DisOrientated - A Weblog by Philip Sen

June 04, 2004

Doesn't Make It Right

Amritsar, India (April 13, 1919). British troops under the command of General Reginald Dyer fire on unarmed Indians in the thickly crowded plaza at Jallianwala Bagh, leaving (by some estimates) 379 dead and 1200 wounded. A peaceful crowd had assembled in the walled plaza to protest the enactment of the Rowlett Act, which the British administration had issued to secure 'emergency' powers for itself.

My Lai, Vietnam (March 16, 1968). Angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the village of My Lai. The agitated troops, under the command of Lt. William Calley, were poised for engagement with the Vietcong. As the "search and destroy" mission unfolded it soon degenerated into the massacre of over 300 apparently unarmed civilians including women, children, and the elderly.

Kent State University, Ohio (May 4, 1970) Over the course of four days, Kent State students protested against an American invasion of Cambodia which President Richard Nixon launched on May 1. A group of seventy National Guard troops advanced on the protesters with fixed bayonets in an attempt to disperse the crowd. When they reached the top of a hill, twenty-eight of the Guardsmen suddenly turned on the protestors and fired a 13-second fusillade of between 61 and 67 shots, killing four students and wounding nine.

Derry, Ireland (January 30, 1972) Soldiers from the British Army's 1st Parachute Regiment opened fire on civilian demonstrators in the Bogside, near the Rossville flats, killing 13 and wounding a number of others. The march, which was called to protest internment, was "illegal" according to British government authorities.

Beijing, PRC (June 4, 1989)... Soldiers gun down hundreds of democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds under the gaze of the international media.

It doesn't matter who does it, where it happens or why, it doesn't make it right.

BBC Article on Commemorations.

Posted by Sendover at June 4, 2004 06:56 PM | TrackBack

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Derry, Ireland

The protesters were actually armed and very dangerous, they weren't innocent civilians, they were public soldiers without uniforms from an undeclared military, many of who were involved in murders, sectarian violence and some rather brutal torture. They advanced on a small military post manned by inexperienced and rather worried soldiers who would have been murdered if they hadn't fired on the crowd.

Posted by: Angry Chinese Blogger at June 4, 2004 10:12 PM

For the record I was talking about the gunning down of protestors in Ireland and not in Tiananmen, though there are accounts of some Tiananmen protestors being members of city gangs out to have a riot.

It has been well documented that both sepratist and union supporters in Ireland have been engaged in a long and rather horrible conflict with each other and with the British peacekeeing force, there have regularly been murders and incidents of torture from both sides of Ireland and many bombings in Ireland and England, most notably the Ohma bombing that left scores of civilians dead and was designed to kill fleeing shoppers, and the Brighton bombing that was a direct attempt to assasinate the then Primeminister Margaret Thatcher.

I have no doubt that if the soldiers hadn't RETURNED FIRE, that they would have been beatend or shot to death, and it has been histrorically recorded (by none other than the people themselves) that among the marchers were several people now identified by the British government as ringleaders or assasins in later paramilitary activities, including punishment beatings, bombing, or the procurement of guns.

Ireland isn't as clear cut as Washington would have you believe.

The protests were far from peacful and the British were far from the agressors.

Don't believe everything that you hear in Patriot games.

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