"Only 17 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China have not participated in armed conflict" Western media took stock of the history of war crimes in the United States

Source: Refer to the news network

Reference News Network reported on September 16 that the website of the Spanish "Uprising" newspaper recently published an article entitled "The United States and Its History of War Crimes", written by the American expert Fernando A. M. Garcia Bielsa. The full text is excerpted as follows:

With the so-called "war on terror" manipulated by man, the United States has created a new cycle of death and profit for the military industry since 2001, and the cumulative number of victims has exceeded the terrible bombing of two Japanese cities in 1945.

Killing Native Americans

It all started a long time ago. Violence and war are part of the American people. The repeated crimes and massacres of colonizers, the wars waged by federal forces against indigenous North American Indians, and the expulsion of them from ancestral lands included and in some ways exceeded the concept of war crimes.

The killing and attempts to exterminate Native Americans fully conform to the definition of genocide in existing international law.

According to historical records and media reports, since the founding of the United States, through assassination, expulsion, forced assimilation, etc., it has systematically deprived indigenous peoples of their right to life and basic political, economic and cultural rights, in an attempt to eliminate these ethnic groups materially and culturally. Even today, indigenous Indians face a serious existential crisis.

Survivors of indigenous peoples are grounded in barren land. Many children are taken from their parents and sent to boarding schools, where their hair is cut off and their language and rituals are canceled, a cultural genocide. The practice of breaking up many indigenous families and having their children adopted has continued for decades.

Statistics show that since independence in 1776, the U.S. government has carried out more than 1,500 attacks on indigenous tribes, slaughtering indigenous people, seizing their land, and committing countless atrocious crimes.

The most notorious crime was the "Bear River Massacre" in Idaho in 1863, in which 350 members of the Shawshawny were killed; There was also the "Wounded Knee River Massacre" in South Dakota on December 29, 1890.

In the early colonial period of 1619, about 2 million local Native Americans lived in what is now the United States. In the three centuries that followed, many died of disease, and many more died of violence by settlers and federal troops seizing lands and expanding westward. It is estimated that after the brutal extinctions of the 19th century, in about 1900, only one in ten indigenous people survived, numbering less than 240,000. At that time, the phrase "only dead Indians are good Indians" was particularly popular.

Rape cases are not uncommon

The United States has not been involved in armed conflict for only 17 years since its founding in 1776. In many cases, especially over the past two centuries, the war crimes committed by the United States are evident in the context of the quest for global domination and the use of force.

During World War II, during the liberation of France and the occupation of Germany, it was not uncommon for the U.S. military to rape women and mass executions of captive combatants.

The secret wartime archives, which were not made public until 2006, although apparently only partially counted, show that American soldiers committed hundreds of sexual offences in Europe between 1942 and 1945, including 126 rapes in Britain.

In addition, Robert M. A survey conducted by J. Lilly estimated that some 14,000 civilian women in Britain, France and Germany were raped by American soldiers during World War I.

The United States occupying forces also frequently violated human rights in Japan. Researchers estimate that as many as tens of thousands of women have been raped by U.S. forces in Okinawa alone, many of which go unreported or ignored. It is revealed that after Japan's surrender, there were at least 1,336 rapes in the first 10 days of the U.S. occupation of Kanagawa Prefecture.

Similarly, during the Korean War, U.S. forces carried out a variety of abuses, including the execution of prisoners and the murder of unarmed civilians. In July 1950, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment opened fire on fleeing civilians in Laogenri, killing about 400 refugees, most of them women and children.

Large-scale use of Agent Orange

During the invasion of Vietnam, 58,000 Americans and about 3 million Vietnamese were killed, including hundreds of thousands of civilians.

In April 1971, John Kerry, who later became senator and secretary of state of the Obama administration, described in his Senate statement as a veteran of that war how U.S. soldiers were committing in Vietnam at the time included "burning villages with civilians, cutting off ears and beheadings, torturing prisoners... and a series of evil deeds, such as shelling of unarmed villagers, but these evil deeds have not been punished.

Here is the example of the "My Lai Massacre". On March 16, 1968, U.S. forces massively killed 504 unarmed locals, almost all of them civilians, mostly women and children, near the village of My Lai. Some victims were raped, beaten, tortured or mutilated.

Of the 26 U.S. soldiers initially charged with criminal or war crimes in connection with the massacre, only William Cali was convicted. Cali was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, which was later reduced to ten years and eventually released after three and a half years of house arrest.

Another extremely serious crime of the U.S. military, which Kerry mentioned in his statement, was the large-scale use of chemical agents against the Vietnamese people, especially the infamous "Agent Orange" and other deciduous agents. The U.S. military sprayed tens of millions of liters of this corrosive compound into Vietnam's dense jungles in an attempt to discover Viet Cong hideouts and supply routes.

Between 1961 and 1973, the U.S. Air Force dumped large quantities of chemicals in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, more than 60 percent of which were Agent Orange. The poisoning of these countries and their peoples by the U.S. military remains one of the worst war crimes since World War II. 50 years later, Agent Orange continues to corrode Vietnam's soil and affect people's health.

The evidence of war crimes is conclusive

The United States has waged a protracted war in Afghanistan. In those 20 years, the US military committed countless crimes of abuse, looting and so on.

The International Criminal Court, of which the United States is not a member, said there was sufficient evidence that the U.S. military "tortured, ill-treated, violated personal dignity, rape and sexual violence, mainly in Afghanistan and elsewhere, in Afghanistan and elsewhere." But because of U.S. obstruction and refusal to cooperate, no single case has initiated judicial proceedings so far. Even when the International Criminal Court launched an investigation into U.S. war atrocities in Afghanistan, the United States imposed sanctions on the Court's personnel.

The War Cost Project at Brown University estimates that more than 46,000 Afghan civilians have been killed in the longest war in U.S. history. The U.S. military drone attack on August 29, 2021, is not the first time that Afghan civilians have been killed in such a bombshell under the banner of the war on terror.

What has not yet been mentioned is the many atrocities of the US military in other regions, such as NATO's close-range bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia without the approval of the United Nations... Abound.

There is no doubt that the United States is the largest perpetrator of war crimes, both in terms of numbers and scale. Since the birth of the United States, many of the atrocities committed by its regime have never received the attention they deserve from the media and various international institutions.