A #Thread🧵 for United States of America's "finest moments" in history.
Will add more everyday.
"The Terror of War", taken at Trảng Bàng during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972.
9 yr old running naked after being severely burned on her back by a US napalm attack.
Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right).
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. Killing between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians.
Gn. Jacob H. Smith's infamous order "Kill Everyone Over Ten" was the caption in the New York Journal cartoon on May 5, 1902.
Filipino historians depict the number of victims at 50,000 from Philippine-US war 1899-1902.
March 5, 1906 the First Battle of Bud Dajo, also known as the Moro Crater Massacre.
At the battle's conclusion by March 8, only six Moros had survived, with 99% having been killed.
The Bud Dajo crater was populated by 800 to 1,000 Tausug villagers.
First (1915) and Second (1918-1920) Caco Wars during US occupation of Haiti (1915–1934).
United States Marine Corps killed several thousands of Haitian civilians during the rebellions between 1915 and 1920, at least 15,000 Haitians were killed during the occupation.
On January 26, 1943, the submarine USS Wahoo fired on survivors in lifeboats from the Imperial Japanese Army transport ship Buyo Maru.
Of 1,126 men originally aboard Buyo Maru, 195 Indians and 87 Japanese died.
Mutilation of Japanese war dead. In the Pacific theater, American soldiers engaged in human trophy collecting.
Photo of an American sailor with the skull of a Japanese soldier during World War II.
U.S. military personnel raped Okinawan women during and after the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
Interviews carried out by @nytimes published in 2000, say 3 armed Marines kept coming to the village every week, gather all the local women, who were then carried to the hills and raped.
Rape in the European Theater.
Secret wartime files made public in 2006 reveal American GIs committed 400 "sexual offenses" in Europe 1942-1945. A study by Robert J. Lilly estimates that 14,000 civilian women in England, France and Germany were raped by American GIs during WWII.
The No Gun Ri massacre in
Korea. Mass killing of an estimated 250–300 South Korean refugees by U.S. soldiers of the 7th Cavalry Regiment (and in a U.S. air attack) from 26-29 July 1950 at a railroad bridge near the village of Nogeun-ri, 160 km southeast of Seoul.
American forces killed around 110,000–310,000 Vietnamese 1960-72 as a "possible case" of "counter-guerrilla mass killings" by U.S. During the war, 95 U.S. Army personnel and 27 U.S. Marine Corps personnel were convicted by court-martial for murder or manslaughter.
My Lai massacre of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, entirely civilians, most of them women and children,by U.S. soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment,March 16, 1968.Victims were raped,beaten,tortured,or maimed,bodies were mutilated.
Operation Speedy Express at Mekong delta from Dec. 1968 to May 1969. US Army Inspector General estimated 5,000 to 7,000 civilian deaths from the operation. US soldiers indulged in the "wanton killing" of civilians through the use of mass firepower.
Phoenix Program coordinated by CIA to destroy Viet Cong through infiltration, torture, capture, counter-terrorism, interrogation, and assassination. The program was labeled a "civilian assassination program" for the use of torture.
"War on Terror". Ater 9/11 U.S. Government adopted several measures of unlawful combatant to some prisoners, using torture ("enhanced interrogation techniques"!). The torture of detainees was extensively detailed in the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture.
The Maywand District murders involved killing of three Afghan civilians by a group of soldiers during the period June 2009 to June 2010. The soldiers referred to their group as "Kill Team" in Kandahar Province where they collected the body parts as trophies.
The Kandahar massacre. A mass murder on 11 March 2012, when Staff Sergeant Robert Bales killed 16 Afghan civilians and wounded six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. 9 of the victims were children, 11 of the dead were from the same family.
During the war on Iraq, US soldiers committed a series of human rights violations including physical and sexual abuse against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison. The abuses came to public attention with the publication of photographs of the abuse by CBS News in April 2004.
The Haditha massacre. November 19, 2005, in Haditha, Iraq. After a U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside improvised explosive device, Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich led Marines from the 3rd battalion into Haditha. 24 Iraqi women and children were fatally shot.
U.S. Atrocities and Criminal Homicides in Iraq.
archive.globalpolicy.org/security/issue…
A 2019 report by Amnesty International accused US military forces of killing at least 14 civilians and injuring 8 others in Somalia.
"The Hidden War in Somalia" investigated only 5 out of 100 US airstrikes carried out by Reaper drones outside the capital Mogadishu.
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.