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<span>Mutilation of Japanese war dead</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-War_rape" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#War_rape"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.2</span> <span>War rape</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-War_rape-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-European_theater" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#European_theater"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>European theater</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-European_theater-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Rape" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rape"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.1</span> <span>Rape</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rape-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Human_experimentation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Human_experimentation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Human experimentation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Human_experimentation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Korean_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Korean_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Korean War</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Korean_War-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Korean War subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Korean_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Bombing_of_North_Korea" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bombing_of_North_Korea"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Bombing of North Korea</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bombing_of_North_Korea-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-No_Gun_Ri_massacre" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#No_Gun_Ri_massacre"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>No Gun Ri massacre</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-No_Gun_Ri_massacre-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Project_Artichoke" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Project_Artichoke"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Project Artichoke</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Project_Artichoke-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Vietnam_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Vietnam_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Vietnam War</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Vietnam_War-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Vietnam War subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Vietnam_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-My_Lai_Massacre" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#My_Lai_Massacre"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>My Lai Massacre</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-My_Lai_Massacre-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Operation_Speedy_Express" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Operation_Speedy_Express"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Operation Speedy Express</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Operation_Speedy_Express-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Phoenix_Program" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Phoenix_Program"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Phoenix Program</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Phoenix_Program-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tiger_Force" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tiger_Force"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4</span> <span>Tiger Force</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tiger_Force-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_incidents" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_incidents"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5</span> <span>Other incidents</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_incidents-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gulf_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gulf_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Gulf War</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gulf_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-War_on_Terror" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#War_on_Terror"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>War on Terror</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-War_on_Terror-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle War on Terror subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-War_on_Terror-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Command_responsibility" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Command_responsibility"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Command responsibility</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Command_responsibility-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Iraq_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iraq_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Iraq War</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Iraq_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Further reading subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-General" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#General"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.1</span> <span>General</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-General-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_nation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_nation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12.2</span> <span>By nation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_nation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsverbrechen_der_Vereinigten_Staaten" title="Kriegsverbrechen der Vereinigten Staaten – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Kriegsverbrechen der Vereinigten Staaten" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%ADmenes_de_guerra_de_Estados_Unidos" title="Crímenes de guerra de Estados Unidos – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Crímenes de guerra de Estados Unidos" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87_%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7" title="جنایات جنگی ایالات متحده آمریکا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جنایات جنگی ایالات متحده آمریکا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_de_guerre_des_%C3%89tats-Unis" title="Crimes de guerre des États-Unis – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Crimes de guerre des États-Unis" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EA%B5%AD%EC%9D%B4_%EC%A0%80%EC%A7%80%EB%A5%B8_%EC%A0%84%EC%9F%81_%EB%B2%94%EC%A3%84" title="미국이 저지른 전쟁 범죄 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="미국이 저지른 전쟁 범죄" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimini_di_guerra_statunitensi_(seconda_guerra_mondiale)" title="Crimini di guerra statunitensi (seconda guerra mondiale) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Crimini di guerra statunitensi (seconda guerra mondiale)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%9D%D0%A3-%D1%8B%D0%BD_%D1%86%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%B3%D1%8D%D0%BC%D1%82_%D1%85%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B3%D2%AF%D2%AF%D0%B4" title="АНУ-ын цэргийн гэмт хэргүүд – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="АНУ-ын цэргийн гэмт хэргүүд" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%99%E1%80%B1%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AD%E1%80%80%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%95%E1%80%BC%E1%80%8A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%91%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%85%E1%80%AF%E1%81%8F_%E1%80%85%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC%E1%80%87%E1%80%9D%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%80%99%E1%80%BE%E1%80%AF%E1%80%99%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8" title="အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု၏ စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုများ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု၏ စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုများ" 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Forces">United States Armed Forces</a> and its members have violated the <a href="/wiki/Law_of_war" title="Law of war">law of war</a> after the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907" title="Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907">Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907</a> and the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Conventions" title="Geneva Conventions">Geneva Conventions</a>. The United States prosecutes offenders through the <a href="/wiki/War_Crimes_Act_of_1996" title="War Crimes Act of 1996">War Crimes Act of 1996</a> as well as through articles in the <a href="/wiki/Uniform_Code_of_Military_Justice" title="Uniform Code of Military Justice">Uniform Code of Military Justice</a>. The United States signed the 1999 <a href="/wiki/Rome_Statute" title="Rome Statute">Rome Statute</a> but it never ratified the treaty, <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court#United_States_government" title="International Criminal Court">taking the position</a> that the <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a> (ICC) lacks fundamental <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_powers" title="Separation of powers">checks and balances</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act" title="American Service-Members' Protection Act">American Service-Members' Protection Act</a> of 2002 further limited US involvement with the ICC. The ICC reserves the right of states to prosecute war crimes, and the ICC can only proceed with prosecution of crimes when states do not have willingness or effective and reliable processes to investigate for themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The United States says that it has investigated many of the accusations alleged by the ICC prosecutors as having occurred in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, and thus does not accept ICC jurisdiction over its nationals.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This article contains a chronological list of incidents in the <a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States" title="Military history of the United States">military history of the United States</a> in which <a href="/wiki/War_crime" title="War crime">war crimes</a> occurred, including the <a href="/wiki/Summary_execution" title="Summary execution">summary execution</a> of captured <a href="/wiki/Enemy" title="Enemy">enemy</a> <a href="/wiki/Combatants" class="mw-redirect" title="Combatants">combatants</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Prisoner_abuse" title="Prisoner abuse">mistreatment of prisoners</a> during <a href="/wiki/Interrogation" title="Interrogation">interrogation</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Torture_and_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Torture and the United States">use of torture</a>, the use of violence against <a href="/wiki/Civilians" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilians">civilians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Non-combatants" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-combatants">non-combatants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a>, and the unnecessary destruction of civilian property. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Definition">Definition</h2></div> <p><a href="/wiki/War_crimes" class="mw-redirect" title="War crimes">War crimes</a> are defined as acts which violate the <a href="/wiki/Laws_and_customs_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws and customs of war">laws and customs of war</a> established by the <a href="/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907" title="Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907">Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907</a>, or acts that are grave breaches of the <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Conventions" title="Geneva Conventions">Geneva Conventions</a> and <a href="/wiki/Protocol_I" title="Protocol I">Additional Protocol I</a> and <a href="/wiki/Protocol_II" title="Protocol II">Additional Protocol II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Solis2010_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Solis2010-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention" title="Fourth Geneva Convention">Fourth Geneva Convention</a> of 1949 extends the protection of <a href="/wiki/Civilians" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilians">civilians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prisoners_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoners of war">prisoners of war</a> during <a href="/wiki/Military_occupation" title="Military occupation">military occupation</a>, even in the case where there is no armed resistance, for the period of one year after the end of hostilities, although the occupying power should be bound to several provisions of the convention as long as "such Power exercises the functions of government in such territory."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philippines">Philippines</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War" title="Philippine–American War">Philippine–American War</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Killings_of_civilians">Killings of civilians</h3></div><p> During the <a href="/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War" title="Philippine–American War">Philippine–American War</a> (1899–1913), numerous war crimes were committed by the U.S. military against Filipino civilians. American soldiers and other witnesses sent letters home which described some of these atrocities; for example, In 1902, the Manila correspondent of the <i><a href="/wiki/Public_Ledger_(Philadelphia)" title="Public Ledger (Philadelphia)">Philadelphia Ledger</a></i> wrote:<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The present war is no bloodless, <a href="/wiki/Opera_bouffe" class="mw-redirect" title="Opera bouffe">opera bouffe</a> engagement; our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners and captives, active insurgents and suspected people from lads of ten up, the idea prevailing that the Filipino as such was little better than a dog...<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZinn2003230_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZinn2003230-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>In an editorial written by Clinton Coulter, published in the San Francisco Call in July 1899, he wrote that an "officer of the Oregon regiment", while being entertained at his home, told Colter that "Americans immediately upon entering a captured village would proceed to ransack every house, church, and even hold up the natives and procure everything of value, also that all the natives discovered coming toward the lines with a flag of truce were shot down."<sup id="cite_ref-Call18990801_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Call18990801-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1899, the <a href="/wiki/American_Anti-Imperialist_League" title="American Anti-Imperialist League">American Anti-Imperialist League</a> published a pamphlet of letters which documented abuses against civilians by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A letter of a soldier from New York reported: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The town of Titatia was surrendered to us a few days ago, and two companies occupy the same. Last night one of our boys was found shot and his stomach cut open. Immediately orders were received from General Wheaton to burn the town and kill every native in sight; which was done to a finish. About 1,000 men, women and children were reported killed. I am probably growing hard-hearted, for I am in my glory when I can sight my gun on some dark skin and pull the trigger.<sup id="cite_ref-Miller_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Corporal Sam Gillis stated: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We make everyone get into his house by seven p.m., and we only tell a man once. If he refuses we shoot him. We killed over 300 natives the first night. They tried to set the town on fire. If they fire a shot from the house we burn the house down and every house near it, and shoot the natives, so they are pretty quiet in town now.<sup id="cite_ref-Miller_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Samar_Campaign">Samar Campaign</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Pacification_of_Samar" title="Pacification of Samar">Pacification of Samar</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Editorial_cartoon_about_Jacob_Smith%27s_retaliation_for_Balangiga.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Editorial_cartoon_about_Jacob_Smith%27s_retaliation_for_Balangiga.PNG/220px-Editorial_cartoon_about_Jacob_Smith%27s_retaliation_for_Balangiga.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Editorial_cartoon_about_Jacob_Smith%27s_retaliation_for_Balangiga.PNG/330px-Editorial_cartoon_about_Jacob_Smith%27s_retaliation_for_Balangiga.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Editorial_cartoon_about_Jacob_Smith%27s_retaliation_for_Balangiga.PNG/440px-Editorial_cartoon_about_Jacob_Smith%27s_retaliation_for_Balangiga.PNG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1180" /></a><figcaption>General <a href="/wiki/Jacob_H._Smith" title="Jacob H. Smith">Jacob H. Smith</a>'s infamous order "<i>Kill Everyone Over Ten</i>" was the caption in the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Journal">New York Journal</a></i> cartoon on 5 May 1902. The Old Glory draped an American shield on which a vulture replaced the bald eagle. The caption at the bottom proclaimed, "<i>Criminals Because They Were Born Ten Years Before We Took the Philippines</i>".</figcaption></figure> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Pacification_of_Samar" title="Pacification of Samar">Pacification of Samar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigadier General">Brigadier General</a> <a href="/wiki/Jacob_H._Smith" title="Jacob H. Smith">Jacob H. Smith</a> ordered Major <a href="/wiki/Littleton_Waller" title="Littleton Waller">Littleton Waller</a>, commanding officer of a battalion of 315 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">U.S. Marines</a> assigned to Smith's forces in Samar, to kill all persons "who are capable of bearing arms in actual hostilities" over the age of ten years old.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-melshen_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-melshen-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-miller_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The widespread massacre of Filipino civilians followed as American columns marched across the island. All food and all trade to Samar were cut off, and the widespread destruction of homes, crops, and draft animals occurred, with the intention of starving the Filipino revolutionaries and the civilian populace into submission. In a report, Waller stated that over an eleven-day period, his men burned 255 dwellings, shot 13 <a href="/wiki/Carabao" title="Carabao">carabaos</a>, and killed 39 people.<sup id="cite_ref-nebrida_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nebrida-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An exhaustive research made by a British writer in the 1990s put the figure at about 2,500 dead.