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...punished without trial before a court. Civilians may be removed from their homes for imperative military reasons, but they must be returned as soon as local combat ends. They may not be used to protect combatants, whether by placing them inside military objectives (a Viet Cong tactic) or by forcing them to precede troops across minefields, a practice that Calley admitted to without a qualm...
Though no other My Lai-scale massacre has yet been revealed, Americans have committed a disturbing number of atrocities in Viet Nam. Many offenders have been strictly prosecuted. In 1 Corps in 1968, for example, seven Marines summarily hanged a Viet Cong suspect and shot two others to death. At a court-martial, one defense lawyer argued that his client had gone through "hell" after seeing Marine bodies "burned and tortured, some with their testicles cut off." Nonetheless all seven Marines were convicted and imprisoned, one for life...
...Army has never suggested that the enemy's atrocities justify those by Americans. In practice, though, military courts sometimes follow the unofficial "mere gook" rule, which devalues Vietnamese lives. One Army captain was accused of murder after ordering a trooper to shoot a captured Viet Cong. The court was told that he had commanded: "I don't care about prisoners. I want a body count. I want that man shot." Nevertheless the captain was acquitted...
...what may have been the heaviest death toll on a U. S. installation in the war, 33 Americans are dead and 76 wounded after a Viet Cong attack Sunday on Fire Base Mary Ann, an artillery base 50 miles south of Da Nang...
...infantry assault against My Lai was spearheaded by Calley's 1st Platoon, a unit of Charlie company within the America Division. The assault failed to find any Viet Cong soldiers, and the operation disintegrated into an execution of civilian villagers...