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Hanoi and US try to forget âwar crimesâ of VN war, but Morons at BBC keep bringing it back up
EFL BBCVietnam has played down new reports of a massacre by US soldiers in the Vietnam War by saying it wants to put the conflict behind it. - Hem, the BBC has used the pegorative term masacre. Lets review the rest of the article for some hard facts. A Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Le Dung, was responding to reports in the Toledo Blade newspaper that an elite unit of US soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed villagers in Vietnamâs Central Highlands over seven months in 1967. Le Dung said Vietnam did not want to dwell on the past, and better bilateral relations were the best way to solve its consequences. The statement came as Hanoi announced the first visit by a Vietnamese Defence Minister to the United States. We advocate strengthening mutual understanding... that is the basis to solve the consequences left by the past. The Toledo Blade newspaper reported that soldiers from the Tiger Force unit of the US Armyâs 101st Airborne Division had admitted to a series of atrocities, including wearing severed ears as trophies and dropping grenades into bunkers where children and women were taking refuge. The Toledo Blade said that the US army conducted a four year investigation into the allegations, but it was closed in 1975 and never made public. The US Defence Department said the case was more than 30 years old and there was no new or compelling evidence to justify reopening it. Pham Van Tra said his US trip would help enhance military links between the two countries and allow issues to be discussed like the effects of Agent Orange, the defoliant used by the US military to destroy the jungle in which Vietnamese forces operated. Military links have lagged behind growing cooperation between the two countries in other areas. They restored diplomatic ties in 1995 and signed a trade agreement which took effect in December 2001. My 7th grade English teacher told my older brother he worked with a sniper that collected ears. Kind of attrocious. Why the BBC would walk past the mass graves in Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, Rawanda, NK ... to get to some guy in Toledo who might have worn a necklass made of human ears 30 years ago I donât know. Here is my Vietnam War summary with respect to war crimes - People wearing civilian clothes shot at us, we killed a bunch of civilians, John McCain got the @#$% kicked out of him in the Hanoi Hilton. We left. North Vietnam invaded the South and exterminated a whole host of their own citizens. We decide to do better the next time. Now stop combing the Toledo Blade in hopes of convening a war crimes trial in the Hague. Posted by: Super Hose 2003-10-21 |
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