After watching the film, it still gives people a very heavy heart, because this situation is not only in the film, but in reality, whether in the past, now, or in the future.
In modern Chinese history, the Nanjing Massacre is a must-have. Under the command of Ishigen Matsui, commander of the Central China Expeditionary Force, and Hisao Tani, commander of the 6th Division, the Japanese invaders carried out an organized 6-week campaign in Nanjing and nearby areas. , planned and premeditated massacres and bloody atrocities such as rape, arson, and looting. In the Nanjing Massacre, a large number of civilians and prisoners of war were killed by the Japanese army, and countless families were torn apart. The number of victims in the Nanjing Massacre exceeded 300,000.
Speaking of the US military, most people may not be very impressed, mainly because after the founding of New China, it did not directly fight the US military in the local area (North Korea, Vietnam, etc.), in fact, the US military is not always a strict military discipline. , the following is a brief analysis of one or two.
To say the most famous incident about the US military, it should be the My Lai massacre.
On March 15, 1968, U.S. Army Captain Ernest Medina informed his soldiers that the 48th Battalion of the North Vietnamese Army was stationed in My Lai Village. According to relevant intelligence forecasts, the women and children in this small village will go to the weekly market at 7 o'clock in the morning and will not stay in the village. So, under the command of Lieutenant William Kelly, Charlie's Company of the U.S. 11th Light Infantry Brigade was ordered to burn down houses, blow up underground bunkers and tunnels, and kill all livestock.
On March 16, Lieutenant Kelly led his troops to search and destroy. At 7:12 am, Charlie Lian set off towards My Lai Village. Without warning, the carnage began. In a temple, about 15 to 20 women and children who were praying were killed by rifle bullets fired from behind. A U.S. soldier with an M-16 rifle fired at two walking boys, the older boy fell on top of the other boy to protect him, and the soldier kept shooting them until All boys were killed. 80 villagers were herded to a square in the village. Lieutenant Kelly left a few soldiers to guard the group. He said to one of the soldiers, "You know what I want to do with them." Ten minutes later, Lieutenant Kelly came back and asked, "Have you finished them? I want them all dead." Kelly picked it up With his rifle, he pushed a monk into the rice field and then killed the monk at a fairly close distance.
Another group of women and children were rushed to stand by a canal, where Kelly then directed his soldiers to beat them all to death. One of the two-year-old boys, covered in blood, crawled out of the ditch to escape, but Kelly caught up with him, threw him into the ditch, and shot him until it was determined that the boy had been killed. .
Helicopter pilot, Lieutenant Hugh Sanderson, couldn't believe his eyes as he flew over a canal filled with corpses: "I remember we were talking about the biblical story of Jesus turning water into wine. The story, but the blood flowing from those people in the canal has given this story a dark color."
One of Thompson's tasks that day was to use smoke to mark the location of injured Vietnamese civilians so that they could be provided with medical assistance. But with every smoke bomb he threw, American soldiers slaughtered those wounded. Thompson tried to radio the ground forces to find out what was going on, but he was unsuccessful. So he radioed to headquarters that American troops were firing on civilians. Thompson also descended the plane several times to rescue Vietnamese civilians and bring them to safety. On the second landing, he saw Lieutenant Kelly and a group of soldiers about to blow up an underground bunker where women and children were hiding. "I asked him (Kelly) if he could get the women and children out before blowing up the bunker and he said the only way to get them out was to throw a grenade."
Thompson asked Kelly to order his soldiers to stop while he called in two helicopter gunships to rescue the civilians. Thompson stood between the American soldiers and the underground bunker while waiting for a rescue plane. As he let the women and children out of the bunker, he ordered his crew chief: "If any American shoots at the Vietnamese, you shoot at the Americans." Lieutenant Kelly was clearly annoyed by this, but He didn't stop Thompson. Later, Kelly complained, "The pilot didn't like the way I did things, but I was the boss." Later, for his outstanding performance, Thompson was awarded the Grand Flying Cross - presumably an American soldier Awarded for the first time for threatening to kill one of his own.
Not all of Kelly's men were keen to kill, some soldiers refused to take part in the brutality, Harry Stanley, a machine gunner in Charlie's Company, refused to fire with his M-60: "I didn't fire because I wanted to wait. Some kind of resistance, but there was no resistance, so I had no reason to shoot. To me, they were just a bunch of crazy thugs. I wouldn't want to be a murderer." Kelly ordered Stanley to shoot the man he took to the canal. Villagers, Stanley refused. Kay used threats to court martial him, but to no avail. As a result, Kelly had to call in another 30 soldiers and began to massacre the villagers. After the massacre, Stars and Stripes, the official newspaper of the U.S. Department of the Army, even ran a headline: "U.S. forces surround the Reds and kill 128 people."
