Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experience, even conservative bankers and businessmen, if not themselves involved in the official rape of the people, will bitterly admit that the Communists are more efficient and less corrupt, that they take less from the rice bowl of the common...
...young air force veteran and his girl had wandered into Central Park after a Y.W.C.A. dance. They had been attacked by three thugs who had beaten the young man to death, robbed his body of some $6, and hauled his girl into the bushes for a double rape. About 4 a.m. the same day, a trio answering the same description had dragged two men from a car in Astoria, shot one, and beaten the other mercilessly. For twelve days, the thugs had been at large...
...More compelling, Pentagon lawyers could find no precedent of a U.S. serviceman's having been executed for murder or rape of a German or Japanese...
...with the 2nd Armored Division from start to finish, and recall a number of special orders posted describing the death sentence having been carried out for rape-murder! These orders came from Army command and I have no reason to doubt them. ... It seems to me the Pentagon lawyers can find no precedent in many things we took for granted...
...official figures: of a total of 141 G.I. executions, one was for repeated desertion, 139 for murder alone, or for rape and murder-all of nationals other than Germans or Japanese...