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The Good Guys: My Lai Massacre, Vietnam

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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The Meli Massacre

The meli massacre was episodic. It lasted hours. A soldier named allan boyce stabbed an old in the back with a knife, then shot him while he writhed on the ground. Private denis conty pulled a young mother aside, aimed a gun at her four year old son's head and forced the woman to perform oral sex on him. In this group of 50 people, there were kids and infants who hadn't been hit, and were just sitting there crying or dazed, looking up at their dead parents. At this point, lieutenant william calley raised m 16, coldly and methodically picked off the children by one soldiers until they had gone silent.

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