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'Kažeš, nadalje: ''po toj tvojoj logici moglo se suditi nakon 2. Svj. Rata osim njemačkim generalima i saveznicima jer bilo je zločina i s njihove strane''. Ovdje se jedino čudim tvom čuđenju - i što ti se to ukazuje kao argument PROTIV mene. Nj., pobogu, pa dabome da se moglo - ispravka: da se TREBALO suditi i saveznicima!' - pero u šaci

Pročitavši dio polemike, jer imam nizak prag tolerancije prema licemjerju i ne želim narušavati svoje psihičko zdravlje, samo bih se složio sa 'perom u šaci' -

SAČUVAJ NAS, BOŽE, LJUDI KOJI IMAJU BOGA NA SVOJOJ STRANI

... prilažem toj polemici ovo ispod pa sami prosudite tko su ti ljudi.

On the morning of March 16 Charlie Company landed following a short artillery and helicopter gunship preparation. Though the Americans found no enemy fighters in the village, many soldiers suspected there were NLF troops hiding underground in the homes of their elderly parents or wives. The US soldiers, one platoon of which was led by Second Lieutenant William Calley, went in shooting at what they deemed to be an enemy position.

Once the first civilians were wounded or killed by indiscriminate fire, the soldiers began attacking humans and animals alike, with firearms, grenades and bayonets. The scale of the massacre compounded, the brutality only increasing with each killing. BBC News described the scene: "Dozens of people, herded into an irrigation ditch and other locations, were killed with automatic weapons."[16]

A large group of about 70–80 villagers, rounded up by the 1st Platoon in the center of the village, were killed on an order given by Calley who also participated. Calley also shot two other large groups of civilians with a weapon taken from a soldier who had refused to do any further killing.

Members of the 2nd Platoon killed at least 60–70 Vietnamese people, as they swept through the northern half of My Lai 4 and through Binh Tay, a small subhamlet about 400 meters north of My Lai 4.[3]

After the initial "sweeps" by the 1st and the 2nd Platoons, the 3rd Platoon was dispatched to deal with any "remaining resistance." They immediately began killing every still-living human and animal they could find. This included the Vietnamese who had emerged from their hiding places and the wounded, found moaning in the heaps of bodies. The 3rd Platoon also rounded up and killed a group of seven to twelve women and children.[3]

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In a four-month-long trial, despite claims that he was following orders from his commanding officer, Captain Medina, Calley was convicted, on March 29, 1971, of premeditated murder for ordering the shootings. He was initially sentenced to life in prison. Two days later, however, President Nixon made the controversial decision to have Calley released from prison, pending appeal of his sentence. Calley's sentence was later adjusted, so that he would eventually serve four and one-half months in a military prison at Fort Benning.

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Some have argued that the outcome of the My Lai courts-martial was a reversal of the laws of war that were set forth in the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals.[33] Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway was quoted in the New York Times as stating that Calley's sentence was reduced because Calley honestly believed that what he did was a part of his orders—a rationale that stands in direct contradiction of the standards set at Nuremberg and Tokyo, where German and Japanese soldiers were executed for similar acts.

...My Lai Massacre