The news of the My Lai village massacre was blocked by the U.S. Army for a year, and was later revealed by the American journalist Seymour Hoshi. The international community was in an uproar and unanimously condemned it as "moral bankruptcy". This tragedy was considered a watershed in the Vietnam War, which promoted anti-war sentiment in the United States, and the US government also reduced its dispatch to Vietnam from the year (1969) when the truth was revealed. As for the number of victims, the actual number of Vietnamese civilians killed in My Lai village varies from source to source. The official US military report alleges 168 deaths, of which 20% were Vietnamese civilians; the official Vietnamese report It said that 568 of the 900 civilians who lived in the village were killed. A New York Times message pointed out that the two governments privately agreed that the death toll was between 400 and 500.
And the end result may be unexpected: On March 31, 1971, a US military court sentenced Lieutenant William Kelly of the US Army to life imprisonment for ordering the fire, which was commuted to four and a half months on appeal. Another 25 people were charged, but all were acquitted.
Let's focus on the Afghan battlefield where the film is located. The film is set in 2010, when five U.S. Army soldiers were charged with the intentional murder of Afghan civilians. After that, will things get better?
the answer is negative. The following is to talk about - the 3.11 shooting and killing of civilians in Afghanistan by American soldiers.
On the evening of March 11, 2012, the moon was dark and the wind was high. At 3 a.m., an American soldier walked out of the military camp in the Panjwai area of Kandahar, and came to a small village nearby. He is Robert Bells. "Oriental Time and Space" reports on the perpetrators
Kandahar province (Kandahar) is located in southern Afghanistan. According to villagers who witnessed at the time, he attacked three different houses. In the first house, he opened fire on 11 people indoors, and in the second house he shot 4 people. People shoot. At present, the attack has killed 17 people and injured 5 people, including 9 children and 3 women.
Bells went to Iraq on three missions (2003-2004, June 2006-September 2007, August 2009-August 2010) and was wounded in the head and lost part of a foot in Iraq. May suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I thought I would never go to the battlefield again. When Bells heard in 2011 that he would be sent to Afghanistan, he expressed reluctance to go.
On June 5, 2013, Robert Bells reached a plea deal with the prosecution in which he pleaded guilty to 16 counts of murder in exchange for not being sentenced to death. On August 23, Robert Bells was sentenced to life without parole by a U.S. military court. However, on May 16, Bells' lawyers appealed that Bells was not to blame and requested parole for him. If the appeal is successful, he will escape jail. This case, which was already unfairly punished, has been brought up again.
Prosecutors ignored evidence that Bells' troops provided him with anti-malarial drugs that could have led to violence, as well as indications that the villagers in Panjwa Ica may be former staff members, the request said. If this is true, at least a significant portion of those killed by Robert Bayless were enemy combatants, not civilians, and the crime would be much less severe enough to warrant parole.
Bell's lawyers argued that the U.S. Army Court of Appeals, when rehearing the case in 2017, held that the original prosecutors in the case did not have to disclose the side effects of mefloquine when formulating their case against him, which seriously affected the assessment of Bell's mental state. judge. "Bells filed an undisputed expert medical affidavit with the Court of Appeal alleging that the U.S. military ordered him to take the antimalarial drug mefloquine, and that he was on his fourth dose at the time, suffering from adverse psychiatric effects after prolonged use, Severe psychotic symptoms have developed."
The documents filed in the petition also allege that the villagers in Panjwai district who made the statement in the 2013 verdict were not innocent bystanders, something that the prosecution knew but did not make public. “The prosecution did not release the fingerprints of some Afghan sentencing witnesses on some improvised explosive devices dismantled by the U.S. military, and these roadside bombs were all aimed at the U.S. military. That said, the legal status of these individuals is not an illegal one under international humanitarian law. combatants, but unlawful belligerents or robbers who, under the Laws of War, can be attacked by soldiers.”
If the petition is eventually adopted by a U.S. military court, Bells' massacre of civilians will turn into a serious side effect of taking military-supplied drugs, causing him to suffer from mental illness. At the same time, a considerable number of the people he killed were no longer classified as civilians, and it could even be said that those women and children were collateral damage. This almost overturned all the trials that year! The face of American hegemony has once again been highlighted.
Finally, of course, I have to talk about the film.
Joint Military Base Lewis-McChord announced that soldier Jeremy Morlock would become the first service member involved in the case to be tried by a court-martial. Morlock was charged with three counts of premeditated murder and one count of assault. If convicted on all counts, he could face up to life in prison, the military said.
