Today, we will briefly review the many wars launched by the United States after World War II and see what war crimes this "world's largest source of chaos" has committed. Overview - On June 25, 1950, the Korean Civil War broke out.

Korean War , Vietnam War , Afghanistan War... Today, we will briefly review the many wars launched by the United States after World War II to see what kind of war crimes this "world's largest source of chaos" has committed.

[Korean War]

Overview - On June 25, 1950, the Korean Civil War broke out. The Truman administration of the United States, with its Cold War mentality and ambition to dominate the world and contain communism, blatantly carried out armed intervention and assembled the so-called "United Nations Army" to launch an all-out war against North Korea. On July 27, 1953, the "Korean Armistice Agreement" was signed, ending the three-year Korean War.

Losses - Although the Korean War was short-lived, it was extremely bloody, resulting in the death of more than 3 million civilians and about 3 million people becoming refugees. According to North Korean statistics, the war destroyed approximately 8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals and 600,000 households, and 2 million children under the age of 18 were displaced due to the war.

data shows that the US military secretly conducts germ warfare in northern North Korea and parts of northeastern China. O'Neill, a prisoner of the U.S. Air Force, said in his confession: "The U.S. military chose winter to start bacterial warfare... to test the cold-resistant bacterial weapons we produced in a special laboratory. The ultimate goal is to use it against countries with cold climates such as the Soviet Union. and people's democracies used these bacterial weapons to fight germ warfare."

voice - "This is a wrong war at the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy." The then U.S. Chief of Staff. said Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Conference.

This is a Korean child injured in the Korean War. Xinhua News Agency issued

[Vietnam War]

Overview - In 1955, the Vietnam War broke out. During the war, the United States fostered a pro-American regime in South Vietnam to fight against North Vietnam. On May 14, 1961, the United States "Special Operations Forces" invaded South Vietnam. On April 30, 1975, the last US military helicopter flew out of Saigon.

Losses - The Vietnam War resulted in the death of 2 million civilians and the displacement of more than 3 million refugees. The U.S. military dropped approximately 20 million gallons of the defoliant agent Orange (Agent Orange) in Vietnam, causing 400,000 Vietnamese deaths and 2 million Vietnamese suffering from cancer or other diseases. The US military still leaves approximately 350,000 tons of explosive bombs and landmines in Vietnam, and it is estimated that it will still take 300 years to completely remove them.

In March 1968, U.S. soldiers massacred more than 500 people, including men, women and children, in My Lai Village, Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. This was the My Lai Massacre that shocked the world. According to the Los Angeles Times, in addition to the My Lai massacre, there were at least 320 other massacres of Vietnamese civilians by the US military during the Vietnam War, with nearly 700 civilians killed.

Voice - Former US President Obama delivered a speech in front of the Vietnam War Memorial Wall in 2012, saying that the cost of war is huge and will cause serious casualties to innocent civilians. War itself is not glorious and should be disliked.

This is the wreckage of the US military B-52 bomber displayed at the Vietnam Military Museum in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Xinhua News Agency issued (photo by Gao Mengjin)

[Kosovo War]

Overview - On March 24, 1999, NATO, led by the United States, was not authorized by the United Nations under the banner of "preventing the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo" , The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was bombed, and the Kosovo War broke out. In June, NATO signed an armistice agreement with Yugoslavia, and Kosovo was temporarily managed by the United Nations.

Losses - The war killed more than 2,000 innocent civilians, injured more than 6,000 people, displaced nearly 1 million people, and caused more than 2 million people to lose their source of livelihood, causing economic losses to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of more than 200 billion U.S. dollars. According to statistics, NATO troops have used at least 31,000 depleted uranium bombs, which has led to a surge in the incidence of cancer and leukemia in the region, and has had a long-term catastrophic impact on the local and ecological environment throughout Europe.

Voice - German writer Michael Lüders once wrote in a book that after the 1999 Kosovo War, NATO went beyond the principle of collective self-defense to launch military operations against Yugoslavia and launched bombings in the name of humanitarianism, causing civilian casualties.This shows that in the eyes of the United States and the European Union, human rights are only a secondary concern, especially that human rights standards only apply to non-allies.

On February 19, 2008, in the center of Serbian capital Belgrade, pedestrians walked past a building that was destroyed by air strikes during the Kosovo War. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Xiaoling

[Afghanistan War]

Overview - After the "9·11" terrorist attack in 2001, the United States and its allies used the Afghan Taliban as an excuse to refuse to hand over the leader of the "Al Qaeda" organization bin Laden. In early October of that year, they launched a military attack on Afghanistan, quickly overthrew the Taliban regime and stationed troops for a long time. On August 30, 2021, local time, the last US military transport aircraft took off from Kabul International Airport. This "longest war in the history of the United States" ended with the sad withdrawal of the US military.

