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13 June 2010
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America on Human Rights
(2)
The United States on June
10, 2010 urged Iran to uphold all of its
international commitments and to account
honestly for its human rights record. Why
is it necessary for American government
to make this statement? Here is why:
One
day in December 1967, Charlie Company of
1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment,
11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division
arrived in South Vietnam, and before long
the troops suffered 28 incidents
involving mines or booby-traps which
caused injuries and five deaths. Though
they were invasion troops to another
country but they didn't believe the
locals had right to resist their
occupation, thus considered the action
constitutes terrorist activities.
In
January 1968 the military authority
received a piece of intelligence that the
resistance force, 48th NLF Battalion, was
taking refuge in the villages in My Lai.
The
troops decided to take this opportunity
to teach the locals a hard lesson for
supporting their own countrymen. Colonel
Oran K. Henderson urged his officers to
"go in there aggressively, close
with the enemy and wipe them out for
good." Lieutenant-Colonel Frank A.
Barker ordered the 1st Battalion
commanders to burn the houses, kill the
livestock, destroy foodstuffs, and close
the wells.
The
invasion troops landed in My Lai on the
morning of March 16 following an
artillery and helicopter gunship
preparation but located no enemy
fighters.
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The invasion troops point a gun
at the head of an old local
village woman and shoot.
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The family huddle together in
face of the massacre by killing
forces from other side of the
Pacific Ocean.
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After the troops shot the
first villager, the soldiers and officers
were excited by the sight and the smell
of the blood and began attacking anything
that moved, humans and animals, with
firearms, grenades and bayonets. The
brutality of the massacre would probably
make Nazi Germany feel ashamed of
themselves for being relatively soft on
their victims.
The
soldiers gunned down unarmed men, women,
children and babies, herded dozens of
villagers into irrigation ditches to be
shoot at with automatic weapons. Women
were gang raped, some victims were
mutilated with the signature "C
Company" carved into the chest, and
burned all the houses.
After the initial
"sweeps", the army sent the
follow up troops to deal with any
remaining locals, who went on to kill
every still-living human and animal they
could find, including those who emerged
from their hiding places, and searched
through the heaps of bodies to finish off
the wounded lying their moaning.
On
one occasion, the troops asked their
helicopters to trick a group of
villagers, mainly women, children, babies
and elderly, hidden in a bunker to come
the open then shot dead all of them.
Since
the troops had encountered no enemy
opposition, the 4th group of the combat
force gleefully moved in to attack the
locals in a neighbouring settlement,
killing up to 90 villagers.
During
the next two days, the armies were
involved in additional burning and
destruction of dwellings.
The
White House and Pentagon kept covering up
this genocidal war crime against humanity
from public knowledge. Three U.S.
servicemen who made an effort to halt the
massacre and protect the wounded were
denounced by U.S. Congressmen, the worst group of
people on earth, received hate mail and
death threats and found mutilated animals
on their doorsteps for 30 years. So far
the the justice has still not been
service and the perpetrators have not
been punished that matched to their
horrendous anti-humanity crimes.
Here
are some testimonies of the soldiers:
I
would say that most people in our
company didn't consider the
Vietnamese human. —Dennis Bunning
I did not see anyone
alive when we left the village. —Private
First Class Robert Maples
1968年3月16日，侵越美軍老虎部隊懷疑村民掩護逃亡抵抗力量，遂在越南廣南省的美萊村進行大规模的屠殺，男女老幼无一幸免，女性被輪姦，屍體被肢解，房屋被焚毁。隔天美國陸軍部的官方報紙《星條旗報》（Stars and Stripes）在頭版头條大肆庆贺，声称：“美軍包圍赤色分子，殺死128人”。美国军方和媒体的无人性由此可见一斑。
美萊村屠殺的消息被美國軍方和政府封锁，直到1971年美國軍事法庭才因美國陸軍中尉威廉·卡利下令開火而判處其終身監禁，然而上訴後即被減刑至四個半月。另有二十五名被起訴的杀人犯，全部無罪釋放。美国法律的不公正和对人权的践踏由此可见一斑。
三位揭露此种族屠杀的军人在30年中受尽不公正待遇。他们被美国国会议员痛骂、为美国媒体谴责、遭美国公众侮辱；有人给他们寄死亡威胁信、有人将他们的宠物杀死后放在他们的大门口的台阶上。美国政府和公众的不道德和无耻由此可见一斑。
Sorry, wrong example, our
apology. This human rights abuse incident
was carried out by the United States.
But we have more examples,
and may more ...
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