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The My Lai massacre was the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, almost entirely civilians, most of them women and children, conducted by U.S. soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (American) Infantry Division, on 16 March 1968.
This article lists and summarizes the war crimes that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.. Since many war crimes are not prosecuted (due to lack of political will, lack of effective procedures, or other practical and political reasons), [better source needed] historians and lawyers will frequently make a serious case in order to prove that ...
Pages in category "Iraq War crimes by the United States" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
August 1, 2004, 2004 Iraq churches attacks, Baghdad and Mosul; 12 died, 71 injured. October 24, 2004 Massacre of New Iraqi Army recruits by Sunni insurgents, 49 killed. November 19, 2005 Haditha killings, Haditha 24 Iraqi civilians were killed by United States Marines. March 12, 2006 Mahmudiyah killings on by U.S. Army soldiers, 4 killed.
I. Iran–Iraq War crimes (1 C, 5 P) War crimes in the Iraqi conflict (2003–present) (9 C)
During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical and psychological torture, and rape, as well as the killing of ...
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) reported in February 2006 that he had received 240 communications in connection with the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 which alleged that various war crimes had been committed. The overwhelming majority of these communications came from individuals and groups within the United States and ...
The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were a series of war crimes committed by five U.S. Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family on March 12, 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village ...