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:stargif: 𝑳𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒊 :stargif:
El 16 de marzo de 1968, el fotógrafo militar **Ronald L. Haeberle** llegó a la pequeña aldea vietnamita de Sơn Mỹ, en la provincia de Quảng Ngãi, con una cámara al cuello.
Acompañaba a la Compañía Charlie, del 1.er Batallón, 20.º Regimiento de Infantería del Ejército de Estados Unidos, en una misión que, según los mandos, consistía en localizar combatientes del Viet Cong.Pero allí no había una batalla.
Lo que encontraron fueron campesinos que acababan de empezar su jornada.
Ancianos, mujeres preparando el desayuno, niños jugando, bebés en brazos de sus madres...
Personas completamente desarmadas.Sin embargo, aquella mañana todo se convirtió en un infierno.
Durante varias horas, los soldados fueron reuniendo a los habitantes de la aldea y comenzaron a dispararles.
Muchas mujeres fueron violadas antes de ser asesinadas.
También hubo bebés ejecutados a quemarropa y familias enteras ametralladas mientras intentaban protegerse unas a otras.
Las viviendas fueron incendiadas y el ganado sacrificado.
No hubo combate.
No hubo resistencia.
Solo una matanza.Haeberle fotografió todo aquello.
Como fotógrafo del Ejército utilizaba una cámara oficial con película en blanco y negro, pero además llevaba una cámara personal cargada con película en color.
Fue una decisión que acabaría cambiando la historia.Mientras muchas de las fotografías militares quedaron archivadas, las imágenes en color que tomó por su cuenta mostraban la realidad con una crudeza imposible de negar: montones de cadáveres, niños muertos, mujeres abrazando a sus hijos por última vez y aldeanos aterrados segundos antes de ser asesinados.
Una de las fotografías más inquietantes muestra el cuerpo de un anciano dentro de un pozo.
Si se observa con atención, en la parte superior de la imagen puede verse el reflejo del propio Haeberle sosteniendo la cámara.
Años después contaría que le explicaron que el cadáver había sido arrojado allí para contaminar el suministro de agua de la aldea.Aquella imagen resume perfectamente la brutalidad de lo ocurrido.
Incluso después de muerto, aquel hombre seguía siendo tratado como una herramienta más dentro de una operación militar.Durante meses, el Ejército intentó presentar la operación como un éxito contra fuerzas enemigas.
Apenas trascendieron detalles y el caso quedó enterrado entre informes oficiales.Pero había demasiados testigos.
Uno de ellos fue el piloto de helicóptero **Hugh Thompson Jr.**, que al sobrevolar la zona comprendió que los soldados estadounidenses estaban asesinando civiles.
Llegó incluso a aterrizar su helicóptero entre los militares y un grupo de aldeanos, ordenando a su tripulación apuntar sus armas contra los propios soldados estadounidenses si seguían disparando.
Gracias a esa decisión consiguió salvar varias vidas.
Durante años fue criticado por ello, aunque décadas después recibiría el reconocimiento que merecía.En 1969, el periodista **Seymour Hersh** logró sacar a la luz la historia tras una larga investigación.
Poco después, las fotografías de Haeberle fueron publicadas y dieron la vuelta al mundo.
Ya no eran rumores ni testimonios aislados: cualquiera podía ver con sus propios ojos lo que había ocurrido en My Lai.La investigación militar concluyó que **504 civiles** fueron asesinados aquel día.
La mayoría eran mujeres, niños y ancianos.Pese a la magnitud del crimen, solo una persona fue condenada: el teniente **William Calley**, considerado responsable directo de parte de la matanza.
Fue sentenciado a cadena perpetua, pero la pena se redujo sucesivamente y terminó pasando poco más de tres años bajo arresto domiciliario.Aquello provocó una enorme indignación dentro y fuera de Estados Unidos.
Para muchos, My Lai se convirtió en el símbolo de los excesos y del coste moral de la guerra de Vietnam.Las fotografías de Ronald Haeberle no pudieron salvar a quienes murieron aquella mañana.
Pero sí evitaron que la masacre desapareciera bajo informes militares, cifras impersonales y comunicados oficiales.
A veces una fotografía no cambia lo que ha ocurrido.
