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supplies from russia backtracking on the two thousand and nine deal that ended a european gas crisis but president medvedev says kiev's of proposals are not concrete and the current deal cannot be revived you know laterally. it's time for our special report on the anti-war movement in the united states and the merge together in the vietnam conflict and how it changed the course of history that's next on r.t. . oh my whole tour of vietnam you don't when you get men a black soldier you know he had a gap you had a special handshake you could even you got to the point where you could even chill what part of the country he was from because everybody had their distinctive gap or handshake and definitely could tell if you could see your company because everybody knew everybody had their little knew what to. do you know the problem oh my god i'm scared for my own i don't know we're going back to back. this.

week you know we got to come. back. to slap this ready to swear that first just that high and had no down this way like a sony always do is going to get like a break from don you're around right. there you go sit back and i can recall the guts oh it's just only basis big a big big big thing they've been going to jail for the power would enhance it this is really what we think we believe that they've been going to jail for don't just don't. longman jail because it just in the room in vietnam was pretty much just like jails in america and i mean a plate of them said black there was a lot of bouncing in this prison a lot of stuff the only people who were angry were pretty dire the situation. being mates got together and we decided that we were going to escape from this

place. what happened was is that the result was alone the. base and we're not of. cause to go in there and if they don't down the jail and they will just made by the people get killed. i'm surviving so. i was going to survive no matter what. i did you come to the decision to. you know when you're laying on your back and you can't move for being in pain you know you have a lot of time and think soon i think about what you did you know what you. think that you've gone through people that you queue people you know. i mean there's always something that. you. think that you don't know yet. i think that you've seen them all your clothes from what i saw what was

going on with all the states. to run down the streets and and we're in the same county uniform i got here in memphis. on up on people. when. we were over here beating up on people where we are and at the same time you guys were in the same identical uniform hair and you're beating up on. black people who run anywhere paychecks are on the streets. in the summer of one nine hundred sixty eight army and national guard troops are sent into american cities as thousands of black people rioted following the assassination of martin luther king. that spring troops were used against antiwar demonstrators at the pentagon. then in august soldiers at fort hood were

told they would be sent to chicago where antiwar demonstrations were planned for the democratic party's national convention. we just come back from fighting a vietnamese not i want us to fight the americans. the night before the troops are supposed to leave there was a meeting of black g.i.'s they gathered up in a parking lot in the first armored division section and they were out there all night in a parking lot talking you know in a room like a rap session or a rally why they were opposed to going to chicago we're making it clear that it was a general south thing going to go on and how can i go and commit genocide on my people shoot my people there were hundreds of black jazz on a straight field and birds came up and really started pointing no need about you know discrimination and unfair treatment not getting the right and needed and about what was happening with the war as the meeting stretched into the night fort hood's

commanding general showed up to talk to the g.i.'s and say i'm just a two star general let me go or talk to my boss and i have an answer for you in the morning so you know we just relax you know when to sleep. crack said he said here. you know you know what here go i know m.p.'s all around me you know what are you going to be taking the m.p.'s are you know they came at us with this i get. it right you would have been. in the area renowned in the open is formation and group are in peace come in and grip a brother it's taken back in the back of the shit i. hear screaming in the. sea. and they were court martialed brought up on various court martial charges played scared to hell i did military then they want to round and went through the

roster of all the units who were supposed to go and considered to be quotes of burrs so a number of people myself included will not something. one of the most infamous events the nine hundred sixty six cargo police will be attacked demonstrators in front of the democratic convention although the army it's an extension of right control troops to chicago from fort hood to keep them on the street. is no longer certain what side the guys in. the military had a problem on and it was about to go from bad to worse. we were in. the practice line i believe it was a long line of a sudden we see this commotion kind of started being in the line and then start to come up towards us and we could see people like one guy would turn to the guy behind them and they'd there be this excited conversation and that guy would turn to the guy behind him and finally big guy in front of me got the news and he turns

around and he says to me they're killing women and children in vietnam i said who's killing women and children the viet cong he said no we are. march sixteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty eight the soldiers of charlie company eleventh brigade america division and to the village of me lie twenty four hours later over five hundred villagers men women and children lay dead brutally in watching lee murdered in cold blood around the world to me live massacre would become the touchstone in fact of the vietnam war. for over a year the american military covered up the me live massacre claiming only enemy soldiers were killed and when the truth was finally brought to light by journalists the highest ranking officer blamed and prosecuted was william calley a lieutenant. in a cramped detroit hotel

