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...Font's request was based on the December testimony before the Vietnam Veterans Commission of Inquiry of 40 Vietnam veterans that My Lai and other atrocities against Vietnamese civilians grew directly out of top-level U. S. military policy...
...FONT HAS SAID he believes the charges stem from his Jan. 11 request that the Secretary of the Army convene a board of inquiry to investigate responsibility for alleged atrocities in Vietnam, including some said to have taken place during operations commanded by Seaman...
...Font stated in his allegations that an inquiry should follow from the Yamashita rule, under which the U. S. hanged the Japanese commander in the Philippines in 1946 for atrocities his men committed without his knowledge or authority. The U. S. Supreme Court has upheld a military court ruling that a commander is responsible for the conduct of his men whether or not he is aware of their activities...
...three freshman Congressmen, Representatives Parren J. Mitchell (D-Md.). Bella S. Abzug (D-N. Y.), and Ronald V. Dellums (D-Calif.) asked Secretary of the Army Stanley T. Resor to investigate charges that Font is being harassed because of his antiwar activities and the housing report that he compiled...
Then on Feb. 17, Font filed charges against Major General Samuel W. Koster for "dereliction of duty" for allowing war crimes to be committed under his command, and against Seaman for "conspiracy to commit war crimes" and for "dereliction of duty" for allowing his men to commit war crimes in 1967, with regard to Operations Cedar Falls and Junction City, which he planned and executed...