“A sweep operation was conducted recently… Crazy American enemy used light machine guns and all kinds of weapons to kill our innocent civilian people in [My Lai]. Most of them were women, kids, just born babies and pregnant women. They shot everything they saw. They killed all domestic animals. They burned all people’s houses. There were 26 families killed completely – no survivors… The American wolf forgot its good sheep’s appearance. They opened mouth to eat, to drink our people blood with all their animal barbarity. Our people have only one way: it is to kill them so they can not bite anymore.”
-- Viet Cong radio broadcast on My Lai, 1968
Content Warning SA and Gore about the My Lai Massacre :amerikkka:
On this day in 1968, the My Lai Massacre took place when U.S. troops in the Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam massacred and raped hundreds of unarmed civilians, including women, children, and infants. The event was a war crime and suppressed by the U.S. military despite multiple whistleblowers coming forward. Estimates of the total killed range between 347 and 504.
Despite two soldiers writing letters to their superiors about the possibility of a war crime having taken place, the U.S. government claimed that the event was a military victory for several months after it occurred. It was only after an independent journalist broke the story and the true nature of the massacre became public that twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses.
Only one, Lieutenant William Calley Jr., was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest. The incident sparked global outrage and spurred the domestic anti-war movement. Three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and rescue the hiding civilians were shunned and denounced as traitors, including by multiple U.S. Congressmen.
Along with the No Gun Ri massacre in South Korea 18 years earlier, Mỹ Lai was one of the largest publicized massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century
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On my way to work today I was almost hit by a someone driving the wrong way on the interstate.
I was in the far left lane, just about to come out of an s turn when suddenly a car appears (blocked before by the concrete divider thing.) I first brake hard, but realize I am no way going to stop in time and they keep coming. I start to move towards the shoulder and so does the oncoming car. Oh god, I then stop my movement to see if he was going to take the shoulder. They stop moving to the shoulder too, they’re heading right for me, left blinker just blinking. I just hit the gas and whip my car as close to the concrete as I could, they barely missed me. This all happens in maybe 3 to 5 seconds, but felt like minutes.
I watch as others avoid them in my rear view mirror as I get back on the road. I then realize I never shifted out of 5th and the car never shuddered cause of it so I must not have slowed down as much as I thought. Well I call the police, tell them what’s up, the lady said they’re aware and shit. I hang up then I just start crying. Just sort of that silent kind of cry, where tears happen but nothing else. Which is odd cause normally I’m more of a bawler, just a real annoying kind of cryer.
I made it to work and have been just out of it all day. I hope they didn’t hurt anyone, or themselves, I’ve been checking the news over and over, but there’s nothing about it.
Thanks, its been a weird day. I just got back in my car and my music picked up where it left off when I paused it to call and it was escapee by architecture in helsinki. Can’t make this shit up.
Yooo, to anyone who remembers my comment from a few days ago: my bf heard back from the recruiter and he has an interview for tomorrow! Send me all your good vibes folks 🙌🤞
I was just joking. It just seemed ominous to mention a recruiter and nothing else on a leftist forum.
Tbh I don't live in the US and recruiter has absolutely no correlation to the military in my mind
Yesterday: Scooby Scooby-Doo!
Today: My Lai Massacre
Taking off your boots at the end of the day is second only to taking off your bra at the end of the day
Sure sex is great, but have you ever told your thesis adviser "you received my most recent draft, so I don't think there's anything to discuss this week".
My religion teacher talking about how stocks are all fake and bullshit :based-department:
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The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
-- Ho Chi Minh :uncle-ho:
Sorry guys, I'm not communist anymore. In a wacky turn of events, I met my rich doppelganger, swapped lives for a week, and learned a valuable lesson that rich people have it just as bad as poor people! Goodbye everyone, I'm moving to /r/neoliberal
donating $3 to bernie was the worst thing ive ever done. these emails never fucking end