a new organization vietnam veterans against the war held an unprecedented investigation that exposed a much deeper truth i think i want to soldier investigation was to try to point out it wasn't really in the fence of cali but it was going after the notion that the policies of the u.s. military created things like me lie ok but it was a policy it was both a written and an unwritten policy and the truth has to be told you can't walk away from the truth you can't lie and put up a smokescreen and say oh this is a the words they used back then an isolated instance of average behavior you're just coming home saying i'm against the war you're saying this is what we did this is how we did it this was a crime this was wrong helped people to really cross the bridge and to see us in a way that i think and how warm and had not seen g.i.'s before america went through . went through a choke ok because they didn't want to believe that these things occurred in the

name of the american people supposedly supporting freedom and liberation and democracy throughout the world and the resister of the slaughter this terrible and aim slaughter so i think the question was why are they going after kally we're calley was doing precisely what we were all told to do we were in vietnam essential ok which is chilled all and sorted out later. in point three three i had a friend who was it was an advisor with norman group and one time he asked me would i like to accompany you into a village there was mill you will see how they act so i went with them and. they didn't find any enemy but they found a woman with bandages so she was questioned with about she was questioned by six times in the way we questioned her with and she advantages if they shot her she was about twenty times dead she was questioned. and could. this guy come over who was

you know him he was a former major within the services when he hears me he got hungry again and him back over working with us they id eight international development and. he went over there and rip their clothes off into the night and. cut from a ridge on all the way up well just about of her breast and order organ down completely out of or cavity and threw him out and then he stopped and not over and commenced to peel everybody's going off her body and left her there as a sign for something or other and i went and listened to three days of testimony and i absolutely came away from an emotionally drained and floored by i never grasped even up to that point. how powerful was the genocidal plans and strategy of the us towards the vietnamese people on every level . you know whether was agent orange and there in dow chemical we configuring the

napalm because the napalm wasn't sticking to the be it me skin enough. i mean that was you know all of this just added to the overwhelming sense of the criminality united states. this was armed forces day and in many cities across the country there were the usual parades displays and bands with a recent surge of protest over the war in indochina cast a shadow over today's activities this was even through at some military bases where the presence of anti-war demonstrators led to the cancellation of planned observances so thousand g.i.'s march the first year played outside the base and they told people off limits and they told people that if you want to get arrested for store owners downtown were putting up plywood coverings on their windows because the cops told it was going to turn into a riot but then people decided to change a tire fires just because you know we thought of making fun of your enemy was as

valuable as yelling the second year nine hundred seventy one. three four. where we can see the we're going to keep our army that no remains in vietnam is in a state approaching collapse with individual units avoiding or having refused combat murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers drug ridden and dispirited were not being amused. by the pentagon's own figures during the ten years of the vietnam war five hundred thousand soldiers to serve.

in the face of its term and i'm president of haiti war movement and the military here. collapsed the nixon administration announced the policy of vietnamization and effort to shift the burden of combat to the south vietnamese army while american jets been part of north vietnam from the sky. nixon promised that american ground troops would no longer be involved in offensive content. this is richard boyle firebase face to kilometers from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker done it doesn't run the first chapter which a lot of people kind of wonder if anybody back in the world knows that we're out here. like that only two batteries or a tourist was to be in on groceries with nobody we don't even exist. we just need battleships we're not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army could night that they were there you know that far as america that was before this i got

there working american troops on the border isn't going. to be playing our democracy actually i tell you i don't think why no or. when you go back all the north vietnamese were had they had two regiments to crack regiments stoli surrounding the fire banks playing something and you know. this is we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know the best thing of order think he's. going to try to hire a hired man into the water they just set us on it the captain progun ordered six men to go out on a night ambush what was basically a suicide mission because he said six guys out against two regiments and they said we're going to do it we're going to go and the only option it was was to get word out to the outside world and they wrote a petition at the ready we are under siege in favor of a space we are faced daily with the decision of whether to take

a court martial law courts dissipate not fancy brought in the event of mass prosecution. very united i only hope we'll be ok. i think. it's i'm so afraid but but ordered that company pulled out they sent in another company they'd heard about the refusal of alpha company the other company also refuse to fight and after that no company else troops would fight i said look we're not fighting a war. to lower problems to winding down the vietnam war then just holding the enemy and moving south vietnamese troops into the line one unforeseen problem is trying to keep up the neurology eyes who know they're going on but not soon enough it has produced flagrant insubordination shooting of officers by the wrong man and a deadly practice called fragging and the purpose in my mind was he did to get me or intimidate him myself and all others in authority in the company in the

time sergeant gene tenley is saying that some of his own men tried to maim or kill him but it's not an isolated incident since then one officer has been killed another wounded at this base and there have been dozens of similar incidents all across south vietnam because the fragmentation grenade is often the weapon used the violent attacks on authority have come to be known as fragging and many g.i.'s talk openly about fragging and the military countermeasures seen more than one big group meeting where. actually all they talk about is a fragging as we call pigs. by picture talking about your senior enlisted men in your officers that's correct the most common terms. forced to rely almost solely on the air war by nine hundred seventy two the united states launched an unprecedented kharaj on vietnam dropping more tonnage of firearms on

that tiny country never used by all sides during world war two and with the assault coming mainly from america. after sailors and airmen became the center of the g.i. movement on the u.s.s. coral sea twelve hundred signed a petition demanding the ship stay home and san diego california home of the carriers constellation and kitty hawk spawn the movement led by a group of navy officers and enlisted men. who truly believe what woodstock that war was in the soldier stopped fighting and still an active officer as were all these other guys and sailors it was two people as we sat around and brainstormed about what kind of a nonviolent action can we take that can actually touch sailors. around and restart the aircraft the biggest chickens and the. most impressive. it's hard for people to realize this but that ship is not

a name ship anymore it's really part of airpower and we used to attack has it so it's a weapon of a boeing weapon of aggression. the original concept cain well let's do something where we allow the people on board that ship to go to cast a ballot as to whether or not they think they should go back to vietnam let's just hear their voice and then we said now this election should be held every shopping center in san diego county and every safeway store ought to have a little polling booth outside and we have to see how many ballots we can collect and we're going to point toward a day. they will make a living they will they all want a living. check out was a carrier qualified aviator and i gave me a lot of credibility with people earned or not or and even though i hadn't been in

combat. people would give you a certain amount. koreans of course because they knew all of that our military function. yes ma'am. if i can bring the day. here. right around the question why do you people look so weird likelihood here k.g. just look normal body else. and there was this inside out we would call it where we would where we were collecting more and more of the sailors to get them involved to give them a fork and then they want to end the war missions. there's nobody from the captain of that ship to the mayor of the cities or did not

hold a press conference about this project everybody was commenting on us senators were commenting on it you know even if the city folks too for that ship to stay were still going because i guess the best it's ever the ship says well i know there's a lot of people on the ship who don't want to go over the military is full of malcontents he said listen. och our. plan. was a nine that the g.i. movement even existed the house internal security committee of the united states congress held a series of hearings in one thousand nine hundred ninety one that produced thousands of pages of testimony illustrating how broadly and deeply that movement had spread that same year the f.c.a.

show tour days despite being banned from military bases worldwide. the show performed to japan okinawa and the philippines for over sixty thousand soldiers and every stop g.i.'s took the stage with we can no longer make silent about trustees an injustice being perpetrated by the united states military and peoples of other nations and all the petty harassment the servicemen and women i made two hundred day after day. policies against persons because their race. was for me against first thought is anti war g.i. because they do not agree with us the. media and close robo near ground troops and cia from vietnam as well as from korea wound open our japan the philippines israel cambodia thailand germany england panama.

i mean it seems unthinkable now that we could have done this and that you could have a hall full of guys. with their fists in the air sung happy. that we had come to acknowledge their reality. value. and refuse to can. use it no man will lose you and me. what he's fighting for home use to be. i used to love to watch the faces of the g.i.'s when she sang them it was like this tension would drop away and you would see the youth and the innocence and the vulnerability underneath the song.

standing strong. what. is true. then a staple of one nine hundred seventy one just five years after howard levy and donald duck and flown acts of protest thousands of vietnam veterans against the war converged on washington d.c. and threw their medals on to the capitol steps. and we had to find a way to take that. you know it's kind of a unique opportunity it's very it's very rare i think in anybody's life that you have an opportunity to really think that you are changing history that you're a part of history at first they couldn't boy protest in a war that the buddha or minds we're the thousand years in nineteen seventy they

thought they did know our reactor there because they thought there were a bunch of them they got out there and are probably all just talking how many of martyr i will or. so much you know just spend a day after day after day you know just people talking about you know what it's all about how we're going to deal with this stuff and how we really get to look forward change the world that's what we want to do course wouldn't change the world we're pretty sure this sucks you know we're pretty sure those deserve to be here and so that did leave much room but to change the world you know people that we keep going i went back to cannot keep going back to vietnam because i tell you what the other side does they're always going back and they have to go back the hawks you know the patriarchs they have to go back because and they have to revise the going back because they can't allow us to know what the what the back there really was continue think about this ship and say. again they are.

sad to hear. that i extremely. sick. if the government pushed me into this ship. what's the what's the pride in saying you're a veteran if you're what you're better in something. like i'm. being. a veteran of the massacre at some place or another you know. another one you know crying. and so don't talk about the way. those mazing to me is many many g.i.'s who were actually in vietnam actually there . then spoke out against it and demonstrated you just have to. be. there through it. and that if there had been

a hundred i would have been amazed. that there was thousands there's just. incredible. brave people. must to. get. them to stock up. like them. and. like. mr babbitt. the way they. got it cost.

me like. it.