Losses - According to statistics, 47,245 Afghan civilians and 66,000 to 69,000 Afghan soldiers and policemen not related to the "9.11" incident were killed in US military operations, and more than 10 million people were displaced. The United Nations World Food Program issued a warning in 2021 that about 98% Afghans did not have enough food, and Afghanistan was facing an "avalanche of hunger and poverty."

During the war, U.S. warplanes massacred the village of Lakani in the Panjvai area of ​​Kandahar Province and launched air strikes on it, killing 63 villagers, including a family of 17 people, and injuring dozens of others. The day before it completely withdrew from Afghanistan, the U.S. military used a drone to launch a missile at a white car parked in the yard of a house in Kabul, killing a family of ten on the spot, including seven children.

voice - "The killing of civilians, including children, by the US military in air strikes has exposed the hypocrisy of the so-called human rights defenders in the United States. The international community should condemn the US's human rights abuses and bring the criminals to justice." A This is how the villagers of Lakani village expressed their anger.

On December 16, 2003, the US military patrolled in Wardak Province in central Afghanistan. The war in Afghanistan, which lasted for nearly 20 years, became the longest war in the history of the United States. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Lei

[ Iraq War ]

Overview - In March 2003, the United States and its Western allies ignored the strong opposition of the international community and bypassed on the grounds that Iraq allegedly had weapons of mass destruction. United Nations Security Council , invasion of Iraq. On August 18, 2010, the last U.S. combat brigade left Iraq, marking the end of U.S. combat operations. On December 15, 2011, the United States officially announced the end of the US military mission in Iraq.

Losses - The war left holes in the land that gave birth to the Mesopotamia civilization, resulting in the deaths of approximately 200,000 to 250,000 civilians, of which more than 16,000 were directly killed by the US military. According to statistics, the total number of depleted uranium bombs exploded in Iraq exceeds 3,400 tons. To this day, there are still about 25 million landmines and other explosive remnants in Iraq that need to be cleared. The war in Iraq also broke the balance between political forces in the post-Cold War Middle East, causing people's livelihood in the region to suffer and chaos to arise.

In November 2003, the innocent Iraqi citizen Alaa Karim Ahmed was arrested and imprisoned by the US military. In prison, US soldiers used police dogs, whips, and shackles to force him to confess. According to Alaa Karim Ahmed's recollection, at that time the prison was often attacked by mortars by anti-American armed personnel. The US military could hide in the bunker, and the detainees could only resign themselves to their fate. Once a shell fell in the prison, killing 37 people. One person died and 104 were injured. In 2004, photos of US soldiers abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were exposed, shocking the world.

Voice - The American " Atlantic Monthly " website once published an article: "Americans never truly understand the cost of war, but they continue to fight. Only Iraqi civilians know firsthand how much the cost of war is."

An Iraqi capital A citizen of Baghdad once said sadly: "The United States has made Iraq seem to have set back 100 years."

This is April 14, 2003. Dozens of US military "Black Hawk" and "Apache" armed helicopters arriving in Kuwait are preparing to take off from the port of Kuwait City to reinforce the Iraqi front line.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xiaoguo

[ Syrian War ]

Overview - The Syrian civil war broke out in 2011. The United States and its Western allies strongly supported the opposition armed forces in an attempt to overthrow the Syrian government. In September 2014, the United States initiated the formation of an international coalition to combat the extremist organization "Islamic State", expanded the scope of air strikes against "Islamic State" targets from Iraq to the territory of Syria, and established multiple military bases in eastern Syria. Since 2017, the United States has launched air strikes against Syria on the grounds of "preventing the Syrian government from using chemical weapons."

Losses - From 2016 to 2019, 33,584 civilians were recorded dead in the war in Syria. Among them, the bombing by the US-led coalition directly killed 3,833 people, half of whom were women and children. According to the US PBS report, the so-called "most precise air strike in history" launched by the US military on Raqqa alone resulted in the death of 1,600 Syrian civilians. The war has led to the decline of people's livelihood in Syria. According to a survey conducted by World Food Program in April 2020, about one-third of Syrians do not have enough food, and 87% have no savings.

Voice - Syrian political activist Wada Issa once said: "They (the United States) are here to steal our resources, create chaos and wreak havoc, and they have the nerve to call themselves the 'savior' of the suffering Syrian people."

Data from the "Cost of War" project of the Watson Institute of Brown University in the United States show that the total number of military and civilian deaths caused by wars launched by the United States in the "post-9/11 era" has reached as high as 929,000, and at least 38 million people have been displaced, and This is a "very conservative estimate" and the actual number may be between 49 million and 60 million.

In addition to directly launching or participating in wars, the United States also frequently interferes in the internal affairs of other countries through direct or indirect means such as supporting proxy wars, inciting civil wars in other countries, providing weapons and ammunition, training anti-government armed forces, etc., seriously damaging the social stability, public safety and security of relevant countries. Healthy economic development.

"The world's largest source of chaos", the United States deserves its reputation!

Reporter: Sun Nan

Editor: Liu Yuanyuan

Source: Xinhua News Agency