SHOWS FORMER ARMY SGT DANNY NOTELY TALKING TO NEWSMEN OUTSIDE CAPITOL BUILDING FOLLOWING APPEARANCE BEFORE UNOFFICIAL SELF CONSTITUTED CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE HEARING VOLUNTEER ACCOUNTS OF ALLEGED WAR CRIMES.




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Background: ....HE DESCRIBES EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF MASSACRE OF 30 VIETNAMESE WOMEN AND CHILDREN YEAR AFTER MY LAI.

SAYS THAT NIGHT BEFORE INCIDENT ONE MAN IN HIS PLATOON WAS KILLED BY BOOBY TRAP, WHICH ANGERED SOME OF THE MEN TENSION INCREASED FOLLOWING DAY IN ASSAULT ON VILLAGE 2GBP343 5GBP36 (8))3 9.3 ?7%%-//?7%%-)9XXXX WHERE THEY HXXWHERE THEY LEFT VILLAGE, THEN PLATOON LEADER SENT A SQUAD BACK INTO VILLAGE, ONLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN THERE FOUR OR FIVE OF THEM PLATOON MEMBERS BEGAN SHOOTING WOMEN AND CHILDREN, HEAXXHEREXXHERDED TOGETHER INT THREE GROUPS OF TEN EACH, NOTELY SAYS HE WAS SHOCKED WITH DISBELIEF AS IF IN A NIGHTMARE. SAYS AIR STRIKE WAS LATER CALLED ON VILLAGE TO COVER UP KILLINGS, THAT BATTALION COMMANDER WAS PRESENT AND AXXSAW INCIDENT BUT DID NOTHING.