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A free-fire zone is an area in which any person present is deemed an enemy combatant who can be targeted by opposing military forces. The concept of a free-fire zone does not exist in international law, and failing to distinguish between combatants and civilians is a war crime. [1]
Lewy estimated the use of free-fire zones was an important factor in this. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] For official U.S. military operations reports on free-fire zones, there are no distinctions between enemy KIA and civilian KIA since it was assumed by U.S. forces that all individuals killed in an area declared a free-fire zone, regardless of whether they ...
Nick Turse in his book Kill Anything That Moves asserts that "free fire zones", where any human present could be killed, helped the 9th Division achieve an unlikely enemy-to-GI kill ratio of 134:1 in April 1969. [21] It has also been asserted that the operation targeted "people running, people in black pajamas, civilians past night-time".
At 03:00 on 30 January, the 200-man 6th Binh Tan Battalion and 100 conscripted civilian porters, infiltrated the city from the west and were met by local VC guides who led them to the Phú Thọ Racetrack. A second set of guides who were supposed to lead the Battalion to the Chí Hòa Prison didn't turn up and eventually the Battalion commander ...
The elaborate Communist command structure was supervised by multiple directorates and divided South Vietnam into operational zones. Given the Communist Party's dominance over all spheres of Northern Vietnamese society, including the military struggle, it is impossible to understand NLF/PAVN organization, strategy and tactics without detailing ...
The same year, California lawmakers passed a bill that would have required local governments to adopt retrofitting programs for existing communities in fire risk zones and restricted the scale of ...
About one-third of the 875,000 people of Bình Định were displaced in 1966 by the war. In some instances the displacement of people by the U.S. and South Vietnam was deliberate, forcing people to leave the Kim Son and An Lao valleys and declaring them free fire zones. [9]: 58–9
The NewsNation contributor called it a “unique time in history” that would give the former president a “free-fire zone” to implement his agenda.