Pero consigue que el mundo ya no pueda mirar hacia otro lado.
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#historia #vietnam #guerradevietnam #mylai #ronaldhaeberle #fotografíahistórica #seymourhersh #memoriahistórica #derechoshumanos #historiacontemporánea #curiosidadeshistoricas
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Trump says it may never be known who was at fault for strike on girls' school in Iran | Reuters
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I'm warning to Trump's mods at the #WhiteHouse.
Yes, tacky ugly showy. But a genius #RorschachTest. #MAGA fans cheer the tackiness. Centrists & liberals lament loss of "dignity".
Those 3 tribes of imperialists believe in the WH as core of a virtuous project.
Others can't unsee the brutality of empire. WH is the heart of a 250yo crime scene. From here, North America was genocided, then the empire reached globally.
Demolish. Make the ruins a memorial to #MyLai, #Hiroshima, #WoundedKnee, #Gaza.
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“Just following orders” is not a defense for #warcrimes
"Military Task Force of National Lawyers Guild explains tt “members of te #military hv te right, & in some cases hv te duty, to refuse illegal orders” In Mar 1968 (Vietnam War), members of te military #killed hundreds of #civilians in te #MyLai #massacre. In a subsequent #courtmartial, Lt William Calley argued tt he was simply following orders🤦♂️ from superior officers. Calley was convicted"
👉 Get the #genocidal #IDF ⚖️
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March 29, 1971 - U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley was found guilty at a court martial for his part in the My Lai massacre which claimed the lives of hundreds of South Vietnamese civilians. Convicted for the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians, he was sentenced to three years under house arrest.
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March 16, 1968 - U.S. troops in South Vietnam killed 504 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, a pair of hamlets in the coastal lowlands of Quang Ngai Province. The victims were from 247 families, completely eliminating 24 of them, three generations with no survivors. Among the dead were 182 women, 17 of them pregnant, and 173 children, including 56 infants, and 60 older men.
Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. commanded the men of Charlie Company, First Battalion, America l Division, and was the only one tried out of 80 involved in what is called the My Lai Massacre. The Army, including a young Major Colin Powell, at first tried to cover it up and the media resisted reporting it.
Some of Calley's soldiers refused to participate, but only 24-year-old helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson and his crew stopped it by putting themselves between the villagers and the troops pursuing them.
Chief My Lai prosecutor William Eckhardt described how Thompson responded to what he found when he put his helicopter down: "[Thompson] put his guns on Americans, said he would shoot them if they shot another Vietnamese, had his people wade in the ditch in gore to their knees, to their hips, took out children, took them to the hospital...flew back [to headquarters], standing in front of people, tears rolling down his cheeks, pounding on the table saying, 'Notice, notice, notice'...then had the courage to testify time after time after time."
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#OTD in 1968 Hugh Thompson and two helicopter crew members placed themselves between American troops and the villagers they were murdering at My Lai in #Vietnam. Thirty years later the three men visited Vietnam and a few of the (now) women they saved. One woman asked why the other men (those doing the killing) didn't come along ... so they could forgive them.
Detailed story well worth reading. Hugh Thompson was pilot in command,
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#MAGA = Massacre America Great Again.
Mechanical excavators dug graves in #Minab, #Iran, for >160 girls #martyred by American attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike
58 years after #MyLai, Minab joins the long list of American massacres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#Iraq_War
Expect from the #Pentagon the usual pile of lies. And from the #Democrats the usual "we're better than this" lies.
This happens with invasions.
You can be good guys, or you can be invaders. Choose a lane.
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U.S. senators telling troops they don’t have to obey illegal commands has sparked ire from President Donald Trump, underscoring the enduring principle that soldiers must follow conscience and the law above orders. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/07/duty-to-disobey-unlawful-orders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #us #donaldtrump #markkelly #petehegseth #clausvonstauffenberg #mylai #uniformcodeofmilitaryjustice #nuremberg #internationalcriminalcourt #thehague #germany #france #britain #israel #vietnam
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Oh, look. More soldiers about to follow illegal orders.
For anyone who thought that was actually a real thing still.
Worse is coming. Expect another My Lai.
