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Originally posted by CET
He said he committed, them. Even if he didn't and he only witnessed them, it was his duty as an officer to stop and report said crimes. Otherwise, he is also guilty of said war crimes under the UCMJ.
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KERRY (videotape, 1971): I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense that I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free fire zones. I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire. I did take part in search and destroy missions, in which the houses of noncombatants were burned to the ground. And all of these, I find out later on, these acts are contrary to the Hague and Geneva conventions and to the laws of warfare. So in that sense, anybody who took part in those, if you carry out the application of the Nuremberg principles is, in fact, guilty.