I don't see how that's relevant to the point I was making.
What I meant by the military not turning a blind eye, they are forced into a public response when exposed and denial no longer works.
Initially, three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and rescue the hiding civilians were shunned, and even denounced as traitors by several U.S. Congressmen,
A twenty one year old writes;
'It would indeed be terrible to find it necessary to believe that an American soldier that harbors such racial intolerance and disregard for justice and human feeling is a prototype of all American national character; yet the frequency of such soldiers lends credulity to such beliefs. ... What has been outlined here I have seen not only in my own unit, but also in others we have worked with, and I fear it is universal. If this is indeed the case, it is a problem which cannot be overlooked, but can through a more firm implementation of the codes of MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam) and the Geneva Conventions, perhaps be eradicated.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
The document shows how Kerry was opposed to the inhumane tactics that were used by soldiers to suppress the enemy as they amounted to war crimes.
https://essayswriters.com/essays/History/john-kerry-denounces-the-vietnam-war.html
Or the human rights violations against detainees in the Abu
Ghraib Iraq. These are all 'war crimes'.
Abu Ghraib is a city in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq, located just west of Baghdad's city center, or northwest of Baghdad International Airport. It has a population of 189,000. The old road to Jordan passes through Abu Ghraib. The government of Iraq created the city and Abu Ghraib District in 1944.
en.wikipedia.org
prison in Iraq. These violations included
physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and murder.