Key issue essay In 1968 on the 9th of March US soldiers from ‘c’ company entered hamlets in Quang Ngai on a search and destroy mission. The hamlets and My Lai were known as the Vietcong territory(Vietnamese army). US soldiers lost all control and killed 300-400 civilians including; men, women and children. 70 of these civilians were mown down with automatic fire once herded into a ditch. Over a year the US army covered up their massacre and 13 soldiers were charged with war crimes against humanity.
Jehovahs Witnesses: Jehovah's Witnesses did not have anything to do with the war. This meant that they did not have anything to do with the NCC (Non-Combat Corps), the FAU (Friends Ambulance Unit) nor did they do nay type of work that they felt had ties with the war. This meant that in prison they refused to do any work that would aid in the war, even if it mean that they would be treated harshly. They were, and still are, completly neatural. Quakers: Quakers would not fight in the war but some did participate in things such as the NCC (Non-Combat Corps), FAU (Friends Ambulance Unit), things done in work camps, and work done in prisons.
It is determined that 1.5 million out of the 2 million Armenians were killed in this genocide. The only part of the Armenian cultural remaining is their language, songs, poetry, and their tragic memories (Adalian). To the rest of the world the Armenian genocide is unclear and many governments do not except this occurrence as genocide. During the time of the genocide many governments were preoccupied with their countries involvement in WWI. This led to a lack of any attempts to try and stop it from occurring and as some were rescued the overall outcome was too little too late (Adalian).
To go on, these same eye witnesses were never questioned by authorities until 48 hours after the incident occurred. This is a perfect example of how the Oxford police were indifferent to the crime and had no interest in pursuing justice. It is one thing to realize that so many townspeople would care so little, but it is the police’s job to care and effectively ‘protect and serve’. The racial killing of Marrow was not only grossly unnecessary but also morally lacking. It is hard to believe that even in the 1970’s so many people in my own town could so readily display such a disgusting side of human nature.
The Chinese district of Cholon suffered with hundreds of civilians killed in the American counter attacks.” (First Battle) “On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army forces conducted a mass murder of hundreds of unarmed citizens in South Vietnam. Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in Charlie Company of Task Force Barker, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 22 villagers. His company herded hundreds of unarmed villagers into a ditch and shot them to death.” (Miller 65) When the My Lai Massacre became public knowledge, it reduced U.S. support at home for the Vietnam War and created an anti-war movement. The anti-war movement became
The 1983 Bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon Jason Sauerland Southwest Florida College Abstract The bombing ob the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon was a very tragic incident for all American soldiers. It was the United States’ first experience with a suicide bomb, the largest non-nuclear explosion detonated on the face of the Earth, and it marked the beginning of an era for the Middle East and the United States. On October 23, 1983, at approximately 6:30 AM, a yellow Mercedes delivery truck drove to Beirut International Airport, where the United States Marines had their headquarters. The truck was a hijacked water delivery truck, and was driven by Ismalal Ascari, an Iranian. The truck contained about 12,000 pounds of TNT, and it plowed over the barbed wire fence and past
Explaining My Lai In 1968 the civilians in South Vietnam were killed by American soldiers called Charlie Company. They killed around 350 to 500 unarmed villagers because they were ordered to by William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company. Previous to the massacre Charlie Company had suffered many injuries and 5 deaths due to booby traps, but there were no sight of the people who had set them. Charlie Company were told that after 7:00 am the only people left in the nearby village would be NLF or NLY sympathisers, they were told to leave no one alive, burn houses and crop. When the soldiers attacked the village there was no resistance, only women, children and the elderly who were there, they got brutally murdered and even raped and
The Rape of Nanking. No word exists, not even rape, that is a proper justification for the atrocities that occurred during the occupation of China’s capital by Japanese forces during World War II. Over the 6 concentrated weeks of killing in Nanking, the noncombatant death toll has been placed at times higher than 350,000 by some with an estimated 20,000-80,000 women raped. On the soldiers’ way to Nanking, no town in their way was spared a similar fate. The horrible murders had innumerable variations in the form and scope of the killing.
Every night American family saw graphic pictures of Zippo raids, bombings and killings. Almost every town and village in the America faced the problem of their young men being either killed or wounded in Vietnam * Others faced physiological problems such as post-traumatic stress * President Johnson ordered heavy air force bombing raids which led to deaths of thousands of Vietnamese civilians including women and children * More than 11 000 died in 1967 a further 16 500 died in 1968 ( American soldiers) * The My Lai massacre resulted in the murder of 397-504 civilians mainly women, children and the elderly. Many of the victims were raped and tortured * The horror of death maiming, burning, terror and unthinkable destruction of a small country on the evening news, coupled with the threat of the draft made it feel like nothing
Most of the deaths were Tutsis and most of those who were involved in the violence were Hutus. The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali (which is the capital of Rwanda) airport on 6 April 1994. It was only c couple of hours after the assignation of the president Juvenal Habyarimana violence spread across the capital and then the country and it took several months before the violence was ceased. Before the murder of the president there was already conflict between the Tuties and the Hutu’s since the country was