My Lai massacre ’68 Atrocities during wars are as old as war itself. But one would expect the army of the country that says it’s bringing ‘democracy’ and ‘civilization’ to the world, to behave in a civil way. Off course that is just wishful thinking. And where else than Iraq would the modern atrocities occur. One would expect that the US soldiers would have learned from the infamous My Lai massacre in 1968 during the Vietnam war, but now the US is faced with another scandal of this magnitude: a massacre (and a possible cover-up) at Haditha, Iraq in 2005. […]