#Trump #IllegalOrders #Vietnam #MyLai #Illinois #Chicago #NationalGuard
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Kafr Qana impallidisce al confronto per il livello di barbarie.
Nel primo caso, si potrebbe credere che Israele abbia ucciso inavvertitamente decine di persone innocenti; a Tel al-Sultan, invece, è evidente l'intento doloso e criminale di farlo.Quello di Tel al-Sultan è la #MyLai israeliana.
Ma mentre My Lai ha segnato un cambiamento epocale nell'opinione pubblica americana contro la guerra del #Vietnam, Tel al-Sultan non ha interessato la maggior parte dei media israeliani.L'America militarista e sottoposta al lavaggio del cervello di allora era in subbuglio; l'Israele di oggi ha chiuso gli occhi su Tel al-Sultan.
Questi massacri non solo non hanno suscitato alcun cambiamento nell'opinione pubblica né hanno portato a un arresto della guerra, ma sembrano incoraggiare altri massacri. ⬇️6
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March 29, 1971 - U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley was found guilty at a court martial for his part in the My Lai massacre which claimed the lives of hundreds of South Vietnamese civilians. Convicted for the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians, he was sentenced to three years under house arrest.
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March 16, 1968 - U.S. troops in South Vietnam killed 504 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, a pair of hamlets in the coastal lowlands of Quang Ngai Province. The victims were from 247 families, completely eliminating 24 of them, three generations with no survivors. Among the dead were 182 women, 17 of them pregnant, and 173 children, including 56 infants, and 60 older men.
Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. commanded the men of Charlie Company, First Battalion, America l Division, and was the only one tried out of 80 involved in what is called the My Lai Massacre. The Army, including a young Major Colin Powell, at first tried to cover it up and the media resisted reporting it.
Some of Calley's soldiers refused to participate, but only 24-year-old helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson and his crew stopped it by putting themselves between the villagers and the troops pursuing them.
Chief My Lai prosecutor William Eckhardt described how Thompson responded to what he found when he put his helicopter down: "[Thompson] put his guns on Americans, said he would shoot them if they shot another Vietnamese, had his people wade in the ditch in gore to their knees, to their hips, took out children, took them to the hospital...flew back [to headquarters], standing in front of people, tears rolling down his cheeks, pounding on the table saying, 'Notice, notice, notice'...then had the courage to testify time after time after time."
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CW: My Lai Massacre, Vietnam War, Written account of war crimes committed by the US troops
On 16 March 1968, 504 people were killed by American soldiers in Son My, a collection of hamlets nestled between the central Vietnamese coast and a ridge of misty mountains, in what became known in the West as the My Lai Massacre.
In the morning American troops entered the village and rounded up every living thing: old men and women, infants in their mothers' arms, pigs, chickens and water buffalo.
Then the Americans proceeded to kill them all, slowly, carefully, methodically.It took four hours (this was no sudden outburst of passion) for all 504 people and all the animals to be massacred.
Fifty-six of those killed were under the age of seven; some of the infants were bayoneted to death. The women were raped before being shot.
"Vo Cao Loi was 16 when he saw American helicopters buzz low over his family's house on the clear, sunny morning of the massacre.
That was not unusual, Loi said. American troops often passed through the area in then U.S.-backed South Vietnam.
"We were used to it," said Loi. "But we didn't expect them to kill everybody."Loi's mother gave him a bag filled with rice and spare clothes and told him to hide.
He hid beneath coconut trees by a river as U.S. troops dragged women and children out of their houses and shot them."I could usually see my house from where I was hiding, but there was smoke everywhere. All I could hear were explosions, and the ground was shaking," said Loi, who worried that U.S. soldiers were throwing grenades into village shelters.
"I was hoping I was wrong, but it turned out I was right".
Loi's mother, older sister and her five-month-old son were killed by a grenade tossed into their shelter.It was not until 3 p.m. that day that the shooting stopped.
"Only then did the survivors start crying and wailing," said Loi, who lost 18 relatives in the massacre.
There were not enough people left to take the dead to the cemetery, Loi said, so Vietnamese guerrillas helped him bury his family in the grounds of their home."“The point I made then, which was ignored then, is that this behavior by American GIs happened all the time. I had friends who survived and were killed in subsequent massacres in the same area.
