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Vietnam: The War Crime Files

Number 22916
Subject War
Source Los Angeles Times
State CA
Year 2006
Publication Date 08/06/2006; 08/20/2006
Summary "An LA Times investigation- based on thousands of declassified records from the Army chief of staff's office, scores of interviews and a trip to Vietnam- found that U.S. troops reported more than 800 war crimes in Vietnam, yet many were publicly discredited even as the military uncovered evidence that they were telling the truth."
Category Tom Renner Award - Finalist
Pages 53
Keywords Vietnam; war crime; army; military; torture; murder; My Lai; Seymour Hersh; national archive
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