Morlock, 22, is part of a platoon of the U.S. Army's 5th Stryker Wheeled Armored Vehicle Brigade, along with 11 other service members charged. Morlock and Sergeant Calvin Gibbs carried out three murders in villages near the Ramrod Forward Operating Base between January and May, killing three Afghan civilians, according to the lawsuit. They pull in a soldier each time they commit a crime: Andrew Holmes in the first murder; Michael Varnon in the second; Adam Winfield in the third. The five were charged with premeditated murder and other charges. They all claimed to be innocent. Seven other soldiers were charged with obstructing the investigation of the case.
The Washington Post, citing U.S. military charge documents, reported that some soldiers formed a "kill squad" organized by Calvin Gibbs, who served in Iraq in 2004. Gibbs told other soldiers that he himself had done "killing entertainment" in Iraq, easily covering up the truth. On January 15 of that year, the "kill squad" found an opportunity. At that time, some American officers went to a village in Kandahar Province to meet with some tribal leaders in the village, and Gibbs and others were in charge of vigilance.
Villager Gul Muddin approached them, and U.S. soldier Jeremy Morlock threw a grenade at the ground to create the appearance of an attack by Muddin, and another soldier shot at Muddin. The grenade exploded and other soldiers shot at Muddin, who died on the spot (later identified as a farm worker named Gul Muddin). When questioned by the military, Morlock admitted that Gibbs handed him the grenade and that the other soldiers knew in advance of their plans to shoot civilians.
Military charging documents show that Gibbs and others later used similar tactics, shooting innocent civilians in February, March and May, killing at least two people. Shortly after the first shooting in January, a soldier's father warned the military, but the military ignored it, leading Gibbs and others to continue "killing entertainment."
On February 14, Adam Winfield, a soldier in Gibbs' platoon, mentioned in an online chat with his father Christopher Winfield in the United States that he had a conflict with Gibbs in Afghanistan. Little Winfield told his father that some soldiers in the platoon threatened him with "killing entertainment." After the shooting of Muddin in January, the soldiers talked privately about finding their next target. Old Winfield recalled that during the online chat, he felt his son was very frightened and worried that his life was in danger. Old Winfield immediately called the police, and successively called the military supervision department and the military criminal investigators, hoping that the military would intervene. An officer who answered the phone told him there was nothing the military could do if his son did not report to his superiors in Afghanistan. Old Winfield recalled that what irritated him was that the officer was cold and didn't care.
On May 2, Gibbs and others repeated the same trick, killing a religious figure in Afghanistan. When the military subsequently investigated the illegal use of marijuana preparations by some soldiers in the 3rd platoon, a second-class soldier reported the scandal of Gibbs and others. When Gibbs found out, he led some soldiers in the platoon to beat the private. Gibbs, holding a finger bone in his hand, threatened the private. The finger bone was taken by Gibbs from a deceased Afghan.
But the private was undeterred and went on to report it to the gendarmerie. In a statement, the private said that some of the soldiers in the platoon "wandered around and shot villagers when they went to the village on a mission. After the incident, their report was the same every time, that one villager threw a grenade. , but never provided evidence."
12 U.S. soldiers have been arrested after the alleged indiscriminate killing of civilians by U.S. troops in Afghanistan came to light. Prosecutors charged 22-year-old Corporal Jeremy Morlock and five others with intentional killing of three Afghan civilians, and charged seven others with conspiracy to cover up the crime. Turner, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army, said a conviction for intentional homicide could result in a court sentence of death. But the Army won't ask the court for a death sentence, so Morlock could face up to life in prison if convicted.
The end result: Corporal Jeremy Morlock pleaded guilty to three counts of homicide, one count of conspiracy, one count of obstruction of justice and one count of unlawful drug use, which Judge Quasi Hawkes said initially intended Morlock was sentenced to life in prison with parole allowed, but Morlock was willing to take responsibility for his actions, pleaded guilty and turned into a "tainted witness", so he received a reduced sentence and was sentenced to 24 years in prison, with parole eligibility after about 7 years. And Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, who has been demoted to private and all wages and other benefits forfeited, will serve his sentence in a military prison after being sentenced to life in prison. Of course, the protagonist in our movie was also sentenced to three years.
The overall degree of restoration of the film is relatively high. IMDb currently has a score of 6.0 and a personal score of 7.2. Therefore, it is highly recommended for friends who like this kind of subject matter. At the same time, it is not easy to organize the information. If reading the film review is helpful to you, you can give me a like below, thank you!
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