William Calley
William Calley (born the June 8th 1943) is an officer of the American army war criminal responsible for the Massacre of My Lai during the Guerre of Vietnam and having called seriously into question the probity of US Army in this war.
In 1969, it appears that young lieutenant William Calley, section head in Vietnam, led a massacre of Vietnamese civilians mainly women, children and old men in a hamlet close to the village of My Lai one year before. The massacre was stopped only when two American warrant officers in the helicopter noticed carnage and intervened to prevent their compatriots from assassinating more civilians. Among the 26 officers and soldiers accused for this massacre or to have covered it thereafter, only lieutenant Calley was condemned. He was recognized guilty premeditated murders on a score of civilians and was condemned to the life imprisonment. But less than 2 days after his judgment, the president Nixon asked his release of prison and for his quartering at the height military of Bennings while waiting for the call of the judgment. The military authorities reduced to its sorrow to 20 years then the Secretary of State to defense at 10 years. At the time of a call that Calley made near a federal court for nonrespect of its rights, a judge ordered his immediate liberation. In spite of a suspensive call of the army and after several legal procedures, lieutenant Calley spent finally only 3 years and half to the arréts.
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