💬 #Opinion by Maria Zakharova:
Methodology
On March 16, 1968, or 54 years ago to the day, US troops burned the village of Son My in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province to the last house and barn, together with its residents. The Americans slaughtered 567 people, including 173 children and 182 women, 17 of them pregnant women.
The truth about that shocking crime did not immediately become public knowledge. Initially, Washington denied the news, but everything changed after the publication of photographs snapped by Ronald Haeberle from the punitive Charlie Company, 1st Battalion. He kept the photos for a year, until he sold them (this is capitalism, bro!) to American and European media outlets in November 1969. The photos depict peaceful people, peasants, as is evident from their clothes, with horrible wounds: head injuries, entrails hanging from their stomachs, and faces distorted with inhuman pain. You can also see laughing American soldiers setting fire to houses. The scandal made headlines, but ultimately the blame was laid on only one person, William Calley, who was sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labour. However, he was pardoned after three and a half years of home detention.
#MyLai is a horrible reminder of the American methods of warfare. The tragedy was not made public knowledge intentionally. How many other atrocities have remained unknown to the general public because the Americans left no living witnesses or other evidence? The number of victims in Vietnam can be roughly calculated from another event. Three years before the My Lai tragedy, in March 1965, the Americans launched what is known as Operation Rolling Thunder, a series of bombing raids against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). It went on for three years and was the largest US aerial operation since WWII. The Americans deliberately killed peaceful civilians, bombed out cities and villages, and civilian infrastructure, including bridges, railway lines and motorways. American pilots targeted rice paddies to cause crop failure and famine. According to different estimates, between 50,000 and 180,000 Vietnamese were killed.
The reason for this historical note is that the Kiev regime has been led down the same path, following on with the slaughter of those who refused to submit, the blockade of civilians, and an information boycott.
We decided to remind you about these methods in the context of the events in Donbass and the leading Western media’s disregard for the tragedy in Donetsk, where 20 civilians have been killed and 30 wounded by a Ukrainian ballistic missile.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2160
Methodology
On March 16, 1968, or 54 years ago to the day, US troops burned the village of Son My in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province to the last house and barn, together with its residents. The Americans slaughtered 567 people, including 173 children and 182 women, 17 of them pregnant women.
The truth about that shocking crime did not immediately become public knowledge. Initially, Washington denied the news, but everything changed after the publication of photographs snapped by Ronald Haeberle from the punitive Charlie Company, 1st Battalion. He kept the photos for a year, until he sold them (this is capitalism, bro!) to American and European media outlets in November 1969. The photos depict peaceful people, peasants, as is evident from their clothes, with horrible wounds: head injuries, entrails hanging from their stomachs, and faces distorted with inhuman pain. You can also see laughing American soldiers setting fire to houses. The scandal made headlines, but ultimately the blame was laid on only one person, William Calley, who was sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labour. However, he was pardoned after three and a half years of home detention.
#MyLai is a horrible reminder of the American methods of warfare. The tragedy was not made public knowledge intentionally. How many other atrocities have remained unknown to the general public because the Americans left no living witnesses or other evidence? The number of victims in Vietnam can be roughly calculated from another event. Three years before the My Lai tragedy, in March 1965, the Americans launched what is known as Operation Rolling Thunder, a series of bombing raids against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). It went on for three years and was the largest US aerial operation since WWII. The Americans deliberately killed peaceful civilians, bombed out cities and villages, and civilian infrastructure, including bridges, railway lines and motorways. American pilots targeted rice paddies to cause crop failure and famine. According to different estimates, between 50,000 and 180,000 Vietnamese were killed.
The reason for this historical note is that the Kiev regime has been led down the same path, following on with the slaughter of those who refused to submit, the blockade of civilians, and an information boycott.
We decided to remind you about these methods in the context of the events in Donbass and the leading Western media’s disregard for the tragedy in Donetsk, where 20 civilians have been killed and 30 wounded by a Ukrainian ballistic missile.
https://yangx.top/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/2160
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Мария Захарова
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16 марта 1968 г., 54 года назад в этот день, вьетнамская деревня Сонгми в провинции Куангнгай американскими солдатами была сожжена вместе с людьми до последнего дома и сарая. Было убито с особой жестокостью 567 жителей общины (из них 173 ребенка…
16 марта 1968 г., 54 года назад в этот день, вьетнамская деревня Сонгми в провинции Куангнгай американскими солдатами была сожжена вместе с людьми до последнего дома и сарая. Было убито с особой жестокостью 567 жителей общины (из них 173 ребенка…