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In the southern Philippines the US colonial army was at war with Muslim Filipinos, known as Moros. In 1906 what came to be known as the Moro Massacre was carried out by US troops when at least nine hundred Filipinos, including women and children, armed mainly with knives and clubs, were trapped in a volcanic crater and shot at and bombarded for days. Mark Twain responded to early reports with bitter satire: "With six hundred engaged on each side, we lost fifteen men killed outright, and we had thirty-two wounded. The enemy numbered six hundred including women and children – and we abolished them utterly, leaving not even a baby alive to cry for its dead mother. This is incomparably the greatest victory that was ever achieved by the Christian soldiers of the United States." President Theodore Roosevelt immediately commended his good friend General Leonard Wood, who had carried out the Moro Massacre, writing: "I congratulate you and the officers and men of your command upon the brilliant feat of arms wherein you and they so well upheld the honor of the American flag." |
| "By the time Calley and men sat down to lunch, they had rounded up and slaughtered around 500 unarmed civilians. Within those few hours, members of Charlie Company had 'fooled around' and laughed as they sodomized and raped women, ripped vaginas open with knives, bayoneted civilians, scalped corpses, and carved "C Company" or the ace of spades onto their chests, slaughtered animals, and torched hooches. Other soldiers had wept openly as they fired on crowds of unresisting old men, women, children, and babies."–description of the My Lai massacre (16 March 1968). From An Intimate History of Killing, p 160.' |
| The August 20 1998 U.S. bombing of the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant, the small factory that provided more than half the medicine for Sudan. |
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NIS, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - A woman lies dead beside a bag of carrots Friday May 7 1999 after a NATO daylight air raid near a market over the town of Nis south of Belgrade. Two residential areas and a hospital were hit by what appears to be cluster bombs killing 15 people, injuring scores with shrapnel and destroying some 30 homes. Photo by Desmond Boylan |
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On January 25th 1999 an American AGM-130 missile struck the residential district of Al Jumhuriya, Basra, Iraq. 6 year old Nor is found dead in the rubble. Photo by Iraqi photo journalist Nabil Al Jorani. |
| Kim Phuc, nine years old, fleeing her village after being bombed with napalm in Vietnam. |
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Afghans remove rubble of a damaged building in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday Oct. 31, 2001. A doctor working at a Red Crescent dispensary in Kandahar said that the dispensary was hit in a pre-dawn American air raid Wednesday and that 15 people were killed. (AP Photo/APTN) |
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US-led air strikes over Basra, March 22, 2003. "The children seem to be the most openly enthused. They are getting a chance at a future the likes of which would never have been possible under the oppressive regime..." – April 22, 2003, Marine Corps News, Story by Staff Sgt. Bryan P. Reed." |
| A brave American soldier torturing an Iraqi prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. |
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US troops killed this little girl's parents when they approached a checkpoint in Tal Afar, Iraq. The BBC has  the story.
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| A dead child is carried by an aid worker. Scenes from the Qana massacre, on July 30, 2006. Many civilians including children were massacred by US-made and US-funded Israeli terrorist warplanes. |