<sup id="cite_ref-dumindin_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dumindin-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a consequence of his order in Samar, Smith became known as "Howling Wilderness Smith".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 1902, Smith was convicted at his court-martial in the United States not for murder or other war crimes, but for "conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline". The court-martial found him guilty and sentenced him "to be admonished by the reviewing authority." To appease outrage by American anti-imperialists, Smith was forced to retire.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Concentration_camps">Concentration camps</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Beriberi_USNLM.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/Beriberi_USNLM.jpg/220px-Beriberi_USNLM.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="310" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/Beriberi_USNLM.jpg/330px-Beriberi_USNLM.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/Beriberi_USNLM.jpg/440px-Beriberi_USNLM.jpg 2x" data-file-width="727" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>A man from <a href="/wiki/Batangas" title="Batangas">Batangas</a> riddled with <a href="/wiki/Beriberi" class="mw-redirect" title="Beriberi">beriberi</a> contracted in a U.S. Army concentration camp, circa 1902</figcaption></figure> <p>In late 1901, brigadier general <a href="/wiki/James_Franklin_Bell" class="mw-redirect" title="James Franklin Bell">James Franklin Bell</a> took command of American operations in <a href="/wiki/Batangas" title="Batangas">Batangas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Laguna_(province)" title="Laguna (province)">Laguna</a> provinces. In response to Filipino General <a href="/wiki/Miguel_Malvar" title="Miguel Malvar">Miguel Malvar's</a> guerrilla warfare tactics, Bell employed <a href="/wiki/Counter-insurgency#Tactics" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-insurgency">counterinsurgency tactics</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Zones of protection" were established,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and civilians were given identification papers and forced into concentration camps (called <i>reconcentrados</i>) which were surrounded by <a href="/wiki/Free-fire_zone" title="Free-fire zone">free-fire zones</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an attempt to counter negative reception in America, Colonel <a href="/wiki/Arthur_L._Wagner" title="Arthur L. Wagner">Arthur Wagner</a>, the US Army's chief public relations officer, insisted General Bell's tactics intended to "protect friendly natives from the insurgents, and assure them an adequate food supply" while teaching them "proper sanitary standards". Wagner's assertion was undermined by a letter from a commander of one of the camps, who described them as "<a href="/wiki/Suburb" title="Suburb">suburbs</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Civilians interred in the camps fell ill with a multitude of diseases, including <a href="/wiki/Cholera" title="Cholera">cholera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beriberi" class="mw-redirect" title="Beriberi">beriberi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bubonic_plague" title="Bubonic plague">bubonic plague</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Civilians also became subject to a <a href="/wiki/Curfew" title="Curfew">curfew</a>, after which all persons found outside of camps without identification could be shot on sight. Many men were rounded up for questioning, tortured, and summarily executed. Methods of torture such as <a href="/wiki/Waterboarding" title="Waterboarding">waterboarding</a> were frequently employed during interrogation, and entire villages were burned or otherwise destroyed. </p><p>Between January and April 1902, 8,350 people died in the camps out of a population of 298,000. Some camps experienced mortality rates as high as 20 percent. According to American historian <a href="/wiki/Andrea_Pitzer" title="Andrea Pitzer">Andrea Pitzer</a>, Bell's reconcentration policy was "directly responsible" for over 11,000 deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some have claimed that Bell's tactics constituted war crimes, and accused Bell of waging a <a href="/wiki/War_of_extermination" class="mw-redirect" title="War of extermination">war of extermination</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Moro_Crater_Massacre">Moro Crater Massacre</h3></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bud_Dajo_Massacre_Trench_on_Jolo_Island_c1906.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Bud_Dajo_Massacre_Trench_on_Jolo_Island_c1906.png/220px-Bud_Dajo_Massacre_Trench_on_Jolo_Island_c1906.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Bud_Dajo_Massacre_Trench_on_Jolo_Island_c1906.png/330px-Bud_Dajo_Massacre_Trench_on_Jolo_Island_c1906.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Bud_Dajo_Massacre_Trench_on_Jolo_Island_c1906.png/440px-Bud_Dajo_Massacre_Trench_on_Jolo_Island_c1906.png 2x" data-file-width="1525" data-file-height="1035" /></a><figcaption>The aftermath of the First Battle of Bud Dajo, in which over 800 Moros were killed, including women and children</figcaption></figure><p>During the <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bud_Dajo" title="First Battle of Bud Dajo">First Battle of Bud Dajo</a> on 5–8, March, 1906, General <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Wood" title="Leonard Wood">Leonard Wood</a> ordered an assault by U.S. Marines on an encampment of <a href="/wiki/Moro_people" title="Moro people">Moros</a> in the Bud Dajo crater, which was populated by 800 to 1,000 <a href="/wiki/Taus%C5%ABg_people" title="Tausūg people">Tausug</a> villagers. During the assault, Marines bombarded the crater with heavy artillery and machine-gun fire. By the end of the battle, only six Moros survived, with up to 99% of the villagers, much of them women and children, having been wiped out.<sup id="cite_ref-bakbakan1_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bakbakan1-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite being an American victory, it was a massive public-relations disaster, and was criticized by numerous anti-imperialists at home. Author <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a> wrote of the massacre: “In what way was it a battle? It has no resemblance to a battle... We cleaned up our four days’ work and made it complete by butchering these helpless people.”<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Major Hugh Scott denounced General Wood's actions, stating that those who had fled to the crater were peaceful villagers and that they had, in Scott’s words, “declared they had no intention of fighting, ran up there only in fright, and had some crops planted and desired to cultivate them.”<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>General Wood responded to the public outcry by claiming that Moro fighters had used women and children as living shields during the assault, and that some women had dressed as men to join the fight.<sup id="cite_ref-lane1978p129_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lane1978p129-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Philippine Governor-General <a href="/wiki/Henry_Clay_Ide" title="Henry Clay Ide">Henry Clay Ide</a>, however, gave a differing explanation, claiming that the high civilian casualties were collateral damage that resulted from the heavy artillery fire; these conflicting explanations only brought accusations of a cover-up, further adding to the criticism. According to historian Joshua Gedacht, the heavy civilian death toll can be attributed to indiscriminate machine-gun fire from a <a href="/wiki/Maxim_gun" title="Maxim gun">Maxim gun</a> that had been placed to sweep the edge of the crater.<sup id="cite_ref-:0a_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0a-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Haiti">Haiti</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti#Human_rights_abuses" title="United States occupation of Haiti">United States occupation of Haiti § Human rights abuses</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Merced_Sun-Star_-_Killing_of_Haitians_is_Admitted.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Merced_Sun-Star_-_Killing_of_Haitians_is_Admitted.jpg/170px-Merced_Sun-Star_-_Killing_of_Haitians_is_Admitted.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Merced_Sun-Star_-_Killing_of_Haitians_is_Admitted.jpg/255px-Merced_Sun-Star_-_Killing_of_Haitians_is_Admitted.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Merced_Sun-Star_-_Killing_of_Haitians_is_Admitted.jpg/340px-Merced_Sun-Star_-_Killing_of_Haitians_is_Admitted.jpg 2x" data-file-width="355" data-file-height="533" /></a><figcaption>An October 1921 article from the <i><a href="/wiki/Merced_Sun-Star" title="Merced Sun-Star">Merced Sun-Star</a></i> discussing killings of Haitians by U.S. commanded Haitian gendarmerie</figcaption></figure> <p>During the First (1915) and Second (1918–1920) Caco Wars which were both waged during the <a href="/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti" title="United States occupation of Haiti">United States occupation of Haiti</a> (1915–1934), human rights abuses were committed against the native Haitian population.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Overall, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marine Corps</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gendarmerie_of_Haiti" title="Gendarmerie of Haiti">Haitian gendarmerie</a> killed several thousand Haitians during the rebellions between 1915 and 1920, though the exact death toll is unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During Senate hearings in 1921, the Commandant of the Marine Corps reported that, in 20 months of conflict, 2,250 Haitian rebels had been killed. However, in a report to the Secretary of the Navy, he reported a higher death toll of 3,250.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Haitian historian <a href="/wiki/Roger_Gaillard_(historian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger Gaillard (historian)">Roger Gaillard</a>, estimated that in total, including rebel combatants and civilians, at least 15,000 Haitians were killed during the occupation from 1915 to 1934.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to American anthropologist <a href="/wiki/Paul_Farmer" title="Paul Farmer">Paul Farmer</a>, the higher estimates are not accepted by most historians outside Haiti.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mass_killing" title="Mass killing">Mass killings</a> of civilians were allegedly committed by United States Marines and the Haitian gendarmerie.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_33-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Haitian historian <a href="/wiki/Roger_Gaillard_(historian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger Gaillard (historian)">Roger Gaillard</a>, human rights abuses included <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lynchings" class="mw-redirect" title="Lynchings">lynchings</a>, summary executions, burning villages and <a href="/wiki/Death_by_burning" title="Death by burning">deaths by burning</a>. Internal documents of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> justified the killing of women and children, describing them as "auxiliaries" of the rebels. A private memorandum of the Secretary of the Navy criticized "indiscriminate killings against natives". Some American officers who were responsible for acts of violence were given <a href="/wiki/Haitian_Creole" title="Haitian Creole">Haitian Creole</a> names including "Linx" for Commandant Freeman Lang and "Ouiliyanm" for Lieutenant Lee Williams. According to American journalist H.J. Seligman, Marines practiced "bumping off Gooks", which was the shooting of civilians in a manner similar to <a href="/wiki/Killing_for_sport" class="mw-redirect" title="Killing for sport">killing for sport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_33-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the Second <a href="/wiki/Caco_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Caco War">Caco War</a> of 1918–1919, many Caco prisoners were <a href="/wiki/Summary_executions" class="mw-redirect" title="Summary executions">summarily executed</a> by Marines and the gendarmerie on orders from their superiors.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_33-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 4 June 1916, Marines executed caco General Mizrael Codio and ten others after they were captured in <a href="/wiki/Fonds-Verrettes" title="Fonds-Verrettes">Fonds-Verrettes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_33-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Hinche" title="Hinche">Hinche</a> in January 1919, Captain Ernest Lavoie of the gendarmerie allegedly ordered the killing of nineteen captured caco rebels according to American officers, though no charges were filed against him due to no physical evidence of the killing being presented.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_33-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The torture of rebels and civilians suspected of rebelling against the United States was commonly practiced by Marines. Some of the torture methods used included the use of <a href="/wiki/Water_cure_(torture)" title="Water cure (torture)">water cure</a>, hanging prisoners by their genitals, and <i>ceps</i>, which involved pushing both sides of the tibia with the butts of two rifles.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_33-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="World_War_II">World War II</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Allied_war_crimes_during_World_War_II#United_States" title="Allied war crimes during World War II">Allied war crimes during World War II § United States</a>, and <a href="/wiki/War_crimes_in_World_War_II#Crimes_perpetrated_by_the_United_States" title="War crimes in World War II">War crimes in World War II § Crimes perpetrated by the United States</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pacific_theater">Pacific theater</h3></div> <p>On 26 January 1943, the submarine <a href="/wiki/USS_Wahoo_(SS-238)" title="USS Wahoo (SS-238)">USS <i>Wahoo</i></a> fired on survivors in lifeboats from the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Japanese Army</a> transport ship <i><a href="/wiki/Japanese_transport_ship_Buyo_Maru_(1919)" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese transport ship Buyo Maru (1919)">Buyo Maru</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Vice_Admiral_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice Admiral (United States)">Vice Admiral</a> <a href="/wiki/Charles_A._Lockwood" title="Charles A. Lockwood">Charles A. Lockwood</a> asserted that the survivors were <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Japanese soldiers</a> who had turned machine-gun and rifle fire on the <i>Wahoo</i> after it surfaced, and that such resistance was common in <a href="/wiki/Submarine_warfare" title="Submarine warfare">submarine warfare</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lockwood_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lockwood-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the submarine's executive officer, the fire was intended to force the Japanese soldiers to abandon their boats and none of them were deliberately targeted.<sup id="cite_ref-O'Kane_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Kane-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historian Clay Blair stated that the submarine's crew fired first and the shipwrecked survivors returned fire with handguns.<sup id="cite_ref-Blair_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blair-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The survivors were later determined to have included Allied POWs of the <a href="/wiki/British_Indian_Army" title="British Indian Army">British Indian Army</a>'s 2nd Battalion, <a href="/wiki/16th_Punjab_Regiment" title="16th Punjab Regiment">16th Punjab Regiment</a>, who were guarded by Japanese Army Forces from the 26th Field Ordnance Depot.<sup id="cite_ref-holwitt_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holwitt-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DeRose_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeRose-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 287–288">: 287–288 </span></sup> Of 1,126 men originally aboard <i>Buyo Maru</i>, 195 Indians and 87 Japanese died, some killed during the torpedoing of the ship and some killed by the shootings afterwards.<sup id="cite_ref-holwitt_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holwitt-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DeRose_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeRose-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 77, 94">: 77, 94 </span></sup> </p><p>During and after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea" title="Battle of the Bismarck Sea">Battle of the Bismarck Sea</a> (3–5 March 1943), U.S. <a href="/wiki/PT_boats" class="mw-redirect" title="PT boats">PT boats</a> and Allied aircraft attacked Japanese rescue vessels as well as approximately 1,000 survivors from eight sunken Japanese troop transport ships.<sup id="cite_ref-Gillison_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gillison-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The stated justification was that the Japanese personnel were close to their military destination and would be promptly returned to service in the battle.<sup id="cite_ref-Gillison_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gillison-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of the Allied aircrew accepted the attacks as necessary, while others were sickened.<sup id="cite_ref-Johnston_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Johnston-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>American servicemen in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific War</a> deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard Aldrich, a professor of history at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nottingham" title="University of Nottingham">University of Nottingham</a>. Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States and <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> soldiers, wherein it was stated that they sometimes massacred prisoners of war.<sup id="cite_ref-autoref2_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autoref2-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to John Dower, in "many instances ... Japanese who did become prisoners were killed on the spot or <i>en route</i> to prison compounds."<sup id="cite_ref-autoref2_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autoref2-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Professor Aldrich, it was common practice for U.S. troops not to take prisoners.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His analysis is supported by British historian <a href="/wiki/Niall_Ferguson" title="Niall Ferguson">Niall Ferguson</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Ferguson_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ferguson-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who also says that, in 1943, "a secret [U.S.] intelligence report noted that only the promise of ice cream and three days leave would ... induce American troops not to kill surrendering Japanese."<sup id="cite_ref-Ferguson_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ferguson-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 150">: 150 </span></sup> </p><p>Ferguson states that such practices played a role in the ratio of Japanese prisoners to dead being 1:100 in late 1944. That same year, efforts were taken by Allied high commanders to suppress "take no prisoners" attitudes<sup id="cite_ref-Ferguson_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ferguson-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 150">: 150 </span></sup> among their personnel (because it hampered intelligence gathering), and to encourage Japanese soldiers to surrender. Ferguson adds that measures by Allied commanders to improve the ratio of Japanese prisoners to Japanese dead resulted in it reaching 1:7, by mid-1945. Nevertheless, "taking no prisoners" was still "standard practice" among U.S. troops at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" title="Battle of Okinawa">Battle of Okinawa</a>, in April–June 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Ferguson_45-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ferguson-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 181">: 181 </span></sup> Ferguson also suggests that "it was not only the fear of disciplinary action or of dishonor that deterred German and Japanese soldiers from surrendering. More important for most soldiers was the perception that prisoners would be killed by the enemy anyway, and so one might as well fight on."<sup id="cite_ref-Ferguson_45-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ferguson-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 176">: 176 </span></sup> </p><p>Ulrich Straus, a U.S. <a href="/wiki/Japanology" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanology">Japanologist</a>, suggests that Allied troops on the front line intensely hated Japanese military personnel and were "not easily persuaded" to take or protect prisoners, because they believed that Allied personnel who surrendered got "no mercy" from the Japanese.<sup id="cite_ref-Ulrich-Straus_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ulrich-Straus-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 116">: 116 </span></sup> Allied troops were told that Japanese soldiers were inclined to <a href="/wiki/Perfidy" title="Perfidy">feign surrender in order to make surprise attacks</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Ulrich-Straus_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ulrich-Straus-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 116">: 116 </span></sup> a practice which was outlawed by the <a href="/wiki/Hague_Convention_of_1907" class="mw-redirect" title="Hague Convention of 1907">Hague Convention of 1907</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Therefore, according to Straus, "Senior officers opposed the taking of prisoners on the grounds that it needlessly exposed American troops to risks ..."<sup id="cite_ref-Ulrich-Straus_46-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ulrich-Straus-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 116">: 116 </span></sup> When prisoners were taken at the <a href="/wiki/Guadalcanal_campaign" title="Guadalcanal campaign">Guadalcanal campaign</a>, Army interrogator Captain Burden noted that many times POWs were shot during transport because "it was too much bother to take [them] in".<sup id="cite_ref-Ulrich-Straus_46-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ulrich-Straus-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 117">: 117 </span></sup> </p><p>U.S. historian James J. Weingartner attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. <a href="/wiki/POW_camps" class="mw-redirect" title="POW camps">prisoner of war compounds</a> to two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or 'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war."<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 55">: 55 </span></sup> The latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians—as <i><a href="/wiki/Untermensch" title="Untermensch">Untermenschen</a></i> (i.e., "subhuman")."<sup id="cite_ref-Ferguson_45-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ferguson-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 182">: 182 </span></sup> Indeed, anti-Japanese racism was commonplace within the American military due, in part, to "yellow enemy" propaganda as well their experiences of Japanese brutality in combat; a poll of American soldiers from 1943 found that half of the respondents believed that the extermination of all Japanese people would be necessary to achieve peace.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hatred for the Japanese was far more extensive than hatred for the Germans, John Dower asserts that "Not until May 1945, when the Nazi death camps were exposed, did public horror and indignation against the Germans reach, at least in the United States, a pitch comparable to the feelings directed against the Japanese".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead">Mutilation of Japanese war dead</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead" title="American mutilation of Japanese war dead">American mutilation of Japanese war dead</a></div> <p>In the Pacific theater, American servicemen engaged in <a href="/wiki/Human_trophy_collecting" title="Human trophy collecting">human trophy collecting</a>. The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that discussion of it featured prominently in magazines and newspapers. <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Roosevelt">Franklin Roosevelt</a> himself was reportedly given a gift of a letter-opener made of a Japanese soldier's arm by U.S. Representative <a href="/wiki/Francis_E._Walter" title="Francis E. Walter">Francis E. Walter</a> in 1944, which Roosevelt later ordered to be returned, calling for its proper burial.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 65">: 65 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Harrison_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harrison-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 825">: 825 </span></sup> The news was also widely reported to the Japanese public, where the Americans were portrayed as "deranged, primitive, racist and inhuman". This, compounded by a previous <i><a href="/wiki/Life_(magazine)" title="Life (magazine)">Life</a></i> magazine picture of a young woman with a skull trophy, was reprinted in the Japanese media and presented as a symbol of American barbarism, causing national shock and outrage.<sup id="cite_ref-dickey_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dickey-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Harrison_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harrison-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 833">: 833 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="War_rape">War rape</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan" title="Rape during the occupation of Japan">Rape during the occupation of Japan</a></div> <p>U.S. military personnel raped Okinawan women during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" title="Battle of Okinawa">Battle of Okinawa</a> in 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Schrijvers_212_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schrijvers_212-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Based on several years of research, Okinawan historian Oshiro Masayasu (former director of the Okinawa Prefectural Historical Archives) writes: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Soon after the U.S. Marines landed, all the women of a village on <a href="/wiki/Motobu_Peninsula" title="Motobu Peninsula">Motobu Peninsula</a> fell into the hands of American soldiers. At the time, there were only women, children, and old people in the village, as all the young men had been mobilized for the war. Soon after landing, the Marines "mopped up" the entire village, but found no signs of Japanese forces. Taking advantage of the situation, they started 'hunting for women' in broad daylight, and women who were hiding in the village or nearby air raid shelters were dragged out one after another.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>According to interviews carried out by <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> and published by them in 2000, several elderly people from an Okinawan village confessed that after the United States had won the Battle of Okinawa, three armed Marines kept coming to the village every week to force the villagers to gather all the local women, who were then carried off into the hills and raped. The article goes deeper into the matter and claims that the villagers' tale—true or not—is part of a "dark, long-kept secret" the unraveling of which "refocused attention on what historians say is one of the most widely ignored crimes of the war": "the widespread rape of Okinawan women by American servicemen."<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Japanese reports of rape were largely ignored at the time, one academic estimated that as many as 10,000 Okinawan women may have been raped. It has been claimed that the rape was so prevalent that most Okinawans over age 65 around the year 2000 either knew or had heard of a woman who was raped in the aftermath of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-okinawa_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-okinawa-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Professor of East Asian Studies and expert on Okinawa, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Rabson" title="Steve Rabson">Steve Rabson</a>, said: "I have read many accounts of such rapes in Okinawan newspapers and books, but few people know about them or are willing to talk about them."<sup id="cite_ref-okinawa_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-okinawa-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He notes that plenty of old local books, diaries, articles and other documents refer to rapes by American soldiers of various races and backgrounds. An explanation given for why the US military has no record of any rapes is that few Okinawan women reported abuse, mostly out of fear and embarrassment. According to an <a href="/wiki/Okinawa_Prefecture" title="Okinawa Prefecture">Okinawan</a> police spokesman: "Victimized women feel too ashamed to make it public."<sup id="cite_ref-okinawa_56-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-okinawa-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Those who did report them are believed by historians to have been ignored by the <a href="/wiki/Military_Police_Corps_(United_States)" title="Military Police Corps (United States)">U.S. military police</a>. Many people wondered why it never came to light after the inevitable American-Japanese babies the many women must have given birth to. In interviews, historians and Okinawan elders said that some of those Okinawan women who were raped and did not commit suicide did give birth to biracial children, but that many of them were immediately killed or left behind out of shame, disgust or fearful trauma. More often, however, rape victims underwent crude abortions with the help of village midwives. A large scale effort to determine the possible extent of these crimes has never been conducted. Over five decades after the war had ended, in the late-1990s, the women who were believed to have been raped still overwhelmingly refused to give public statements, instead speaking through relatives and a number of historians and scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-okinawa_56-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-okinawa-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is substantial evidence that the U.S. had at least some knowledge of what was going on. Samuel Saxton, a retired captain, explained that the American veterans and witnesses may have intentionally kept the rape a secret, largely out of shame: "It would be unfair for the public to get the impression that we were all a bunch of rapists after we worked so hard to serve our country."<sup id="cite_ref-okinawa_56-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-okinawa-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Military officials formally denied the mass rapes, and all surviving related veterans refused request for interviews from <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. Masaie Ishihara, a sociology professor, supports this: "There is a lot of historical amnesia out there, many people don't want to acknowledge what really happened."<sup id="cite_ref-okinawa_56-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-okinawa-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Author George Feifer noted in his book <i>Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb</i>, that by 1946 there had been fewer than 10 reported cases of rape in Okinawa. He explained it was "partly because of shame and disgrace, partly because Americans were victors and occupiers. In all there were probably thousands of incidents, but the victims' silence kept rape another dirty secret of the campaign."<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some other authors have noted that Japanese civilians "were often surprised at the comparatively humane treatment they received from the American enemy."<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <i>Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power</i> by <a href="/wiki/Mark_Selden" title="Mark Selden">Mark Selden</a>, the Americans "did not pursue a policy of <a href="/wiki/Torture" title="Torture">torture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">murder</a> of civilians as Japanese military officials had warned."<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to numerous academics, there were also 1,336 reported rapes during the first 10 days of the occupation of <a href="/wiki/Kanagawa_prefecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Kanagawa prefecture">Kanagawa prefecture</a> after the Japanese surrender, however, Brian Walsh states that this claim originated from a misreading of crime figures and that the Japanese Government had actually recorded 1,326 criminal incidents of all types involving American forces, of which an unspecified number were rapes.<sup id="cite_ref-Schrijvers_212_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schrijvers_212-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_theater">European theater</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dachau_execution_coalyard_1945-04-29.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Dachau_execution_coalyard_1945-04-29.jpg/220px-Dachau_execution_coalyard_1945-04-29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Dachau_execution_coalyard_1945-04-29.jpg/330px-Dachau_execution_coalyard_1945-04-29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Dachau_execution_coalyard_1945-04-29.jpg/440px-Dachau_execution_coalyard_1945-04-29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5192" data-file-height="3894" /></a><figcaption>Soldiers of the U.S. Seventh Army guard SS prisoners in a coal yard at Dachau concentration camp during its liberation. 29 April 1945 (U.S. Army photograph)<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Laconia_incident" title="Laconia incident">Laconia incident</a>, U.S. aircraft attacked Germans rescuing survivors from the sinking British <a href="/wiki/Troopship" title="Troopship">troopship</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>. Pilots of a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a> (USAAF) <a href="/wiki/B-24_Liberator" class="mw-redirect" title="B-24 Liberator">B-24 Liberator</a> bomber, despite knowing the <a href="/wiki/U-boat" title="U-boat">U-boat</a>'s location, intentions, and the presence of British seamen, killed dozens of <i>Laconia</i>'s survivors with bombs and <a href="/wiki/Strafing" title="Strafing">strafing</a> attacks, forcing <i>U-156</i> to cast its remaining survivors into the sea and <a href="/wiki/Crash_dive" title="Crash dive">crash dive</a> to avoid being destroyed. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily" title="Allied invasion of Sicily">Allied invasion of Sicily</a>, some massacres of civilians by US troops were reported, including one in Vittoria, where 12 Italians died (including a 17-year-old boy),<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in Piano Stella, where a group of peasants was murdered.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Canicatt%C3%AC_massacre" title="Canicattì massacre">Canicattì massacre</a> involved the killing of Italian civilians by Lieutenant Colonel George Herbert McCaffrey; a confidential inquiry was made, but McCaffrey was never charged with any offense relating to the massacre. He died in 1954. This fact remained virtually unknown in the U.S. until 2005, when a witness, the father of Joseph S. Salemi of <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> reported it.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Biscari_massacre" title="Biscari massacre">Biscari massacre</a>, which consisted of two instances of mass murder, U.S. troops of the <a href="/wiki/45th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" title="45th Infantry Division (United States)">45th Infantry Division</a> killed 73 prisoners of war, mostly Italian.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-patton_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-patton-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Only two soldiers were tried for the Biscari massacre, both of whom claimed in their defense that they were acting under orders from Patton not to take prisoners if enemy combatants continued to resist within two hundred yards of their position.<sup id="cite_ref-patton_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-patton-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 28–29">: 28–29 </span></sup> Major General <a href="/wiki/Everett_Hughes_(United_States_Army_officer)" title="Everett Hughes (United States Army officer)">Everett Hughes</a>, an old friend of Patton's, defended him, asserting that Patton had not "at any time advocated the destruction of prisoners of war under any circumstances".<sup id="cite_ref-patton_67-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-patton-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 36">: 36 </span></sup> James J. Weingartner argues that Patton's innocence in inciting violence against prisoners of war is uncertain, stating that "The testimony of multiple witnesses indicated beyond a reasonable doubt that Patton had urged the killing of enemy troops who continued to resist at close quarters, even if they offered to surrender. Patton probably wished his troops to deny quarter or refuse to accept the surrender of enemy combatants who continued to resist at close range, itself a violation of the laws of war (although common practice) by the twentieth century, but it should not be surprising if some Americans concluded that they were authorized to kill resolute enemy soldiers after they had placed themselves under American control".<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No official action was taken against Patton for any complicity in the massacre. </p><p>According to an article in <i><a href="/wiki/Der_Spiegel" title="Der Spiegel">Der Spiegel</a></i> by Klaus Wiegrefe, many personal memoirs of <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> soldiers have been wilfully ignored by historians until now because they were at odds with the <a href="/wiki/G.I._Generation" class="mw-redirect" title="G.I. Generation">greatest generation</a> mythology surrounding World War II. However, this has recently started to change, with books such as <i>The Day of Battle</i>, by <a href="/wiki/Rick_Atkinson" title="Rick Atkinson">Rick Atkinson</a>, in which he describes Allied war crimes in Italy, and <i>D-Day: The Battle for Normandy</i>, by <a href="/wiki/Antony_Beevor" title="Antony Beevor">Antony Beevor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-spiegel.de_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spiegel.de-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Beevor's latest work suggests that Allied war crimes in Normandy were much more extensive "than was previously realized".<sup id="cite_ref-spiegel.de_69-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spiegel.de-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Historian Peter Lieb has found that many U.S. and Canadian units were ordered not to take enemy prisoners during the <a href="/wiki/Normandy_landings" title="Normandy landings">D-Day landings in Normandy</a>. If this view is correct, it may explain the fate of 64 German prisoners (out of the 130 captured) who did not make it to the POW collecting point on <a href="/wiki/Omaha_Beach" title="Omaha Beach">Omaha Beach</a> on the day of the landings.<sup id="cite_ref-spiegel.de_69-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spiegel.de-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Near the French village of <a href="/wiki/Audouville-la-Hubert" title="Audouville-la-Hubert">Audouville-la-Hubert</a>, 30 <i><a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a></i> prisoners were massacred by U.S. <a href="/wiki/Paratroopers" class="mw-redirect" title="Paratroopers">paratroopers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-spiegel.de_69-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spiegel.de-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Image_110_of_George_S._Patton_Papers,_Diaries,_1910-1945,_Original,_1944,_Oct._3-1945,_Feb._5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Image_110_of_George_S._Patton_Papers%2C_Diaries%2C_1910-1945%2C_Original%2C_1944%2C_Oct._3-1945%2C_Feb._5.jpg/170px-Image_110_of_George_S._Patton_Papers%2C_Diaries%2C_1910-1945%2C_Original%2C_1944%2C_Oct._3-1945%2C_Feb._5.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Image_110_of_George_S._Patton_Papers%2C_Diaries%2C_1910-1945%2C_Original%2C_1944%2C_Oct._3-1945%2C_Feb._5.jpg/255px-Image_110_of_George_S._Patton_Papers%2C_Diaries%2C_1910-1945%2C_Original%2C_1944%2C_Oct._3-1945%2C_Feb._5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Image_110_of_George_S._Patton_Papers%2C_Diaries%2C_1910-1945%2C_Original%2C_1944%2C_Oct._3-1945%2C_Feb._5.jpg/340px-Image_110_of_George_S._Patton_Papers%2C_Diaries%2C_1910-1945%2C_Original%2C_1944%2C_Oct._3-1945%2C_Feb._5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1821" data-file-height="2712" /></a><figcaption>George S. Patton's war diary entry from 4 January 1945. Regarding the <a href="/wiki/Chenogne_massacre" title="Chenogne massacre">Chenogne massacre</a> on 1 January 1945 Patton noted: "Also murdered 50 odd German med [ics']. I hope we can conceal this."</figcaption></figure> <p>In the aftermath of the 1944 <a href="/wiki/Malmedy_massacre" title="Malmedy massacre">Malmedy massacre</a>, in which 80 American POWs were murdered by their German captors, a written order from the headquarters of the <a href="/wiki/328th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="328th Infantry Regiment (United States)">328th U.S. Army Infantry Regiment</a>, dated 21 December 1944, stated: "No <a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">SS</a> troops or paratroopers will be taken prisoner but [rather they] will be shot on sight."<sup id="cite_ref-darwin_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-darwin-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 186">: 186 </span></sup> Major-General Raymond Hufft (U.S. Army) gave instructions to his troops not to take prisoners when they crossed the Rhine in 1945. "After the war, when he reflected on the war crimes he authorized, he admitted, 'if the Germans had won, I would have been on trial at Nuremberg instead of them.<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>"<sup id="cite_ref-darwin_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-darwin-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 189">: 189 </span></sup> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Ambrose" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Ambrose">Stephen Ambrose</a> related: "I've interviewed well over 1000 combat veterans. Only one of them said he shot a prisoner ... Perhaps as many as one-third of the veterans...however, related incidents in which they saw other GIs shooting unarmed German prisoners who had their hands up."<sup id="cite_ref-darwin_70-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-darwin-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 190">: 190 </span></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Chenogne_massacre" title="Chenogne massacre">Chenogne massacre</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Battle of the Bulge</a> on 1 January 1945, members of the <a href="/wiki/11th_Armored_Division_(United_States)" title="11th Armored Division (United States)">11th Armored Division</a> killed an estimated 80 German prisoners of war, which were assembled in a field and shot with machine guns.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The events were covered up at the time, and none of the perpetrators were ever punished. Postwar historians believe the killings were carried out on verbal orders by senior commanders that "<a href="/wiki/No_quarter" title="No quarter">no prisoners were to be taken</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Sorge_1986_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sorge_1986-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> General <a href="/wiki/George_S._Patton" title="George S. Patton">George S. Patton</a> confirmed in his diary that the Americans "...also murdered 50 odd German med [ics']. I hope we can conceal this".<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Operation_Teardrop" title="Operation Teardrop">Operation Teardrop</a> involved eight surviving captured crewmen from the sunken German submarine <i><a href="/wiki/U-546" class="mw-redirect" title="U-546">U-546</a></i> being tortured by U.S. military personnel. Historian Philip K. Lundeberg has written that the beating and torture of <i>U-546's</i> survivors was a singular atrocity motivated by the interrogators' need to quickly get information on what the U.S. believed were potential missile attacks on the <a href="/wiki/Contiguous_United_States" title="Contiguous United States">contiguous United States</a> by German submarines.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>James J. Weingartner identifies what he views as a disparity in treatment between American and German war crimes in the court martial of American soldiers and the post-war trials of Germans, arguing that United States war crimes were judged "by a more indulgent standard" than comparable German atrocities, particularly in regard to the principle of following orders.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among American WWII veterans who admitted to having committed war crimes was former <a href="/wiki/American_Mafia" title="American Mafia">Mafia</a> <a href="/wiki/Hitman" class="mw-redirect" title="Hitman">hitman</a> <a href="/wiki/Frank_Sheeran" title="Frank Sheeran">Frank Sheeran</a>. In interviews with his biographer Charles Brandt, Sheeran recalled his war service with the <a href="/wiki/Thunderbird_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Thunderbird Division">Thunderbird Division</a> as the time when he first developed a callousness to the taking of human life. By his own admission, Sheeran participated in numerous massacres and summary executions of German POWs, acts which violated the <a href="/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907" title="Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907">Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Convention_on_Prisoners_of_War_(1929)" class="mw-redirect" title="Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War (1929)">1929 Geneva Convention on POWs</a>. In his interviews with Brandt, Sheeran divided such massacres into four different categories. </p> <dl><dd>1. Revenge killings in the heat of battle. Sheeran told Brandt that, when a <a href="/wiki/German_Army_(1935%E2%80%931945)" title="German Army (1935–1945)">German Army</a> soldier had just killed his close friends and then tried to surrender, he would often "send him to hell, too." He described often witnessing similar behavior by fellow <a href="/wiki/GI_(military)" class="mw-redirect" title="GI (military)">GIs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Brandt_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brandt-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 50">: 50 </span></sup></dd> <dd>2. Orders from unit commanders during a mission. When describing his first murder for organized crime, Sheeran recalled: "It was just like when an officer would tell you to take a couple of German prisoners back behind the line and for you to 'hurry back'. You did what you had to do."<sup id="cite_ref-Brandt_76-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brandt-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 84">: 84 </span></sup></dd> <dd>3. The <a href="/wiki/Dachau_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Dachau massacre">Dachau massacre</a> and other reprisal killings of <a href="/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps" title="Nazi concentration camps">concentration camp</a> guards and trustee inmates.<sup id="cite_ref-Brandt_76-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brandt-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 52">: 52 </span></sup></dd> <dd>4. Calculated attempts to dehumanize and degrade <a href="/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_United_States" title="German prisoners of war in the United States">German POWs</a>. While Sheeran's unit was climbing the <a href="/wiki/Harz_Mountains" class="mw-redirect" title="Harz Mountains">Harz Mountains</a>, they came upon a <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a> mule train carrying food and drink up the mountainside. The female cooks were first allowed to leave unmolested, then Sheeran and his fellow GIs "ate what we wanted and soiled the rest with our waste." Then the Wehrmacht mule drivers were given shovels and ordered to "dig their own shallow graves." Sheeran later joked that they did so without complaint, likely hoping that he and his buddies would change their minds. But the mule drivers were shot and buried in the holes they had dug. Sheeran explained that by then, "I had no hesitation in doing what I had to do."<sup id="cite_ref-Brandt_76-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brandt-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 51">: 51 </span></sup></dd></dl> <p>Elements of Sheeran's reasoning are supported by historian James J. Weingartner. Weingartner states that "Prisoners were killed in reprisal for real or imagined atrocities, for the utilitarian reason that keeping them was impractical or inconvenient, or out of frustration with a war that was going badly or was being unnecessarily prolonged by the enemy. Civilians often fell victim to the fury of ground combatants, particularly in situations where occupying forces were real or imagined objects of guerilla warfare".<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Rape">Rape</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_liberation_of_France" title="Rape during the liberation of France">Rape during the liberation of France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany" title="Rape during the occupation of Germany">Rape during the occupation of Germany</a></div> <p>Secret wartime files made public only in 2006 reveal that American GIs committed 400 sexual offenses in Europe, including 126 rapes in England, between 1942 and 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A study by Robert J. Lilly estimates that a total of 14,000 civilian women in England, France and Germany were raped by American GIs during World War II.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He estimates that there were around 3,500 rapes by American servicemen in France between June 1944 and the end of the war. Historian William Hitchcock states that sexual violence against women in <a href="/wiki/Liberation_of_France" title="Liberation of France">liberated France</a> was common.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcNormandy_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcNormandy-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Human_experimentation">Human experimentation</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States" title="Unethical human experimentation in the United States">Unethical human experimentation in the United States</a></div> <p>The US military conducted experiments with chemical weapons like lewisite and mustard gas on Japanese American, Puerto Rican and African Americans in the US military in World War II to see how non-white races would react to being mustard gassed, with Rollin Edwards describing it as "It felt like you were on fire, Guys started screaming and hollering and trying to break out. And then some of the guys fainted. And finally they opened the door and let us out, and the guys were just, they were in bad shape." and "It took all the skin off your hands. Your hands just rotted". White soldiers were not experimented on.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At <a href="/wiki/Fort_Detrick" title="Fort Detrick">Fort Detrick</a>, a number of experiments on human subjects, including infants, were conducted by a team of military microbiologists under the direction of Colonel <a href="/wiki/Murray_Sanders" title="Murray Sanders">Murray Sanders</a>. The experiments occasionally resulted in deaths, and, in one case, the <a href="/wiki/Gifford_Pinchot_III" title="Gifford Pinchot III">infant grandson</a> of governor <a href="/wiki/Gifford_Pinchot" title="Gifford Pinchot">Gifford Pinchot</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> nearly died during an experiment. As a result, Sanders was placed under <a href="/wiki/House_arrest" title="House arrest">house arrest</a>, though was released within 48 hours.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1943 and 1945, the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" title="Office of Strategic Services">Office of Strategic Services</a> conducted a series of <a href="/wiki/Interrogation" title="Interrogation">interrogation</a> experiments on human subjects in hopes of developing a potential <a href="/wiki/Truth_serum" title="Truth serum">truth serum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to a 1977 report from journalist <a href="/wiki/John_M._Crewdson" title="John M. Crewdson">John M. Crewdson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a>-derived "T-drugs" were sometimes administered on "unwitting subjects".<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Korean_War">Korean War</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Korean_War" title="War crimes in the Korean War">War crimes in the Korean War</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bombing_of_North_Korea">Bombing of North Korea</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea" title="Bombing of North Korea">Bombing of North Korea</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Korean_War_bombing_Wonsan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Korean_War_bombing_Wonsan.jpg/220px-Korean_War_bombing_Wonsan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Korean_War_bombing_Wonsan.jpg/330px-Korean_War_bombing_Wonsan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Korean_War_bombing_Wonsan.jpg/440px-Korean_War_bombing_Wonsan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2929" data-file-height="2359" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Wonsan" title="Wonsan">Wonsan</a> under attack by B-26 bombers from the U.S. Air Force, 1951</figcaption></figure> <p>The US bombing of North Korea during the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> has been condemned as a war crime by various authors. According to journalist Max Fisher, the U.S. bombing campaign "often deliberately targeted civilian as well as military targets".<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historian <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Cumings" title="Bruce Cumings">Bruce Cumings</a> has likened the bombings to a <a href="/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">genocide</a>, stating, "What hardly any Americans know or remember is that we <a href="/wiki/Carpet_bombing" title="Carpet bombing">carpet-bombed</a> the north for three years with next to no concern for civilian casualties." Author <a href="/wiki/Blaine_Harden" title="Blaine Harden">Blaine Harden</a> has called the bombing campaign a "major war crime."<sup id="cite_ref-Harden_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harden-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 13 May 1953, the US Air Force <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea#May_1953:_Attacks_on_major_dams" title="Bombing of North Korea">destroyed five North Korean dams</a> causing widespread flooding and destruction to farmlands. According to <a href="/wiki/Charles_K._Armstrong" title="Charles K. Armstrong">Charles K. Armstrong</a>, the flooding threatened several million North Koreans with starvation and "only emergency assistance from China, the USSR, and other socialist countries prevented widespread famine."<sup id="cite_ref-Armstrong_2010_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Armstrong_2010-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1954 article from the <i><a href="/wiki/Air_and_Space_Power_Journal" title="Air and Space Power Journal">Air and Space Power Journal</a></i>, the principal journal of the Department of the United States Air Force, reported that: </p> <dl><dd>"Toksan strike and similar attacks on the Chasan, Kuwonga, Kusong, and Toksang dams... [were] furnishing 75 per cent of the controlled water supply for North Korea’s rice production" and that "to the Communists the smashing of the dams meant primarily the destruction of their chief sustenance—rice. The Westerner can little conceive the awesome meaning which the loss of this staple food commodity has for the Asian—starvation and slow death. 'Rice famine,' for centuries the chronic scourge of the Orient, is more feared than the deadliest plague.... The irrigation dam attacks, though small in scale and relatively unimportant strategically in comparison to what could have been exerted against 20 dams instead of 5, gave the enemy a sample of the totality of war that an air strategy makes possible–a totality embracing the whole of a nation’s economy and its people..."<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>Stephen Endicott, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Hagerman" title="Edward Hagerman">Edward Hagerman</a>, Bruce Cumings, <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Bix" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert Bix">Herbert Bix</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a> argue that these actions are war crimes according to international law.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sandra Wilson argues that one of the reasons that US authorities did not pursue legal war crime cases against North Korean leaders, despite much legal preparation, was because the "moral standing of the West, and hence its authority to run trials, was undermined by the large number of atrocities committed by the United Nations side."<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2001 report by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Chosun_Ilbo" title="The Chosun Ilbo">The Chosun Ilbo</a></i> claims that approximately 282,000 North Korean civilians died during the bombing campaign, citing a report by <a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_Russia_to_North_Korea" title="List of ambassadors of Russia to North Korea">Soviet ambassador to Korea</a> V. N. Razuvaev.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> General <a href="/wiki/Curtis_LeMay" title="Curtis LeMay">Curtis LeMay</a>, who was head of the <a href="/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command" title="Strategic Air Command">Strategic Air Command</a> during the war, stated in a 1988 interview to Air Force historians that "Over a period of three years or so we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population of Korea, as direct casualties of war or from starvation and exposure?"<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="No_Gun_Ri_massacre">No Gun Ri massacre</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre" title="No Gun Ri massacre">No Gun Ri massacre</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:No_Gun_Ri_Peace_Park-Memorial_Tower.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/No_Gun_Ri_Peace_Park-Memorial_Tower.jpg/220px-No_Gun_Ri_Peace_Park-Memorial_Tower.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/No_Gun_Ri_Peace_Park-Memorial_Tower.jpg/330px-No_Gun_Ri_Peace_Park-Memorial_Tower.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/No_Gun_Ri_Peace_Park-Memorial_Tower.jpg/440px-No_Gun_Ri_Peace_Park-Memorial_Tower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1272" data-file-height="888" /></a><figcaption>The Memorial Tower to the victims of the <a href="/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre" title="No Gun Ri massacre">No Gun Ri massacre</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The No Gun Ri massacre refers to an incident of mass killing of an undetermined number of South Korean refugees by U.S. soldiers of the <a href="/wiki/7th_Cavalry_Regiment_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="7th Cavalry Regiment (United States)">7th Cavalry Regiment</a> under the command of General <a href="/wiki/Hobart_R._Gay" title="Hobart R. Gay">Hobart R. Gay</a>, between 26 and 29 July 1950 at a railroad bridge near the village of <a href="/wiki/Nogeun-ri" title="Nogeun-ri">Nogeun-ri</a>, 100 miles (160 km) southeast of <a href="/wiki/Seoul" title="Seoul">Seoul</a>. In 2005, the <a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korean</a> government certified the names of 163 dead or missing (mostly women, children, and old men) and 55 wounded. It said that many other victims' names were not reported.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The South Korean government-funded No Gun Ri Peace Foundation estimated in 2011 that 250–300 were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the years survivors' estimates of the dead have ranged from 300 to 500. This episode early in the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> gained widespread attention when the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> (AP) published a series of articles in 1999 that subsequently won a <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Investigative_Reporting" title="Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting">Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Project_Artichoke">Project Artichoke</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Project_Artichoke" title="Project Artichoke">Project Artichoke</a> and <a href="/wiki/MKUltra" title="MKUltra">MKUltra</a></div><p> During the war, the CIA conducted <a href="/wiki/Interrogation" title="Interrogation">interrogation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brainwashing" title="Brainwashing">brainwashing</a> experiments on some North Korean and Chinese prisoners of war as part of <a href="/wiki/Project_Artichoke" title="Project Artichoke">Project Artichoke</a>, which was launched in 1951 by the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Scientific_Intelligence" title="Office of Scientific Intelligence">Office of Scientific Intelligence</a> under the direction of Army brigadier general <a href="/wiki/Paul_F._Gaynor" title="Paul F. Gaynor">Paul F. Gaynor</a>. On February 23, 1953, the Chinese broadcast charges that <a href="/wiki/Frank_Schwable" title="Frank Schwable">two captured American pilots</a> had claimed the U.S. was conducting germ warfare against North Korea. Other captured Americans such as Colonel <a href="/wiki/Bud_Mahurin" title="Bud Mahurin">Walker "Bud" Mahurin</a> made similar statements.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prisoners were subjected to <a href="/wiki/Hypnosis" title="Hypnosis">hypnosis</a> experiments as well as forced <a href="/wiki/Addiction" title="Addiction">addiction</a> to and <a href="/wiki/Drug_withdrawal" title="Drug withdrawal">withdrawals</a> from substances such as <a href="/wiki/LSD" title="LSD">LSD</a>, in an attempt to produce <a href="/wiki/Amnesia" title="Amnesia">amnesia</a> so the subjects could be made to perform acts against their will. Subjects were also purposely infected with a number of diseases such as <a href="/wiki/Dengue_fever" title="Dengue fever">dengue fever</a> in hopes that said viruses could be used as potential <a href="/wiki/Incapacitating_agent" title="Incapacitating agent">incapacitating agents</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Vietnam_War">Vietnam War</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War_Crimes_Working_Group" title="Vietnam War Crimes Working Group">Vietnam War Crimes Working Group</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russell_Tribunal" title="Russell Tribunal">Russell Tribunal</a>, <a href="/wiki/War_crimes_during_the_Vietnam_War" class="mw-redirect" title="War crimes during the Vietnam War">War crimes during the Vietnam War</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_Vietnam_War" title="Rape during the Vietnam War">Rape during the Vietnam War</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BeheadedVCVietnamGIMay1968.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/BeheadedVCVietnamGIMay1968.jpg/220px-BeheadedVCVietnamGIMay1968.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/BeheadedVCVietnamGIMay1968.jpg/330px-BeheadedVCVietnamGIMay1968.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/BeheadedVCVietnamGIMay1968.jpg/440px-BeheadedVCVietnamGIMay1968.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="736" /></a><figcaption>Original caption from <a href="/wiki/GI_Underground_Press#Vietnam_GI" title="GI Underground Press">Vietnam GI</a>: "The above picture shows exactly what the brass want you to do in the Nam. The reason for printing this picture is not to put down G.I.’s but rather to illustrate the fact that the Army can really fuck over your mind if you let it. It’s up to you, you can put in your time just trying to make it back in one piece or you can become a psycho like the Lifer (E-6) in the picture who really digs this kind of shit. It’s your choice."<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/RJ_Rummel" class="mw-redirect" title="RJ Rummel">RJ Rummel</a> estimated that American forces killed around 5,500 people in <a href="/wiki/Democide" title="Democide">democide</a> between 1960 and 1972 in the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, from a range of between 4,000 and 10,000.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Valentino" title="Benjamin Valentino">Benjamin Valentino</a> estimates 110,000–310,000 deaths as a "possible case" of "counter-guerrilla mass killings" by U.S. and <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam" title="Army of the Republic of Vietnam">South Vietnamese forces</a> during the war.<sup id="cite_ref-Valentino_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Valentino-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the war, 95 U.S. Army personnel and 27 U.S. Marine Corps personnel were convicted by court-martial of the murder or manslaughter of Vietnamese.<sup id="cite_ref-Solis_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Solis-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 33">: 33 </span></sup> </p><p>U.S. forces also established numerous <a href="/wiki/Free-fire_zone" title="Free-fire zone">free-fire zones</a> as a tactic to prevent <a href="/wiki/Viet_Cong" title="Viet Cong">Viet Cong</a> fighters from sheltering in South Vietnamese villages.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such practice, which involved the assumption that any individual appearing in the designated zones was an enemy combatant that could be freely targeted by weapons, is regarded by journalist Lewis M. Simons as "a severe violation of the laws of war".<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nick_Turse" title="Nick Turse">Nick Turse</a>, in his 2013 book, <i>Kill Anything that Moves</i>, argues that a relentless drive toward higher <a href="/wiki/Body_count" title="Body count">body counts</a>, a widespread use of free-fire zones, rules of engagement where civilians who ran from soldiers or helicopters could be viewed as Viet Cong and a widespread disdain for Vietnamese civilians led to massive civilian casualties and endemic war crimes inflicted by U.S. troops.<sup id="cite_ref-Turse_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Turse-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 251">: 251 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="My_Lai_Massacre">My Lai Massacre</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/My_Lai_massacre" title="My Lai massacre">My Lai massacre</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:My_Lai_massacre3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/My_Lai_massacre3.jpg/220px-My_Lai_massacre3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/My_Lai_massacre3.jpg/330px-My_Lai_massacre3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/My_Lai_massacre3.jpg/440px-My_Lai_massacre3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1331" /></a><figcaption>Bodies of some of the hundreds of Vietnamese civilians who were killed by U.S. soldiers during the <a href="/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="My Lai Massacre">My Lai Massacre</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MyLai_Haeberle_P33_BodiesNearBurningHouse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/MyLai_Haeberle_P33_BodiesNearBurningHouse.jpg/220px-MyLai_Haeberle_P33_BodiesNearBurningHouse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/MyLai_Haeberle_P33_BodiesNearBurningHouse.jpg/330px-MyLai_Haeberle_P33_BodiesNearBurningHouse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/MyLai_Haeberle_P33_BodiesNearBurningHouse.jpg/440px-MyLai_Haeberle_P33_BodiesNearBurningHouse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1380" /></a><figcaption>Dead bodies outside a burning dwelling in My Lai</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/My_Lai_massacre" title="My Lai massacre">My Lai massacre</a> was the <a href="/wiki/Mass_murder" title="Mass murder">mass murder</a> of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, almost entirely <a href="/wiki/Civilian" title="Civilian">civilians</a>, most of them women and children, conducted by U.S. soldiers from the <a href="/wiki/Company_(military_unit)" title="Company (military unit)">Company</a> C of the 1st <a href="/wiki/Battalion" title="Battalion">Battalion</a>, <a href="/wiki/20th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="20th Infantry Regiment (United States)">20th Infantry Regiment</a>, <a href="/wiki/11th_Infantry_Brigade_(United_States)" title="11th Infantry Brigade (United States)">11th Brigade</a> of the <a href="/wiki/23rd_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="23rd Infantry Division (United States)">23rd (American) Infantry Division</a>, on 16 March 1968. Some of the victims were raped, beaten, tortured, or maimed, and some of the bodies were found mutilated. The massacre took place in the hamlets of Mỹ Lai and My Khe of <a href="/wiki/Son_My" class="mw-redirect" title="Son My">Sơn Mỹ</a> village during the Vietnam War.<sup id="cite_ref-summaryreport_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-summaryreport-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-peersreport_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-peersreport-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the 26 U.S. soldiers initially charged with criminal offenses or war crimes for actions at My Lai, only <a href="/wiki/William_Calley" title="William Calley">William Calley</a> was convicted. Initially sentenced to life in prison, Calley had his sentence reduced to ten years, then was released after only three and a half years under <a href="/wiki/House_arrest" title="House arrest">house arrest</a>. The incident prompted widespread outrage around the world, and reduced U.S. domestic support for the Vietnam War. Three American Servicemen (<a href="/wiki/Hugh_Thompson,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Hugh Thompson, Jr.">Hugh Thompson, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Andreotta" title="Glenn Andreotta">Glenn Andreotta</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Colburn" title="Lawrence Colburn">Lawrence Colburn</a>), who made an effort to halt the massacre and protect the wounded, were sharply criticized by U.S. Congressmen, and received hate mail, death threats, and mutilated animals on their doorsteps.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thirty years after the event their efforts were honored.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the massacre a <a href="/wiki/The_Pentagon" title="The Pentagon">Pentagon</a> task force called the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War_Crimes_Working_Group" title="Vietnam War Crimes Working Group">Vietnam War Crimes Working Group</a> (VWCWG) investigated alleged atrocities by U.S. troops against South Vietnamese civilians and created a formerly secret archive of some 9,000 pages (the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War_Crimes_Working_Group_Files" class="mw-redirect" title="Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Files">Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Files</a> housed by the <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives and Records Administration</a>) documenting 320 alleged incidents from 1967 to 1971 including 7 massacres (not including the My Lai Massacre) in which at least 137 civilians died; 78 additional attacks targeting noncombatants in which at least 57 were killed, 56 wounded and 15 sexually assaulted; and 141 incidents of U.S. soldiers torturing civilian detainees or prisoners of war. 203 U.S. personnel were charged with crimes, 57 were court-martialed and 23 were convicted. The VWCWG also investigated over 500 additional alleged atrocities but could not verify them.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Operation_Speedy_Express">Operation Speedy Express</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Operation_Speedy_Express" title="Operation Speedy Express">Operation Speedy Express</a></div> <p>Operation Speedy Express was a controversial military operation aimed at pacifying large parts of the <a href="/wiki/Mekong_Delta" title="Mekong Delta">Mekong delta</a> from December 1968 to May 1969. The U.S. Army claimed 10,899 PAVN/VC were killed in the operation, while the US Army Inspector General estimated that there were 5,000 to 7,000 civilian deaths from the operation.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Robert Kaylor of <a href="/wiki/United_Press_International" title="United Press International">United Press International</a> alleged that according to American pacification advisers in the Mekong Delta during the operation the division had indulged in the "wanton killing" of civilians through the "indiscriminate use of mass firepower."<sup id="cite_ref-Hammond_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hammond-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Phoenix_Program">Phoenix Program</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Program" title="Phoenix Program">Phoenix Program</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Waterboarding_a_captured_North_Vietnamese_soldier_near_Da_Nang.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/98/Waterboarding_a_captured_North_Vietnamese_soldier_near_Da_Nang.jpeg/220px-Waterboarding_a_captured_North_Vietnamese_soldier_near_Da_Nang.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/98/Waterboarding_a_captured_North_Vietnamese_soldier_near_Da_Nang.jpeg/330px-Waterboarding_a_captured_North_Vietnamese_soldier_near_Da_Nang.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/98/Waterboarding_a_captured_North_Vietnamese_soldier_near_Da_Nang.jpeg/440px-Waterboarding_a_captured_North_Vietnamese_soldier_near_Da_Nang.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1252" /></a><figcaption>Two United States soldiers and one <a href="/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnamese</a> soldier waterboard a captured North Vietnamese prisoner of war near <a href="/wiki/Da_Nang" title="Da Nang">Da Nang</a>, 1968.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Phoenix Program was coordinated by the CIA, involving South Vietnamese, US and other allied security forces, with the aim identifying and destroying the <a href="/wiki/Viet_Cong" title="Viet Cong">Viet Cong</a> (VC) through infiltration, <a href="/wiki/Torture" title="Torture">torture</a>, capture, <a href="/wiki/Counter-terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-terrorism">counter-terrorism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Interrogation" title="Interrogation">interrogation</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassination</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The program was heavily criticized, with critics labeling it a "civilian assassination program" and criticizing the operation's use of torture.<sup id="cite_ref-Ward_124-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ward-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 341–343">: 341–343 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tiger_Force">Tiger Force</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Force" title="Tiger Force">Tiger Force</a></div> <p>Tiger Force was the name of a <a href="/wiki/Long-range_reconnaissance_patrol" title="Long-range reconnaissance patrol">long-range reconnaissance patrol</a> unit of the 1st Battalion (Airborne), <a href="/wiki/327th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="327th Infantry Regiment (United States)">327th Infantry</a>, 1st Brigade (Separate), <a href="/wiki/101st_Airborne_Division" title="101st Airborne Division">101st Airborne Division</a>, which fought from November 1965 to November 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-Tiger_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tiger-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The unit gained notoriety after investigations during the course of the war and decades afterwards revealed extensive war crimes against civilians, which numbered into the hundreds. They were accused of routine torture, execution of prisoners of war and the intentional killing of civilians. US army investigators concluded that many of the alleged war crimes took place.<sup id="cite_ref-Ward_124-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ward-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 235–238">: 235–238 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_incidents">Other incidents</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vietconginterrogation1967.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Vietconginterrogation1967.jpg/220px-Vietconginterrogation1967.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Vietconginterrogation1967.jpg/330px-Vietconginterrogation1967.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Vietconginterrogation1967.jpg/440px-Vietconginterrogation1967.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1605" /></a><figcaption>Captured Viet Cong soldier blindfolded and tied in a <a href="/wiki/Stress_position" title="Stress position">stress position</a>, 1967</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kill_prisoner,_Vietnam.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Kill_prisoner%2C_Vietnam.jpg/170px-Kill_prisoner%2C_Vietnam.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Kill_prisoner%2C_Vietnam.jpg/255px-Kill_prisoner%2C_Vietnam.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Kill_prisoner%2C_Vietnam.jpg/340px-Kill_prisoner%2C_Vietnam.jpg 2x" data-file-width="460" data-file-height="601" /></a><figcaption><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_captions" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Image captions"><span title="This caption may require improvement to comply with Wikipedia's guidelines. (September 2023)">improve caption</span></a></i>]</sup></figcaption></figure> <p>On 12 August 1965 Lcpl McGhee of Company M, <a href="/wiki/3rd_Battalion,_3rd_Marines" title="3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines">3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines</a>, walked through Marine lines at <a href="/wiki/Chu_Lai_Base_Area" title="Chu Lai Base Area">Chu Lai Base Area</a> toward a nearby village. In answer to a Marine sentry's shouted question, he responded that he was going after a VC. Two Marines were dispatched to retrieve McGhee and as they approached the village they heard a shot and a woman's scream and then saw McGhee walking toward them from the village. McGhee said he had just killed a VC and other VC were following him. At trial Vietnamese prosecution witnesses testified that McGhee had kicked through the wall of the hut where their family slept. He seized a 14-year-old girl and pulled her toward the door. When her father interceded, McGhee shot and killed him. Once outside the house the girl escaped McGhee with the help of her grandmother. McGhee was found guilty of unpremeditated murder and sentenced to confinement at hard labor for ten years. On appeal this was reduced to 7 years and he actually served 6 years and 1 month.<sup id="cite_ref-Solis_109-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Solis-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 33–4">: 33–4 </span></sup> </p><p>On 23 September 1966, a nine-man ambush patrol from the <a href="/wiki/1st_Battalion,_5th_Marines" title="1st Battalion, 5th Marines">1st Battalion, 5th Marines</a>, left Hill 22, northwest of Chu Lai. Private First Class John D. Potter, Jr. took effective command of the patrol. They entered the hamlet of Xuan Ngoc (2) and seized Dao Quang Thinh, whom they accused of being a Viet Cong, and dragged him from his hut. While they beat him, other patrol members forced his wife, Bui Thi Huong, from their hut and four of them raped her. A few minutes later three other patrol members shot Dao Quang Thinh, Bui, their child, Bui's sister-in-law, and her sister in- law's child. Bui Thi Huong survived to testify at the courts-martial. The company commander suspicious of the reported "enemy contact" sent Second Lieutenant Stephen J. Talty, to return to the scene with the patrol. Once there, Talty realized what had happened and attempted to cover up the incident. A wounded child was discovered alive and Potter bludgeoned them to death with his rifle. Potter was convicted of premeditated murder and rape, and sentenced to confinement at hard labor for life, but was released in February 1978, having served 12 years and 1 month.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hospitalman John R. Bretag testified against Potter and was sentenced to 6 month's confinement for rape. PFC James H. Boyd, Jr., pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 4 years confinement at hard labor. Sergeant Ronald L. Vogel was convicted for murder of one of the children and rape and was sentenced to 50 years confinement at hard labor, which was reduced on appeal to 10 years, of which he served 9 years. Two patrol members were acquitted of major charges, but were convicted of assault with intent to commit rape and sentenced to 6 months' confinement. Lt Talty was found guilty of making a false report and dismissed from the Marine Corps, but this was overturned on appeal.<sup id="cite_ref-Solis_109-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Solis-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 53–4">: 53–4 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>PFC Charles W. Keenan was convicted of murder by firing at point-blank range into an unarmed, elderly Vietnamese woman, and an unarmed Vietnamese man. His life sentence was reduced to 25 years confinement. Upon appeal, the conviction for the woman's murder was dismissed and confinement was reduced to five years. Later clemency action further reduced his confinement to 2 years and 9 months. Corporal Stanley J. Luczko, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to confinement for three years.<sup id="cite_ref-Solis_109-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Solis-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 79–81">: 79–81 </span></sup> </p><p>From 31 January to 1 February 1967, 145 civilians were purported to have been killed by Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, during the <a href="/wiki/Thuy_Bo_incident" class="mw-redirect" title="Thuy Bo incident">Thuy Bo incident</a>. Marine accounts record 101 Viet Cong and 22 civilians killed during a 2-day battle. </p><p>On 5 May 1968, Lcpl Denzil R. Allen led a six-man ambush patrol from the 1st Battalion, 27th Marines near Huế. They stopped and interrogated two unarmed Vietnamese men who Allen and Private Martin R. Alvarez then executed. After an attack on their base that night the unit sent out a patrol who brought back three Vietnamese men. Allen, Alvarez, Lance Corporals John D. Belknap, James A. Maushart, PFC Robert J. Vickers, and two others then formed a firing squad and executed two of the Vietnamese. The third captive was taken into a building where Allen, Belknap, and Anthony Licciardo, Jr., hanged him, when the rope broke Allen cut the man's throat, killing him. Allen pleaded guilty to five counts of unpremeditated murder and was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for life reduced to 20 years in exchange for the guilty plea. Allen's confinement was reduced to 7 years and he was paroled after having served only 2 years and 11 months confinement. Maushart pleaded guilty to one count of unpremeditated murder and was sentenced to 2 years confinement of which he served 1 year and 8 months. Belknap and Licciardo each pleaded guilty to single murders and were sentenced to 2 years confinement. Belknap served 15 months while Licciardo served his full sentence. Alvarez was found to lack mental responsibility and found not guilty. Vickers was found guilty of two counts of unpremeditated murder, but his convictions were overturned on review.<sup id="cite_ref-Solis_109-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Solis-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 111–4">: 111–4 </span></sup> </p><p>On the morning of 1 March 1969 an eight-man Marine ambush was discovered by three Vietnamese girls, aged about 13, 17, and 19, and a Vietnamese boy, about 11. The four shouted their discovery to those being observed by the ambush. Seized by the Marines, the four were bound, gagged, and led away by Corporal Ronald J. Reese and Lance Corporal Stephen D. Crider. Minutes later, the 4 children were seen, apparently dead, in a small bunker. The Marines tossed a fragmentation grenade into the bunker, which then collapsed the damaged structure atop the bodies. Reese and Crider were each convicted of four counts of murder and sentenced to confinement at hard labor for life. On appeal both sentences were reduced to 3 years confinement.<sup id="cite_ref-Solis_109-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Solis-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 140">: 140 </span></sup> </p><p>On 19 February 1970, during the <a href="/wiki/Son_Thang_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Son Thang massacre">Son Thang massacre</a>, 16 unarmed women and children were killed in the Son Thang Hamlet by Company B, <a href="/wiki/1st_Battalion,_7th_Marines" title="1st Battalion, 7th Marines">1st Battalion, 7th Marines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Tucker_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tucker-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One person was sentenced to life in prison, another sentenced to 5 years, but both sentences were reduced to less than a year. One of the perpetrators committed suicide in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-Tucker_128-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tucker-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 2 June 1971, Brigadier General <a href="/wiki/John_W._Donaldson" title="John W. Donaldson">John W. Donaldson</a> was charged with the murder of six Vietnamese civilians but was acquitted due to lack of evidence. In 13 separate incidents Donaldson was alleged to have flown over civilian areas shooting at civilians. He was the first U.S. general charged with war crimes since General <a href="/wiki/Jacob_H._Smith" title="Jacob H. Smith">Jacob H. Smith</a> in 1902 and the highest ranking American to be accused of war crimes during the Vietnam War.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. </p><p>American Marine Corporal Bill Hatton admitted that when he was in Dong Ha and Quang Tri as part of an engineer maintenance platoon that he and his fellow American soldiers burned the membrane of the throats of Vietnamese children and holes in their stomachs by feeding them trioxane heat tablets in the middle of peanut butter cracker sandwiches from their rations.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gulf_War">Gulf War</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_war_crimes&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>On February 13, 1991, a pair of <a href="/wiki/F-117" class="mw-redirect" title="F-117">F-117 Nighthawks</a> Operated by the United States Air Force dropped two <a href="/wiki/GBU-27" class="mw-redirect" title="GBU-27">GBU-27</a> <a href="/wiki/Bunker_busting" class="mw-redirect" title="Bunker busting">bunker busting</a> <a href="/wiki/Laser-guided_bombs" class="mw-redirect" title="Laser-guided bombs">laser-guided bombs</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Amiriyah_shelter" class="mw-redirect" title="Amiriyah shelter">Amiriyah shelter</a>, killing at least 408 civilians. The <a href="/wiki/US_military" class="mw-redirect" title="US military">US military</a> later stated that they didn't know it was a civilian shelter, instead believing it to be a military bunker operated by the <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Intelligence_Service" title="Iraqi Intelligence Service">Iraqi Intelligence Service</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="War_on_Terror">War on Terror</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/War_on_Terror" class="mw-redirect" title="War on Terror">War on Terror</a></div> <p>In the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a> in 2001, the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Government" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Government">U.S. Government</a> adopted several new measures in the classification and treatment of prisoners captured in the War on Terror, including applying the status of <a href="/wiki/Unlawful_combatant" title="Unlawful combatant">unlawful combatant</a> to some prisoners, conducting <a href="/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition" title="Extraordinary rendition">extraordinary renditions</a> and using torture ("<a href="/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques" title="Enhanced interrogation techniques">enhanced interrogation techniques</a>"). <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> and others described the measures as being illegal under the Geneva Conventions.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The torture of detainees was extensively detailed in the <a href="/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on_CIA_torture" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture">Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AbuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/AbuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg/220px-AbuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/AbuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg/330px-AbuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/AbuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg/440px-AbuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1917" data-file-height="2560" /></a><figcaption>Picture of a prisoner subjected to <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse" title="Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse">torture and abuse by U.S. forces</a> at <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prison" title="Abu Ghraib prison">Abu Ghraib prison</a> in Iraq. The photo has become internationally famous, eventually making it onto the cover of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a></i>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Command_responsibility">Command responsibility</h3></div> <p>A presidential memorandum of 7 February 2002, authorized U.S. interrogators of prisoners captured during the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">War in Afghanistan</a> to deny the prisoners basic protections required by the Geneva Conventions, and thus according to Jordan J. Paust, professor of law and formerly a member of the faculty of the <a href="/wiki/Judge_Advocate_General%27s_Corps" title="Judge Advocate General's Corps">Judge Advocate General</a>'s School, "necessarily authorized and ordered violations of the Geneva Conventions, which are war crimes."<sup id="cite_ref-cjtl_140-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cjtl-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 828">: 828 </span></sup> Based on the president's memorandum, U.S. personnel carried out <a href="/wiki/Cruel_and_unusual_punishment" title="Cruel and unusual punishment">cruel and inhumane treatment</a> on captured enemy fighters,<sup id="cite_ref-cjtl_140-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cjtl-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 845">: 845 </span></sup> which necessarily means that the president's memorandum was a plan to violate the Geneva Convention, and such a plan constitutes a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, according to Professor Paust.<sup id="cite_ref-cjtl_140-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cjtl-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 861">: 861 </span></sup> </p><p>U.S. Attorney General <a href="/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales" title="Alberto Gonzales">Alberto Gonzales</a> and others have argued that detainees should be considered "unlawful combatants" and as such not be protected by the Geneva Conventions in multiple memoranda regarding these perceived legal gray areas.<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gonzales' statement that denying coverage under the Geneva Conventions "substantially reduces the threat of domestic criminal prosecution under the <a href="/wiki/War_Crimes_Act_of_1996" title="War Crimes Act of 1996">War Crimes Act</a>" suggests, to some authors, an awareness by those involved in crafting policies in this area that U.S. officials are involved in acts that could be seen to be war crimes.<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Human Rights Watch claimed in 2005 that the principle of "<a href="/wiki/Command_responsibility" title="Command responsibility">command responsibility</a>" could make high-ranking officials within the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush">Bush administration</a> guilty of the numerous war crimes committed during the <a href="/wiki/War_on_Terror" class="mw-redirect" title="War on Terror">War on Terror</a>, either with their knowledge or by persons under their control.<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 14 April 2006, Human Rights Watch said that Secretary <a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a> could be criminally liable for his alleged involvement in the abuse of <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_al-Qahtani" title="Mohammed al-Qahtani">Mohammed al-Qahtani</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 14 November 2006, invoking <a href="/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction" title="Universal jurisdiction">universal jurisdiction</a>, legal proceedings were started in Germany—for their alleged involvement of prisoner abuse—against Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, <a href="/wiki/John_Yoo" title="John Yoo">John Yoo</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Tenet" title="George Tenet">George Tenet</a> and others.<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006" title="Military Commissions Act of 2006">Military Commissions Act of 2006</a> is seen by some as an <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_law" title="Amnesty law">amnesty law</a> for crimes committed in the War on Terror by retroactively rewriting the War Crimes Act<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and by abolishing <i><a href="/wiki/Habeas_corpus" title="Habeas corpus">habeas corpus</a></i>, effectively making it impossible for detainees to challenge crimes committed against them.<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Luis_Moreno-Ocampo" class="mw-redirect" title="Luis Moreno-Ocampo">Luis Moreno-Ocampo</a> told <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Telegraph" title="The Sunday Telegraph">The Sunday Telegraph</a></i> in 2007 that he was willing to start an inquiry by the <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a> (ICC), and possibly a trial, for war crimes committed in Iraq involving British Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> and American President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though under the <a href="/wiki/Rome_Statute" title="Rome Statute">Rome Statute</a>, the ICC has no jurisdiction over Bush, since the U.S. is not a State Party to the relevant treaty—unless Bush were accused of crimes inside a State Party, or the <a href="/wiki/UN_Security_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Security Council">UN Security Council</a> (where the U.S. has a veto) requested an investigation. However, Blair does fall under ICC jurisdiction as Britain is a State Party.<sup id="cite_ref-cicc-ratification_160-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cicc-ratification-160"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shortly before the end of President Bush's second term in 2009, news media in countries other than the U.S. began publishing the views of those who believe that under the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_Against_Torture" title="United Nations Convention Against Torture">United Nations Convention Against Torture</a>, the U.S. is obligated to hold those responsible for prisoner abuse to account under <a href="/wiki/Criminal_law" title="Criminal law">criminal law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Calls_for_prosecution_161-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Calls_for_prosecution-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One proponent of this view was the United Nations <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_special_rapporteur" title="United Nations special rapporteur">Special Rapporteur</a> on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Professor <a href="/wiki/Manfred_Nowak" title="Manfred Nowak">Manfred Nowak</a>) who, on 20 January 2009, remarked on German television that former president George W. Bush had lost his <a href="/wiki/Head_of_state_immunity" class="mw-redirect" title="Head of state immunity">head of state immunity</a> and under international law the U.S. would now be mandated to start <a href="/wiki/Criminal_proceedings" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminal proceedings">criminal proceedings</a> against all those involved in these violations of the UN Convention Against Torture.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Law professor <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dietmar_Herz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dietmar Herz (page does not exist)">Dietmar Herz</a> explained Nowak's comments by opining that under U.S. and international law former President Bush is criminally responsible for adopting torture as an interrogation tool. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021)"><span id="War_in_Afghanistan_.282001.E2.80.932021.29"></span>War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)</a></div> <p>In 2005, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> obtained a 2,000-page <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> investigatory report concerning the <a href="/wiki/Homicide" title="Homicide">homicides</a> of two unarmed <a href="/wiki/Civilian" title="Civilian">civilian</a> <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghan</a> prisoners by <a href="/wiki/Military_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of the United States">U.S. military personnel</a> in December 2002 at the <a href="/wiki/Bagram_Theater_Internment_Facility" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagram Theater Internment Facility">Bagram Theater Internment Facility</a> (also <i>Bagram Collection Point</i> or <i>B.C.P.</i>) in <a href="/wiki/Bagram" title="Bagram">Bagram</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, and general treatment of prisoners. The two prisoners, <a href="/wiki/Habibullah_(Bagram_detainee)" title="Habibullah (Bagram detainee)">Habibullah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dilawar_(torture_victim)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dilawar (torture victim)">Dilawar</a>, were repeatedly <a href="/wiki/Bagram_torture_and_prisoner_abuse" title="Bagram torture and prisoner abuse">chained to the ceiling and beaten</a>, resulting in their deaths. Military <a href="/wiki/Coroner" title="Coroner">coroners</a> ruled that both the prisoners' deaths were homicides. <a href="/wiki/Autopsy" title="Autopsy">Autopsies</a> revealed severe trauma to both prisoners' legs, describing the trauma as comparable to being run over by a bus. Seven soldiers were charged in 2005. In January 2006, two soldiers were found guilty of <a href="/wiki/July_2005_Afghan_captive_incident" title="July 2005 Afghan captive incident">beating captives held in Forward Operating Base Ripley</a> in a separate incident. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gul_Mudin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Gul_Mudin.jpg/220px-Gul_Mudin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Gul_Mudin.jpg/330px-Gul_Mudin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Gul_Mudin.jpg/440px-Gul_Mudin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="637" /></a><figcaption>Afghan boy killed on 15 January 2010 by US Army soldiers during the <a href="/wiki/Maywand_District_murders" title="Maywand District murders">Maywand District murders</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Maywand_District_murders" title="Maywand District murders">Maywand District murders</a> involved the killing of three <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Afghanistan" title="Demographics of Afghanistan">Afghan civilians</a> by a group of soldiers during the period June 2009 to June 2010. The soldiers referred to their group as "Kill Team"<sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and were members of the 2nd Battalion, <a href="/wiki/1st_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="1st Infantry Regiment (United States)">1st Infantry Regiment</a>, of the 5th Brigade, <a href="/wiki/2nd_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" title="2nd Infantry Division (United States)">2nd Infantry Division</a>. They were based at <a href="/wiki/Forward_Operating_Base_Sarkari_Karez" title="Forward Operating Base Sarkari Karez">FOB Ramrod</a> in <a href="/wiki/Maiwand" title="Maiwand">Maiwand</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Kandahar_Province" title="Kandahar Province">Kandahar Province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SeattleTimes2010-08-24a_169-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SeattleTimes2010-08-24a-169"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the summer of 2010, the military charged five members of the platoon with the murders of three Afghan civilians in <a href="/wiki/Kandahar_Province" title="Kandahar Province">Kandahar Province</a> and collecting their body parts as trophies. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Kandahar_massacre" title="Kandahar massacre">Kandahar massacre</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Mass_murder" title="Mass murder">mass murder</a> that occurred in the early hours of 11 March 2012, when Staff Sergeant <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bales" title="Robert Bales">Robert Bales</a> killed 16 Afghan civilians and wounded six others in the <a href="/wiki/Panjwayi_District" title="Panjwayi District">Panjwayi District</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kandahar_Province" title="Kandahar Province">Kandahar Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>. Nine of the victims were children, and 11 of the dead were from the same family. Bales was taken into custody later that morning when he confessed to authorities that he had committed the murders. </p><p>First Lieutenant <a href="/wiki/Clint_Lorance" title="Clint Lorance">Clint Lorance</a> was an <a href="/wiki/Infantry_Branch_(United_States)" title="Infantry Branch (United States)">infantry</a> platoon leader in the <a href="/wiki/4th_Brigade_Combat_Team,_82nd_Airborne_Division" title="4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division">4th Brigade Combat Team</a> of the <a href="/wiki/82nd_Airborne_Division" title="82nd Airborne Division">82nd Airborne Division</a>. In 2012, Lorance was charged with two counts of unpremeditated murder after he ordered his soldiers to open fire on three Afghan men who were on a motorcycle. He was found guilty by a <a href="/wiki/Court-martial" title="Court-martial">court-martial</a> in 2013 and sentenced to 20 years in prison (later reduced to 19 years by the reviewing commanding general).<sup id="cite_ref-washingtonpost1_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-washingtonpost1-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0b_171-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0b-171"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Luperon_172-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Luperon-172"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was confined in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks" title="United States Disciplinary Barracks">United States Disciplinary Barracks</a> at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Leavenworth" title="Fort Leavenworth">Fort Leavenworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>, for six years. Lorance was eventually <a href="/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States" title="Federal pardons in the United States">pardoned</a> by President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> on 15 November 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iraq_War">Iraq War</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abu_Ghraib_48.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Abu_Ghraib_48.jpg/220px-Abu_Ghraib_48.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Abu_Ghraib_48.jpg/330px-Abu_Ghraib_48.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Abu_Ghraib_48.jpg/440px-Abu_Ghraib_48.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="2055" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sabrina_Harman" title="Sabrina Harman">Sabrina Harman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Graner" title="Charles Graner">Charles Graner</a> with naked and hooded prisoners forced to form a human pyramid, during the <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse" title="Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse">Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse</a></figcaption></figure> <p>During the early stages of the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a>, a group of soldiers committed a series of <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a> violations including <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse" title="Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse">physical and sexual abuse</a> against detainees in the <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prison" title="Abu Ghraib prison">Abu Ghraib prison</a> in Iraq.<sup id="cite_ref-New_Yorker_2004-05-17_174-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_Yorker_2004-05-17-174"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Benjamin2009_175-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Benjamin2009-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hersh2007_176-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hersh2007-176"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-walsh2006_177-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-walsh2006-177"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The abuses came to public attention with the publication of photographs of the abuse by <a href="/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a> in April 2004. The incidents caused shock and outrage, receiving widespread condemnation within the United States and internationally.<sup id="cite_ref-Sontag_178-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sontag-178"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Department of Defense charged eleven soldiers with <a href="/wiki/Dereliction_of_duty" class="mw-redirect" title="Dereliction of duty">dereliction of duty</a>, maltreatment, <a href="/wiki/Aggravated_assault" class="mw-redirect" title="Aggravated assault">aggravated assault</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battery_(crime)" title="Battery (crime)">battery</a>. Between May 2004 and April 2006, these soldiers were <a href="/wiki/Courts-martial" class="mw-redirect" title="Courts-martial">court-martialed</a>, convicted, sentenced to <a href="/wiki/Military_prison" title="Military prison">military prison</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dishonorable_discharge" class="mw-redirect" title="Dishonorable discharge">dishonorably discharged</a> from service. Two soldiers, found to have perpetrated many of the worst offenses at the prison, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Graner" title="Charles Graner">Charles Graner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lynndie_England" title="Lynndie England">Lynndie England</a>, were subject to more severe charges and received harsher sentences. Graner was convicted of assault, <a href="/wiki/Battery_(crime)" title="Battery (crime)">battery</a>, conspiracy, maltreatment of detainees, committing indecent acts and dereliction of duty; he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and loss of rank, pay and benefits.<sup id="cite_ref-graner_gets_10_years_179-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-graner_gets_10_years-179"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> England was convicted of <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy (crime)">conspiracy</a>, maltreating detainees and committing an indecent act and sentenced to three years in prison.<sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brigadier General <a href="/wiki/Janis_Karpinski" title="Janis Karpinski">Janis Karpinski</a>, the commanding officer of all detention facilities in Iraq, was reprimanded and demoted to the rank of colonel. Several more military personnel who were accused of perpetrating or authorizing the measures, including many of higher rank, were not prosecuted. In 2004, President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and Defense Secretary <a href="/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld" title="Donald Rumsfeld">Donald Rumsfeld</a> apologized for the Abu Ghraib abuses. </p><p>On 12 March 2006, a 14-year-old Iraqi girl named Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi was <a href="/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings" title="Mahmudiyah rape and killings">raped and subsequently murdered</a> along with her 34-year-old mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhasen, 45-year-old father Qassim Hamza Raheem, and 6-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza al-Janabi. The killings took place in the family home in <a href="/wiki/Yusufiyah" title="Yusufiyah">Yusufiyah</a>, a village to the west of the town of <a href="/wiki/Mahmoudiyah,_Iraq" title="Mahmoudiyah, Iraq">Al-Mahmudiyah</a>, Iraq.<sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Five soldiers from the <a href="/wiki/502nd_Infantry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="502nd Infantry Regiment">502nd Infantry Regiment</a> were charged with rape and murder: Paul E. Cortez, James P. Barker, Jesse V. Spielman, Bryan L. Howard, and <a href="/wiki/Steven_D._Green" class="mw-redirect" title="Steven D. Green">Steven Dale Green</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0a_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0a-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Green was discharged from the U.S. Army for <a href="/wiki/Mental_instability" class="mw-redirect" title="Mental instability">mental instability</a> before the crimes were known by his command, whereas Cortez, Barker, Spielman and Howard were tried by a military court martial, convicted, and sentenced to decades in prison.<sup id="cite_ref-:0a_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0a-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Green was tried and convicted in a United States civilian court and was sentenced to <a href="/wiki/Life_in_prison" class="mw-redirect" title="Life in prison">life in prison</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-greenNews_182-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greenNews-182"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but committed suicide in prison in 2014. </p><p><a href="/wiki/John_E._Hatley" title="John E. Hatley">John E. Hatley</a> was a <a href="/wiki/First_sergeant" title="First sergeant">first sergeant</a> who was prosecuted by the Army in 2008 for murdering four Iraqi detainees near <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, Iraq in 2006. He was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to life in prison at the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Leavenworth_Disciplinary_Barracks" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks">Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-clemency_183-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clemency-183"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was released on parole in October 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-ArmyTimes_184-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ArmyTimes-184"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Hamdania_incident" title="Hamdania incident">Hamdania incident</a> involved the kidnapping and subsequent murder of an Iraqi man by <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marines</a> on 26 April 2006, in Al Hamdania, a small village west of <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> near <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ghraib" title="Abu Ghraib">Abu Ghraib</a>. An investigation by the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Criminal_Investigative_Service" title="Naval Criminal Investigative Service">Naval Criminal Investigative Service</a> resulted in <a href="/wiki/Indictment" title="Indictment">charges</a> of <a href="/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">murder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kidnapping" title="Kidnapping">kidnapping</a>, housebreaking, larceny, obstruction of justice and <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy (crime)">conspiracy</a> associated with the alleged <a href="/wiki/Cover-up" title="Cover-up">coverup</a> of the incident. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2005_Marine_Killings_in_Haditha.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/2005_Marine_Killings_in_Haditha.jpg/220px-2005_Marine_Killings_in_Haditha.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="101" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/2005_Marine_Killings_in_Haditha.jpg/330px-2005_Marine_Killings_in_Haditha.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/2005_Marine_Killings_in_Haditha.jpg/440px-2005_Marine_Killings_in_Haditha.jpg 2x" data-file-width="444" data-file-height="203" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Haditha_massacre" title="Haditha massacre">Haditha massacre</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Haditha_massacre" title="Haditha massacre">Haditha massacre</a> occurred on 19 November 2005, in Haditha, Iraq. After Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas (20 years old) was killed by a roadside <a href="/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device" title="Improvised explosive device">improvised explosive device</a>, Staff Sergeant <a href="/wiki/Frank_Wuterich" title="Frank Wuterich">Frank Wuterich</a> led Marines from the 3rd battalion into Haditha.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_185-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-185"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 24 Iraqi women and children were fatally shot. Wuterich acknowledged in military court that he gave his men the order to "shoot first, ask questions later"<sup id="cite_ref-:02_186-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-186"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after the roadside bomb explosion. Wuterich told military judge Lt. Col. David Jones "I never fired my weapon at any women or children that day." On 24 January 2012, Frank Wuterich was given a sentence of 90 days in prison along with a reduction in rank and pay. The day prior, Wuterich pled guilty to one count of negligent dereliction of duty.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_185-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-185"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No other marine that was involved that day was sentenced to any jail time. For the massacre, the Marine Corps paid $38,000 total to the families of 15 of the dead civilians.<sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Nisour_Square_massacre" title="Nisour Square massacre">Nisour Square massacre</a> occurred on 16 September 2007, when employees of <a href="/wiki/Blackwater_(company)" title="Blackwater (company)">Blackwater Security Consulting</a> (now Constellis), a <a href="/wiki/Private_military_company" title="Private military company">private military company</a> contracted by the US government to provide security services in Iraq, shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, while escorting a U.S. embassy convoy.<sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Devereaux_190-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Devereaux-190"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The killings outraged Iraqis and strained relations between Iraq and the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, four Blackwater employees were tried<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_verdict_2_192-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_verdict_2-192"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and convicted in U.S. federal court; one of murder, and the other three of manslaughter and firearms charges;<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_verdict_193-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_verdict-193"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> all four convicted were controversially pardoned<sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> in December 2020,<sup id="cite_ref-NYT20201213_195-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT20201213-195"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in violation of international law.