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...Last week, on Dick Cavett's TV talk show and in talks with newsmen later, he said that Westmoreland could be found guilty of Viet Nam war crimes if he were to be tried by the same standard under which the U.S. hanged Japanese General Tomayuki Yamashita...
Telford Taylor, a retired brigadier general and presently law professor at Columbia, said Friday night that Westmoreland could be tried by the standards on which the Japanese commander in the Philippines, General Tomayuki Yamashita, was convicted and hanged. As commanding officer, Yamashita was held responsible for not stopping atrocities committed by troops under his command...
...common soldiers and junior officers, according to Taylor, depends largely on whether or not their acts are consistent with widespread battle practiceregardless of official orders. If they are consistent, then responsibility may move up as high as the commanding general. Taylor cites the case of General Tomayuki Yamashita, commander of Japanese forces in the Philippines during the chaotic final stages of World War II. Yamashita had given orders against unnecessary killing, but because he failed to prevent it, a military court tried him and put him to death. Taylor suggests that a U.S. tribunal composed of officers...
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