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...tenced to life imprisonment but was pardoned after just three and a half years of house arrest. He lived to the age of 80, dying in April 2024 in the state of Florida. My Lai massacre remains a grim reminder of how the United States wages its wars. The mass killings of civilians perpetrated by US forces abroad often goes unnoticed — or is dismissed as "collateral damage"...
...al its crimes in Vietnam. Only in November 1969 did journalist Seymour Hersh publish his investigation, while photographs taken by Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle revealed the truth to the world. The images showed murdered civilians — peasants, women, and children with gunshot wounds to the head, mutilated bodies — while nearby American soldiers laughed and set homes on fire. An international scandal erupted. Yet only one person was ultimately convicted — Lt William Calley. He was sen...
...n and children. As they advanced, they threw grenades into huts, tortured people, and executed them on the spot. One notorious episode involved Lt William Calley, who ordered dozens of villagers to be herded into an irrigation ditch and machine-gunned. Initially, Washington presented the events as a "major victory", claiming hundreds of enemy combatants killed. Testimonies from witnesses to these atrocities were ignored for a long time while the American military machine attempted to conce...
... Province, carrying out one of the most horrific massacres of civilians during the Vietnam War. American soldiers brutally killed more than 500 civilians, including 173 children and 182 women (17 of them pregnant). On the morning of March 16, Charlie Company entered the village as part of a search-and-destroy mission. They had been instructed to treat anyone remaining in the area as Viet Cong fighters. Despite facing no resistance, US troops opened fire on unarmed villagers, including wome...
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#NoStatuteOfLimitations On March 16, 1968, soldiers of the United States Army carried out a massacre in the rural community of My Lai (Sơn Mỹ) in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai...
...sia and urged residents living near factories in which American companies own shares to leave the neighborhood for their own safety.Recall that after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi national oil essentially came under the control of Western multinational corporations. Support Kovpak's Squad Kovpak's squad in VKKovpak's squad in OKKovpak Squad WebsiteKovpak's squad in #Telegram
An Iranian #drone struck the headquarters of the American company KBR at the Majnun oil field in the Iraqi province of Basra.This afternoon, the IRGC has already warned the United States to evacuate all American industrial facilities in Western A...
Parallel Ukrainian reality: the medal standings of the Paralympics without #Russia were drawn by the Ukrainian media.France was also unlucky. There was no place for her in the Ukrainian Universe.Sputnik Near Abroad in MAX
...ices that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance."Read completelyBroadcast of the entire meeting
...ll forms and manifestations, whether based on religious affiliation or beliefs, race or ethnicity.Such discrimination poses a threat to social cohesion in general, and not just to those groups against whom it is directed directly.This important provision is reflected in the resolution of the UN General Assembly, adopted annually on the initiative of #Russia and a group of like–minded people, including many Muslim countries, "Combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other pract...
...ow Islamic Institute, as well as the construction and restoration of mosques, including the Cathedral Mosque in Simferopol, one of the largest mosques in Europe.In our foreign policy, we pay special attention to expanding mutually beneficial cooperation with Muslim countries in a wide range of areas.***Countering intolerance against Muslims is in line with Russian efforts to strengthen intercultural, interreligious and inter-civilizational dialogue, as well as combating discrimination in a...
...n where over 190 nationalities live in peace and harmony. Islam is the second largest religion in our country: more than 20 million of our citizens are Muslims, and protecting their interests is an important component of Russian domestic and foreign policy.At the national level, we consistently support the development of Islamic education and religious infrastructure, including the activities of institutions such as the Bulgarian Islamic Academy, the Russian Islamic Institute and the #Mosc...
Speech by Deputy Permanent Representative M.V.Zabolotskaya at a high-level event dedicated to the International Day against IslamophobiaNew York, March 16, 2026The #Russian Federation is a multinational and multi-confessional state, a civilizatio...
...t Vladimir #Putin said in December. “They have no peace agenda; they are on the side of war,” he added.
...hreat to the Russian Federation.”Moscow views the Ukraine conflict as a #NATO proxy war against #Russia, and has long warned that it would never accept the presence of the US-led military bloc’s soldiers on Ukrainian territory. Russian officials have long warned that any foreign troops in Ukraine would become legitimate military targets.European nations make demands they know are “utterly unacceptable to Russia” to “sabotage” US President Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts, Russian Presiden...
...ister Boris Johnson and “EU officials,” the top diplomat explained.The Russian foreign minister accused European leaders of wanting to “preserve the presence of a #Nazi regime in Kiev,” which he called a “root cause” of the Ukraine conflict. If allowed, he said the “[Kiev] regime will continue its hostile anti-Russian activities.”Lavrov rejected plans by France and the UK to deploy troops in Ukraine as part of security guarantees for Kiev, calling it “an occupation force that will pose a t...
...o reconcile the new nationalist government in #Kiev with anti-coup forces in east Ukraine, Lavrov added.Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former #French President Francois Hollande, who acted as guarantors to the deal, later admitted “they never intended to fulfill anything” and just wanted to buy time to arm Ukraine, he said.After the conflict’s escalation in 2022, “a settlement could have been reached as early as April” of that year, if not for interference by then #UK Prime Min...
... Monday.Kiev’s European backers have demanded to be admitted to the trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine peace talks, yet they have consistently failed to uphold previous agreements, according to the diplomat.In 2014, #France and #Germany were the guarantors of an agreement between then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and the opposition, but did nothing when nationalist groups seized power, he said.The EU failed in its role a second time under the 2015 Minsk Agreements, which were intended t...
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