Mỹ Lai 3 - Who Is My Enemy? Poem by Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

The Mỹ Lai Massacre
Of Nineteen Sixty Eight.

At the action-eve briefing
Of The Charlie Company
Captain Ernest Rogue Medina
told his men
'now go and get them'.
Asked a corporal
'Who is my enemy? '
The Rogue replied
'Anybody that was
running from us
hiding from us.
If a man was running
shoot him!
even if a woman
with a rifle
was running,
shoot her! '
'destroy everything
in the village that was
walking, crawling
or growling'.