Many documents detailing Vietnam atrocities missing

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03355/253447.stm

Army agents have spent weeks reviewing thousands of documents chronicling a series of atrocities committed during the Vietnam War by an elite Army platoon, but the worst war crimes by the unit may never be known.

Hundreds of records of the group known as Tiger Force are missing from the National Archives in suburban Washington, and the Army crime records center at Fort Belvoir, Va.

Officials can't explain why the reports aren't available.

"At this time, we don't know what happened (to the records)," said Chris Grey, a spokesman for the Army's Criminal Investigation Command.

A Blade series in October, "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths," which was also published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, revealed the 45-man platoon killed and mutilated scores of unarmed villagers refusing to leave their homes.

turned up missing just when they were most wanted. :puke:

at the armies special ops office. they are reviewing and updating with the information from the idf

if THEY don't suddenly disappear!

This should NOT be allowed to slip by. From the article:

(snip) Some were executed as they pleaded for their lives -- in some cases their ears and scalps severed for souvenirs -- and others were blown up in underground bunkers.

The missing records include the first formal complaint filed against the platoon in 1969 and sworn witness statements by more than 100 soldiers in 1970 and 1971, according to National Archives indexes.

The newspaper's findings showed the Army secretly investigated Tiger Force three decades ago, substantiating 20 atrocities involving 18 soldiers. But the case was quietly closed in 1975 without charges filed.
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(snip) Missing are records of specific war crimes carried out by the special force during the first two months of the period in question -- events that included the slaughter of 35 women and children in a rice paddy, according to National Archives inventory reports.
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So sad. No matter WHAT right-winger might step forward to argue, this war was ALSO unnecessary.

I was told that PERSONALLY by a young woman from Viet Nam who had just married an American, during a trip she made to Japan. She said we "just didn't understand" the situation. I believed her then, and surely do now.

Powell was involved with covering up the My Lai massacre