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Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | March 26, 1988 issue

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The article discusses war crimes, which are alleged to be the crime of choices on the part of the United States in the Vietnam War where macabre bloodshed and untold devastation took place. The U.S. didn't just threaten to bomb Vietnam back to the Stone Age; it went right ahead and did so. The trench filled with 583 bodies-Vietnamese men, women and children systematically killed by soldiers in Charlie Company over a number of hours starting at 7:30 A.M., March 16, 1968, Speedy Express saw at least 5,000 noncombatant Vietnamese killed, put a horrible picture. Exposure to the ruins of war in the United States was due entirely to the courage of one man, Ron Ridenhour, U.S. Army photographer.

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WAR crimes; WAR victims; WAR photographers; WAR photography; VIETNAM War, 1961-1975; UNITED States
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