There were many massacres [...] I hold a contrarian view about [these] tourist sites [memorials] because they lift up one incident (or one individual) as if this were an aberration, when, at least to my observation, the truth is quite the opposite.” - Lady Borton
"One leading scholarly account of the massacre describes Charlie Company, which carried out the atrocity, as “very average” for American forces.¹ Of Lieutenant William Calley, the only American convicted of the crime, Bilton and Sim say that he was “a bland young man burdened with as much ordinariness as any single individual could bear [...] conventional and commonplace.” Another scholarly account of the massacre says: “There was simply nothing unusual about Charley Company.”³"
"[...]the My Lai massacre was not an aberration. It was an exemplar of what American troops did in Vietnam. The issue that Lady raises is an important one, and it is part of a wider debate that has been going on for decades."
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¹ Four Hours in My Lai, by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim, pages 50-51.
² (Id., at page 49.)
³ My Lai: A Brief History With Documents, by James S. Olson and Randy Roberts, page 10.
On the fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre – Uprise RI
https://web.archive.org/web/20241101161707/https://upriseri.com/2018-03-16-jerry-elmer-my-lai/Survivors of Vietnam's My Lai massacre remember 'darkness and silence' | Reuters
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The only pig who got convicted for My Lai massacre have died.
All the other monsters were let go unpunished and it's surprising that this monster didn't receive the presidential pardon like the 3 war criminals Trump pardoned and US media confidently called "accused" instead of convicted:Trump issues pardons for 3 service members accused of war crimes
But let's not forget the only atrocity of American troops in Vietnam that received enough attention to force pentagon to sacrifice one of their own to save face and cover all the other 100s if not 1000s of other war crimes committed by the American invaders in Vietnam.My Lai: 50 years after, American soldiers’ shocking crimes must be remembered
“The first time the Americans came, the children followed them. They gave the children sweets to eat. Then they smiled and left. We don’t know their language – they smiled and said OK and so we learned the word OK.”
“The second time they came, we poured them water to drink. They didn’t say anything.”
“The third time they killed everyone.”
theconversation.com/my-lai-50-…#MyLai #WarCrime #History #Vietnam #NeverForget #Politics #Pentagon #VietnamWar #WilliamCalley
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- A Vietnam Vet. 20 Million Viewers Watched His Story Start To Finish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tixOyiR8B-8- Interviews with Veterans of My Lai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-6WFSXO4o- Four Hours in MY LAI, anatomy of a massacre
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"Calley, leidinggevende van het peloton, verdedigde zich begin jaren 70 voor de krijgsraad door te zeggen dat hij slechts bevelen opvolgde. Hij kreeg levenslang voor de moord op 22 mensen, maar president Nixon gaf na drie dagen opdracht om hem vrij te laten. Uiteindelijk had hij drie jaar huisarrest. Tegen 25 andere militairen werd ook een aanklacht ingediend, maar geen van hen werd veroordeeld."
#MyLai #Vietnam #WarCrimes #Nixon #NeverForget https://nos.nl/artikel/2530856-vietnamveteraan-die-bloedbad-van-my-lai-leidde-overleden
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È morto, da uomo libero, dopo aver trascorso 3 anni agli arresti domiciliari William Calley, il responsabile del massacro di #MyLai. E noi dovremmo stupirci che 2 cittadini statunitensi riconosciuti colpevoli dell'omicidio di un carabiniere vengano estradati dopo 3 anni di carcere in Italia? https://www.storicang.it/a/il-massacro-di-my-lai_16160
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Gifted article, no paywall [The Washington Post]: William Calley, Army officer and face of My Lai Massacre, is dead at 80 He was the only person convicted in connection with the atrocity, in which American troops killed hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese men, women and children.
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Today, word came out that William Calley died back on April 28.
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2. è una delle ragioni per cui ho grande ammirazione per #SeymourHersh: da #MyLai ad #AbuGhraib, da #Kissinger a #Guantanamo, è un giornalista che protegge l'opinione pubblica dai peggiori istinti dello Stato
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Art's job can be the fearless chase towards liberation. To become free of the death machine of Amerika - such awakens us to art's call here within #MyLai
https://kronosquartet.bandcamp.com/album/m-lai
