-gunned him to death. In 1961, the Viet Cong shot and killed two Vietnamese National Assemblymen near...
...looting, mutilation of enemy dead and the "killing of spies or other persons who have committed hostile acts without trial." Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which Calley is accused of violating, holds a U.S. trooper equally guilty of murder whether his victim is a Vietnamese civilian, an enemy prisoner or a fellow American...
...detail of Hersh's piece. Hersh had quotes from Calley ("I know this sounds funny, but I like the Army . . . and I don't want to do anything to hurt it") and from another soldier who had taken part in the attack ("There are always some civilian casualties in a combat operation...