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The Sơn Thắng massacre (/ sənˈtæŋ / sən-TANG, Vietnamese: [ʂəːŋ˧˧ tʰaŋ˦˧˥]) was a massacre conducted by the United States Marine Corps on 19 February 1970, in which seven women and nine children were killed. The Marines reported the civilians killed as being Vietcong (VC) killed in a firefight. [1] These incidents were ...
US Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on 1 July 1999. Numerous war crimes were committed by all sides during the Kosovo War, which lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. According to Human Rights Watch, the vast majority of abuses were ...
The incident on Hill 192 refers to the kidnapping, gang rape, and murder of Phan Thi Mao, a young Vietnamese woman, [1] on November 19, 1966 [2] by an American squad during the Vietnam War. [1] Although news of the incident reached the U.S. shortly after the soldiers' trials, [3] the story gained widespread notoriety through Daniel Lang's 1969 ...
The My Lai massacre (/ miː laɪ / mee ly; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a war crime committed by the United States Army on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1] At least 347 and up to 504 ...
The incident on Hill 192 refers to the kidnapping, gang rape, and murder of Phan Thi Mao, a young Vietnamese woman [23]: 1 by an American squad during the Vietnam War [23]: 1 on 19 November 1966. [23]: 2 The woman was raped by the soldiers, after which she was stabbed and shot in the head. [24]
A Vietnamese woman weeps over the body of her husband, one of the Vietnamese Army casualties. South Korean Tiger Division nurses, September 1968. Women in the Vietnam War were active in a large variety of roles, making significant impacts on the War and with the War having significant impacts on them. [1][2][3] Several million Vietnamese women ...
Kosovo 16 Albanians Serbian civilians On 17 and 18 March 2004, a wave of violent riots swept through Kosovo, 16 Serbs and 11 Albanians were killed during the unrest. Over 935 Serbian houses and 35 Churches were burned and destroyed. Over 4000 Serbs were expelled from Kosovo. Talinoc Killings: 6 July 2012 Talinoc i Muhaxhirëve: 2 Serbian civilians
War crimes witnesses to the Kosovo War (1998–99) have been victims to threats, violence, and murder. Those who spoke out about the abuses of their side in the conflict were seen as traitors to their community, and therefore, only a few became witnesses in war crime trials. [1] The international institutions ICTY, UNMIK and EULEX, and national ...