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."

#MyLai

#RachelCorrie died 23 years ago today, on 16 March 2003. She was crushed by an #Israeli army bulldozer, when trying to prevent the demolition of a house in #Rafah, #Gaza, owned by a #Palestinian doctor and his family. Rachel was 23-years-old. See http://rachelcorriefoundation.org

#JimPage's song "I'd rather be dancing" is based on letters Rachel wrote home to her parents before Israelis murdered her: https://youtu.be/QxazIsQE1XE

Rachel placed her body between civilians and killers. That's what a war hero is.

Shout out to that time the U.N. Called a vote to make food a human right and only two countries voted no……Yes on genocide and war, No on food for all - it all makes sense now……

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #immigration #farageisalyingsackshit #ReformAreUseless #farageisaracist #farageisatraitor #israel #iran #iranwar #trump #DonaldTrump #TrumpIsAPedo #operationepsteinfury #sendbarron

„Ein breites Bündnis aus 200 Kläger*innen hat vor dem Bayerischen #Verfassungsgerichtshof einen bedeutenden Teilerfolg erzielt. Das Gericht erklärte einen zentralen Passus des Gesetzes zur Förderung der #Bundeswehr in #Bayern für verfassungswidrig. Damit wurde der gesetzliche Versuch gestoppt, #Hochschulen zur Zusammenarbeit mit Einrichtungen der Bundeswehr zu verpflichten – ein Eingriff, der nach Auffassung des Gerichts gegen die #Wissenschaftsfreiheit sowie gegen grundlegende rechtsstaatliche Prinzipien verstößt.“

https://www.gew-bayern.de/presse/detailseite/verfassungsgericht-stoppt-zwang-zur-bundeswehr-kooperation-an-hochschulen

If only Carney had the courage to say something like this on behalf of Canadians...

Prime Minister Sanchez of Spain:
“Because the question is not whether or not we are in favour of the Ayatollahs. No one is. Certainly not the Spanish people and of course not the Spanish government. The question, rather, is whether or not, we are on the side of international law and therefore, of peace.”

instead we get waffling and backtracking.

#IranUSAIsraelWar #España #Spain #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli