Tiger Force & Vietnam

Tiger Force & Vietnam

(EXCERPT) Pacific News Service Updated on 2003-11-01 10:59:32

'TIGER FORCE' AND THE COST OF FORGETTING AMERICA'S CRIMES IN VIETNAM

EDITOR'S NOTE: Why are recent revelations of the actions of a
homicidal U.S. paratroop unit in Vietnam getting so little press? U.S.
refusal to acknowledge and take responsibility for its war crimes,
writes PNS contributor Joesph Nevins, enables further misguided and
destructive foreign adventures. Nevins, an assistant professor of
geography at Vassar College, is the author of "A Not-So Distant
Horror: Making and Accounting for Mass Violence in East Timor," which
Cornell University Press will publish in early 2005., by JOSEPH
NEVINS, PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE

A platoon of 45 highly trained soldiers deliberately killed hundreds
of unarmed men, women and children in a seven-month period. They
tortured and executed prisoners, kicked out the teeth of the dead for
gold fillings, and cut of...

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