They even directed movies about how sad he was afterward :(

  • GothWhitlam [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Don't forget to fuck all the Australian troops who helped fuck over Vietnam too

    During the Vietnam War, at the village of Binh Ba, five kilometres from the main Australian base at Nui Dat, a battle raged in June 1969. Australian tanks were “devastating the town while infantry fought house to house and helicopters hosed the plantation with fire”, tells MacDougall. Australian casualties were nine, while more than 100 dead Vietnamese were counted. “A number of them were women and children, a fact that deeply troubled many of the Australians and still does.

    Linky-link

    • GothWhitlam [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I should probably note that the link is quoting a book that in its words:

      Despite its attempt to glorify war and promote nationalist myths, he gives an honest account of Australian atrocities in war-both in decisions by the ruling class to throw away lives joining unnecessary conflicts and in the war crimes committed by the military in waging them.