<sup id="cite_ref-196" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-196"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_war_crimes" title="British war crimes">British war crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_war_crimes" title="German war crimes">German war crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes" title="Israeli war crimes">Israeli war crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_war_crimes" title="Italian war crimes">Italian war crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes" title="Japanese war crimes">Japanese war crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_war_crimes" title="Russian war crimes">Russian war crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_war_crimes" title="Turkish war crimes">Turkish war crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates_war_crimes" title="United Arab Emirates war crimes">United Arab Emirates war crimes</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The caption for the photograph in the <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">U.S. National Archives</a> reads, "SC208765, Soldiers of the 42nd Infantry Division, U.S. Seventh Army, order SS men to come forward when one of their number tried to escape from the Dachau, Germany, concentration camp after it was captured by U.S. forces. Men on the ground in background feign death by falling as the guards fired a volley at the fleeing SS men. (157th Regt. 4/29/45)."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-139"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-139">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Prisoner_abuse" title="Prisoner abuse">Prisoner abuse</a><sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-147"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-147">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">War Crimes warnings<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a> challenged the premise on which this argument is based in <i><a href="/wiki/Hamdan_v._Rumsfeld" title="Hamdan v. Rumsfeld">Hamdan v. 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The officials said there also was a videotape, apparently shot by U.S. personnel, showing Iraqi guards raping young boys.'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=Chain+of+Command&rft.date=2004-05-17&rft.aulast=Hersh&rft.aufirst=Seymour+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2004%2F05%2F17%2Fchain-of-command-2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Benjamin2009-175"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Benjamin2009_175-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBenjamin2008" class="citation news cs1">Benjamin, Mark (30 May 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.salon.com/2009/05/30/taguba_2/">"Taguba denies he's seen abuse photos suppressed by Obama: The general told a U.K. paper about images he saw investigating Abu Ghraib – not photos Obama wants kept secret"</a>. <i>Salon.com</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090611145722/http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/30/taguba/">Archived</a> from the original on 11 June 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 June</span> 2009</span>. <q>The paper quoted Taguba as saying, 'These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency.' ... The actual quote in the Telegraph was accurate, Taguba said – but he was referring to the hundreds of images he reviewed as an investigator of the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Salon.com&rft.atitle=Taguba+denies+he%27s+seen+abuse+photos+suppressed+by+Obama%3A+The+general+told+a+U.K.+paper+about+images+he+saw+investigating+Abu+Ghraib+%E2%80%93+not+photos+Obama+wants+kept+secret.&rft.date=2008-05-30&rft.aulast=Benjamin&rft.aufirst=Mark&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2F2009%2F05%2F30%2Ftaguba_2%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hersh2007-176"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-hersh2007_176-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHersh2007" class="citation magazine cs1"><a href="/wiki/Seymour_Hersh" title="Seymour Hersh">Hersh, Seymour Myron</a> (25 June 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh">"The General's Report: how Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070912104000/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh?printable=true">Archived</a> from the original on 12 September 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 February</span> 2008</span>. <q>The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology later ruled al-Jamadi's death a homicide, caused by 'blunt force injuries to the torso complicated by compromised respiration.'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Salon.com&rft.atitle=Other+government+agencies&rft.date=2006-03-14&rft.aulast=Walsh&rft.aufirst=Joan&rft.au=Michael+Scherer&rft.au=Mark+Benjamin&rft.au=Page+Rockwell&rft.au=Jeanne+Carstensen&rft.au=Mark+Follman&rft.au=Page+Rockwell&rft.au=Tracy+Clark-Flory&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2F2006%2F03%2F14%2Fchapter_5%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Sontag-178"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Sontag_178-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSontag2004" class="citation news cs1">Sontag, Susan (23 May 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/magazine/regarding-the-torture-of-others.html">"Regarding The Torture Of Others"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Magazine" title="The New York Times Magazine">The New York Times Magazine</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170902101726/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/magazine/regarding-the-torture-of-others.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm">Archived</a> from the original on 2 September 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times+Magazine&rft.atitle=Regarding+The+Torture+Of+Others&rft.date=2004-05-23&rft.aulast=Sontag&rft.aufirst=Susan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2004%2F05%2F23%2Fmagazine%2Fregarding-the-torture-of-others.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-graner_gets_10_years-179"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-graner_gets_10_years_179-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6795956">"Graner gets 10 years for Abu Ghraib abuse"</a>. <i>NBC News</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 January</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Reuters&rft.atitle=Trump+pardon+of+Blackwater+Iraq+contractors+violates+international+law+%E2%80%93+UN&rft.date=2020-12-30&rft.aulast=Nebehay&rft.aufirst=Stephanie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-iraq-blackwater-un-idUSKBN294108&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZinn2003" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Howard_Zinn" title="Howard Zinn">Zinn, Howard</a> (2003) [1980]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/peopleshistoryof00howa/page/1"><i>A People's History of the United States</i></a>. New York: HarperCollins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-052837-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-052837-9"><bdi>978-0-06-052837-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+People%27s+History+of+the+United+States&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-06-052837-9&rft.aulast=Zinn&rft.aufirst=Howard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpeopleshistoryof00howa%2Fpage%2F1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General">General</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJeremy_BrecherJill_CutlerBrendan_Smith2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Brecher" title="Jeremy Brecher">Jeremy Brecher</a>; Jill Cutler; Brendan Smith, eds. (2005). <i>In the name of democracy: American war crimes in Iraq and beyond</i>. Macmillan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8050-7969-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8050-7969-2"><bdi>978-0-8050-7969-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=In+the+name+of+democracy%3A+American+war+crimes+in+Iraq+and+beyond&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-8050-7969-2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVincent_Bugliosi2008" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Bugliosi" title="Vincent Bugliosi">Vincent Bugliosi</a> (2008). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/prosecutionofgeo0000bugl"><i>The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder</i></a></span>. Vanguard. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59315-481-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59315-481-3"><bdi>978-1-59315-481-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Prosecution+of+George+W.+Bush+for+Murder&rft.pub=Vanguard&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-1-59315-481-3&rft.au=Vincent+Bugliosi&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fprosecutionofgeo0000bugl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrederick_Henry_Gareau2004" class="citation book cs1">Frederick Henry Gareau (2004). <i>State terrorism and the United States: from counterinsurgency to the war on terrorism</i>. Zed Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84277-535-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84277-535-6"><bdi>978-1-84277-535-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=State+terrorism+and+the+United+States%3A+from+counterinsurgency+to+the+war+on+terrorism&rft.pub=Zed+Books&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-1-84277-535-6&rft.au=Frederick+Henry+Gareau&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMichael_Haas2008" class="citation book cs1">Michael Haas (2008). <i>George W. Bush, war criminal?: the Bush administration's liability for 269 war crimes</i>. ABC-CLIO. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-313-36499-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-313-36499-0"><bdi>978-0-313-36499-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=George+W.+Bush%2C+war+criminal%3F%3A+the+Bush+administration%27s+liability+for+269+war+crimes&rft.pub=ABC-CLIO&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-313-36499-0&rft.au=Michael+Haas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJordan_J._Paust2007" class="citation book cs1">Jordan J. Paust (2007). <i>Beyond the law: the Bush Administration's unlawful responses in the "War" on Terror</i>. Cambridge University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-71120-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-71120-3"><bdi>978-0-521-71120-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Beyond+the+law%3A+the+Bush+Administration%27s+unlawful+responses+in+the+%22War%22+on+Terror&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-0-521-71120-3&rft.au=Jordan+J.+Paust&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPhysicians_for_Human_RightsHuman_Rights_First2007" class="citation book cs1">Physicians for Human Rights; Human Rights First (August 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100809183525/http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/documents/reports/leave-no-marks.pdf"><i>Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Washington, DC. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-879707-53-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-879707-53-5"><bdi>978-1-879707-53-5</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/19187545">19187545</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://phr.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/leave-no-marks-1.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 9 August 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 August</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Leave+No+Marks%3A+Enhanced+Interrogation+Techniques+and+the+Risk+of+Criminality&rft.place=Washington%2C+DC&rft.date=2007-08&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F19187545&rft.isbn=978-1-879707-53-5&rft.au=Physicians+for+Human+Rights&rft.au=Human+Rights+First&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fphr.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2007%2F08%2Fleave-no-marks-1.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMark_SeldenAlvin_Y._So2004" class="citation book cs1">Mark Selden; Alvin Y. So, eds. (2004). <i>War and state terrorism: the United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the long twentieth century</i>. Rowman & Littlefield. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7425-2391-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7425-2391-3"><bdi>978-0-7425-2391-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=War+and+state+terrorism%3A+the+United+States%2C+Japan%2C+and+the+Asia-Pacific+in+the+long+twentieth+century&rft.pub=Rowman+%26+Littlefield&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-7425-2391-3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="By_nation">By nation</h3></div> <p><b>Iraq</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRichard_A._FalkIrene_L._GendzierRobert_Jay_Lifton2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Richard_A._Falk" title="Richard A. Falk">Richard A. Falk</a>; Irene L. Gendzier; <a href="/wiki/Robert_Jay_Lifton" title="Robert Jay Lifton">Robert Jay Lifton</a>, eds. (2006). <i>Crimes of war: Iraq</i>. Nation Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-56025-803-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-56025-803-2"><bdi>978-1-56025-803-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Crimes+of+war%3A+Iraq&rft.pub=Nation+Books&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-1-56025-803-2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRamsey_Clark1992" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Clark" title="Ramsey Clark">Ramsey Clark</a> (1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/warcrimes00rams"><i>War crimes: a report on United States war crimes against Iraq</i></a>. Maisonneuve Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-944624-15-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-944624-15-9"><bdi>978-0-944624-15-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=War+crimes%3A+a+report+on+United+States+war+crimes+against+Iraq&rft.pub=Maisonneuve+Press&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=978-0-944624-15-9&rft.au=Ramsey+Clark&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwarcrimes00rams&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNafeez_Mosaddeq_Ahmed2003" class="citation book cs1">Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed (2003). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780865715066"><i>Behind the war on terror: western secret strategy and the struggle for Iraq</i></a></span>. New Society Publishers. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780865715066/page/86">86</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-86571-506-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-86571-506-6"><bdi>978-0-86571-506-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Behind+the+war+on+terror%3A+western+secret+strategy+and+the+struggle+for+Iraq&rft.pages=86&rft.pub=New+Society+Publishers&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-86571-506-6&rft.au=Nafeez+Mosaddeq+Ahmed&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fisbn_9780865715066&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMarjorie_Cohn2006" class="citation web cs1">Marjorie Cohn (9 November 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2006/11/donald-rumsfeld-war-crimes-case.php">"Donald Rumsfeld: The War Crimes Case"</a>. <i>The Jurist</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Jurist&rft.atitle=Donald+Rumsfeld%3A+The+War+Crimes+Case&rft.date=2006-11-09&rft.au=Marjorie+Cohn&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fjurist.law.pitt.edu%2Fforumy%2F2006%2F11%2Fdonald-rumsfeld-war-crimes-case.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUlrike_Demmer2007" class="citation news cs1">Ulrike Demmer (26 March 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,473987,00.html">"Wanted For War Crimes: Rumsfeld Lawsuit Embarrasses German Authorities"</a>. <i>Der Spiegel</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Der+Spiegel&rft.atitle=Wanted+For+War+Crimes%3A+Rumsfeld+Lawsuit+Embarrasses+German+Authorities&rft.date=2007-03-26&rft.au=Ulrike+Demmer&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Fworld%2F0%2C1518%2C473987%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPatrick_Donahue2007" class="citation news cs1">Patrick Donahue (27 April 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a3ZI8uTWUHVo&refer=germany">"German Prosecutor Won't Set Rumsfeld Probe Following Complaint"</a>. <i>Bloomberg L.P</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bloomberg+L.P.&rft.atitle=German+Prosecutor+Won%27t+Set+Rumsfeld+Probe+Following+Complaint&rft.date=2007-04-27&rft.au=Patrick+Donahue&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fapps%2Fnews%3Fpid%3Dnewsarchive%26sid%3Da3ZI8uTWUHVo%26refer%3Dgermany&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <p><b>Vietnam</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreiner,_BerndAnne_Wyburd2009" class="citation book cs1">Greiner, Bernd; Anne Wyburd (2009). <i>War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam</i>. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-15451-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-300-15451-1"><bdi>978-0-300-15451-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=War+Without+Fronts%3A+The+USA+in+Vietnam&rft.place=New+Haven%2C+Conn&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-300-15451-1&rft.au=Greiner%2C+Bernd&rft.au=Anne+Wyburd&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDeborah_Nelson2008" class="citation book cs1">Deborah Nelson (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/warbehindmevietn00nels_0"><i>The war behind me: Vietnam veterans confront the truth about U.S. war crimes</i></a>. Basic Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-465-00527-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-465-00527-7"><bdi>978-0-465-00527-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+war+behind+me%3A+Vietnam+veterans+confront+the+truth+about+U.S.+war+crimes&rft.pub=Basic+Books&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-465-00527-7&rft.au=Deborah+Nelson&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fwarbehindmevietn00nels_0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUnited+States+war+crimes" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNick_Turse2013" class="citation book cs1">Nick Turse (2013). <i>Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam</i>. 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style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;">War crimes by type</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Attacks on <a href="/wiki/Attacks_on_humanitarian_workers" title="Attacks on humanitarian workers">humanitarian workers</a> / <a href="/wiki/Attacks_on_parachutists" title="Attacks on parachutists">parachutists</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children_in_the_military" title="Children in the military">Child soldiers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collective_punishment" title="Collective punishment">Collective punishment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criminal_order_(international_law)" title="Criminal order (international law)">Criminal orders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_flights" title="Death flights">Death flights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_march" title="Death march">Death marches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desecration_of_graves" class="mw-redirect" 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