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Revision as of 15:27, 23 March 2017
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| Date | 16 March 1968 |
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| Coordinates | 15.178333, 108.869444 |
| Perpetrators | US Army |
| Deaths | 504 |
| Injured (non-fatal) | ?"?" is not a number. |
| Exposed by | Seymour Hersh |
| Description | The systematic, cold-blooded murder and butchery of 504 vietnamese civilians including 173 children by a company of 115 US army soldiers. |
The 26 soldiers charged with the hundreds of murders eventually served a total of only 3½ years under house arrest.
The Official Culprit
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| Task force from the United States Army Americal Division 2LT. William Calley (convicted and then released by President Nixon to serve house arrest for two years) |
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