The My Lai Massacre: a Crime of Obedience? (From Crimes

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The My Lai Massacre: A Crime of Obedience? (from Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility) HERBERT
-Who carried out the My Lai massacre?

• A) No one really knows
• B) American soldiers
• C) Hired mercenaries from around the world-a kind of global army for hire
• D) Ordinary civilians who armed themselves with knives, garden tools, and hunting weapons
• E) Child soldiers-orphans from several years of civil war

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