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DAVID RISING, RANDY HERSCHAFT and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Associated Press
June 14, 2013
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A top commander (whatever that means) of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.
Though records do not show that [Michael] Karkoc had a direct hand in war crimes, statements from men in his unit and other documentation confirm the Ukrainian company he commanded massacred civilians, and suggest that Karkoc was at the scene of these atrocities as the company leader. Nazi SS files say he and his unit were also involved in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in which the Nazis brutally suppressed a Polish rebellion against German occupation.
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"In America this is a relatively easy case: If he was the commander of a unit that carried out atrocities, that's a no brainer," Zuroff said. "Even in Germany ... if the guy was the commander of the unit, then even if they can't show he personally pulled the trigger, he bears responsibility."
Read the entire (lengthy) report by By DAVID RISING, RANDY HERSCHAFT and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Associated Press:
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-comm...101016457.html
LDS:
The very same thing has happened, at the hands of the United States Armed Forces, for more than ten (10) years in Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere around the world). Perhaps someday, in the decades to come, all officers in the United States Armed Forces will be tried for war crimes because they did not refuse orders from the Bush and Obama regimes.
As we've seen with Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin if you refuse to obey orders in the United States Armed Forces you are sentences to prison.
109,023 Iraqis were killed in the Iraq War.
66,081 of those Iraqis were innocent civilians (not insurgents). That’s nearly 2/3.
Most of those 66,081 were murdered and were not victims of stray bullets or indirect victims of bombings nor were they what is typically referred to as casualties of war.
They were murdered, in cold blood, by US troops. The US Military kept records (although they denied it for years) of these murders. Wikileaks published the classified US reports which contained the body count and detailed accounts, of individuals soldiers, murdering and torturing innocent civilian Iraqis.
If you still think there's any difference between Michael Karkoc (age 94) and officers and non-commissioned officers (or any member) in the United States Armed Forces then I suggest the following documentary:
Associated Press
June 14, 2013
Excerpt:
A top commander (whatever that means) of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.
Though records do not show that [Michael] Karkoc had a direct hand in war crimes, statements from men in his unit and other documentation confirm the Ukrainian company he commanded massacred civilians, and suggest that Karkoc was at the scene of these atrocities as the company leader. Nazi SS files say he and his unit were also involved in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in which the Nazis brutally suppressed a Polish rebellion against German occupation.
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"In America this is a relatively easy case: If he was the commander of a unit that carried out atrocities, that's a no brainer," Zuroff said. "Even in Germany ... if the guy was the commander of the unit, then even if they can't show he personally pulled the trigger, he bears responsibility."
Read the entire (lengthy) report by By DAVID RISING, RANDY HERSCHAFT and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Associated Press:
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-comm...101016457.html
LDS:
The very same thing has happened, at the hands of the United States Armed Forces, for more than ten (10) years in Iraq and Afghanistan (and elsewhere around the world). Perhaps someday, in the decades to come, all officers in the United States Armed Forces will be tried for war crimes because they did not refuse orders from the Bush and Obama regimes.
As we've seen with Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin if you refuse to obey orders in the United States Armed Forces you are sentences to prison.
109,023 Iraqis were killed in the Iraq War.
66,081 of those Iraqis were innocent civilians (not insurgents). That’s nearly 2/3.
Most of those 66,081 were murdered and were not victims of stray bullets or indirect victims of bombings nor were they what is typically referred to as casualties of war.
They were murdered, in cold blood, by US troops. The US Military kept records (although they denied it for years) of these murders. Wikileaks published the classified US reports which contained the body count and detailed accounts, of individuals soldiers, murdering and torturing innocent civilian Iraqis.
If you still think there's any difference between Michael Karkoc (age 94) and officers and non-commissioned officers (or any member) in the United States Armed Forces then I suggest the following documentary: