The Mỹ Lai Massacre
Of Nineteen Sixty Eight.
Followed by a deluge
Of scathing evidences
Fresh revelations and
Authentic testimonies,
International community
Wanted the U.S. to act.
Bowing under the pressure
the Nixon-Kissinger axis
finally conducted investigation
and court-martialled
twenty six service personnel,
but convicted only one
Lieutenant William Calley Jr.,
a platoon leader in C Company,
sentenced for life in prison.
Nixon ordered his release
after just three and a half years.
Justice undone,
whitewash completed.
The legacy of Nixon and Kissinger, the vilest racists and white-supremacists are the root cause of today's racist turmoil in the US. With Contributions from the mentally disabled trumps
Wikipedia reports that Along with the No Gun Ri massacre in South Korea 18 years earlier, Mỹ Lai was one of the largest publicized massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century
The biggest joke is that, the same US is now indicting Putin of war crimes. There is no end to double standards…
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Justice was undone by Nixon and Kissinger. An indelible blot on the US System of Justices and Judicial system.