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Vietnam: le leader du massacre de My Lai est mort

Il avait dirigé les soldats américains qui ont tué des centaines de civils vietnamiens lors du massacre de My Lai.

FILE - Lt. William L. Calley, Jr., pictured during his court martial at Fort Benning, Ga., on April 23, 1971. Calley, who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, died on April 28 at a hospice center in Gainesville, Fla., The Washington Post reported Monday July 29, 2024, citing his death certificate. He was 80. (APPhoto/Joe Holloway, Jr., File)
FILE - Lt. William L. Calley, Jr., pictured during his court martial at Fort Benning, Ga., on April 23, 1971. Calley, who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, died on April 28 at a hospice center in Gainesville, Fla., The Washington Post reported Monday July 29, 2024, citing his death certificate. He was 80. (APPhoto/Joe Holloway, Jr., File)

William Laws Calley fils, qui, en tant que lieutenant de l'armée a dirigé les soldats américains qui ont tué des centaines de civils vietnamiens lors du massacre de My Lai, le crime de guerre le plus tristement célèbre de l'histoire militaire américaine moderne, est décédé. Il avait 80 ans.