Whenever there's coverage of this in US/western media (a relatively rare phenomenon considering the hundreds of cases like this in just the past decade), the reaction is usually minimal. At best, a few outraged centre-left will say it's a shame that the people responsible were never prosecuted. But this sidesteps the fact that this issue is systemic, the US culture and legal system allows this to happen over and over, and the entire government is criminal.
Why is this story flagged? It should not be, it's an important piece of history and I think meets all the criteria for an interesting HN story submission.
Hard to pretend this is the actions of a few bad apples when the US still won’t join the International Criminal Court [1], going so far as to threaten retaliation if US officials are brought before an international tribunal [2].<p>1: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_International_Criminal_Court" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat...</a><p>2: <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law" rel="nofollow">https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...</a>
Absolutely horrid. Are those people going to be tried for war crimes, or because the victims are "third world" citizens then it doesn't matter?