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    10. houdt_koers on

      It’s often overlooked just how [common](https://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-vietnam6aug06-story.html) massacres like My Lai were, and how far the US military went in covering them up:

      *“Among the substantiated cases in the archive:*

      *• Seven massacres from 1967 through 1971 in which at least 137 civilians died.*

      *• Seventy-eight other attacks on noncombatants in which at least 57 were killed, 56 wounded and 15 sexually assaulted.*

      *• One hundred forty-one instances in which U.S. soldiers tortured civilian detainees or prisoners of war with fists, sticks, bats, water or electric shock.*

      *Investigators determined that evidence against 203 soldiers accused of harming Vietnamese civilians or prisoners was strong enough to warrant formal charges. These “founded” cases were referred to the soldiers’ superiors for action.*

      *Ultimately, 57 of them were court-martialed and just 23 convicted, the records show.*

      *Fourteen received prison sentences ranging from six months to 20 years, but most won significant reductions on appeal. The stiffest sentence went to a military intelligence interrogator convicted of committing indecent acts on a 13-year-old girl in an interrogation hut in 1967.*

      *He served seven months of a 20-year term, the records show.”*

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