LAWS 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nuremberg Laws, Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Just War Theory
19 Feb 2014
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Hundreds of unarmed vietnamese citizens, old people, women, and children alike, were butchered. People came to see it wasn"t such a clean cause, and bad things were happening under the. American flag in south east asia which they did not want to be held accountable for. Some people who fought in the war were ashamed of what they had to do: motto anything that isn"t dead and isn"t white is a vietcong. Hugh thompson he put his chopper down between some surviving civilians and. Lieutenant calais platoon, and said if you harm another civilian i"ll turn my guns on you : he was extremely disturbed by the events. He was black listed and shunned as if he acted discreditably. When lieutenant calais was sentenced, nixon cut in and gave him a more lenient sentence, putting him basically under house arrest. In this war, the nuremberg laws were not applied.
