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On March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers operating in the Son Tinh district of Quang Nai province in South Vietnam went on a “search and destroy” mission, supposedly for elusive Viet Cong guerrillas who had been killing and maiming them. They found and killed women, children and old men – up to 500 of them, by some counts. [...]
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From the BBC: Mr Gongadze was openly critical of Ukraine’s former regime A court in Ukraine has sentenced three former police officers to prison for the murder of investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Mykola Protasov was given a sentence of 13 years, while Valeriy Kostenko and Oleksandr Popovych were each handed 12-year terms. Mr Gongadze’s death, [...]