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BIGGEST American war crime cover-up of the Vietnam War
(A Day in History) Sept. 19, 2023: What happens when a group of young American soldiers are let loose in the wilderness with no oversight and a simple instruction: kill anything that moves?
"Tiger Force" is the answer, an elite recon group of the American War on Vietnam whose war crimes were covered up by the US government for decades.
This video looks at the atrocities committed by the men of Tiger Force as they descended into barbarity in the jungles of Vietnam and how the US government tried to hide it from the world.
Origins of Tiger Force
Tiger Force was a long-range reconnaissance patrol unit of the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division.
Like Hitler, we're just following the US example.
It was formed in Nov. 1965 by Major David Hackworth to, quote, “out-guerrilla the guerrillas.” He put it more frankly to another reporter. “I want 40 swinging dicks,” Hackworth had said, men who were free to use their own judgment, skill, and drive to conduct unrestrained warfare [war crime massacres] in the toughest areas of Vietnam to clear.
It usually numbered about 45 men at any one time, but people would rotate out every few months.
For example, 120 different men served in the Tiger Force between July and Dec. 1967.
Usually, Tiger Force would be dropped into an operational area and given effectively free reign to achieve their goal.
Military command maintained minimal oversight of their activities: So long as they racked up a body-count, the brass were happy.
Many soldiers embraced the freedom to kill and lack of bureaucracy that Tiger Force provided, but the absence of accountability or oversight would lead the men of Tiger Force down a dark path.
Arriving in Song Ve
Vietnam? Who cares? We've done worse.
The events that would enshrine them in the history books began to unfold in summer 1967 when the Tiger Force was sent into the Song Ve Valley.
The Song Ve Valley was an agricultural hotspot that was allegedly a hiding place for the Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA).
Tiger Force was instructed to clear out remaining residents of the valley to a nearby refugee camp and then sweep the area for VC soldiers and food caches.
The valley was declared a "free-fire" area -- "shoot first, ask questions later." Civilian casualties were still unacceptable in theory, but enforcing that condition was a whole other matter.
Today, rapper Kendrick Lamar became the first musician (neither classical nor jazz) to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for Music. Kanye West feels jilted and jealous, as he considers himself the greatest rapper who ever lived. Winner Lamar is from Compton, which is in South Central Los Angeles, which makes this a win for the Westside! Lamar has topped the charts with music that tackles issues of race, politics, religion, and even mental health.
The Pulitzer follows the five Grammy Awards won by Lamar in January for “DAMN.,” his fourth studio album. His previous album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” also won five Grammys. Lamar recently produced and curated the soundtrack for the movie “Black Panther” to critical acclaim. Democracy Now! speaks to a progressive black high school teacher, Mr. Mooney, in New Jersey who uses Lamar’s recordings in his classroom. More
Pulitzer for journalist for Rangoon photograph (Reuters; SajaForum.org; Mizzima News, 4/7/08)
Chiang Mai, Thailand -- The photojournalist who snapped pictures of a Japanese video cameraman being shot to death by a Burmese soldier during the Saffron Revolution has won the Pulitzer Prize for his work.
KenjiNagai of APF tries to take photographs as he lies injured after police and military officials fired upon and then charged at protesters in Yangon's city center September 27, 2007. Nagai, 50, a Japanese video journalist, was shot by soldiers as they fired to disperse the crowd. Nagai later died (REUTERS/AdreesLatif).
The Pulitzer Prize Board awarded Reuters News Agency photographer AdreesLatif on Monday for his photograph of the Japanese sprawled on the pavement, after being fatally shot during the uprising by Buddhist monks and Burmese people against the authroitarian military junta in September of 2007.
According to Reuters, AdreesLatif entered Yangon on September, 23, 2007. "Two minutes later, the shooting started. My eye caught a person flying backwards through the air. Instinctively, I started photographing, capturing four frames of the man on his back," Reuters quoted Latif as saying.
"The entry point of the bullet is clear in the first frame, with a soldier in flip flops standing over the man and pointing a rifle. In the second frame, the man is reaching over to try and film." The photographs of the killing taken by some local and foreign photojournalists were spread across the world media.
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