Good afternoon, I just had to explain to someone that the Geneva Convention actually does say you can’t target a civilian building on a hunch
WO1 Hugh Thompson Jr. (1943-2006) testifies in the court martial against 2LT William Calley for war crimes, Fort Benning, Georgia. Nov 1970. Thompson was an OH-23 helicopter pilot who put his helicopter between Vietnamese civilians and US Army soldiers to prevent further slaughter at My Lai. Unfortunately, despite conviction, Calley got off extremely lightly, barely living a year behind bars. His conviction was overturned in 1974, and he lived the rest of his life a freeman.
Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. declared that Calley and his associates should have been hanged, drawn, and quartered, with their remains placed “at the gates of Fort Benning, at the Infantry School, as a reminder to those who pass under it of what an infantry officer ought to be.”
WO1 Hugh Thompson Jr. (1943-2006) testifies in the court martial against 2LT William Calley for war crimes, Fort Benning, Georgia. Nov 1970. Thompson was an OH-23 helicopter pilot who put his helicopter between Vietnamese civilians and US Army soldiers to prevent further slaughter at My Lai. Unfortunately, despite conviction, Calley got off extremely lightly, barely living a year behind bars. His conviction was overturned in 1974, and he lived the rest of his life a freeman.
Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. declared that Calley and his associates should have been hanged, drawn, and quartered, with their remains placed “at the gates of Fort Benning, at the Infantry School, as a reminder to those who pass under it of what an infantry officer ought to be.”