GI crimes abroad have repeatedly triggered mass protests against U.S. bases

Evidence

In the Philippines, GI crimes similarly helped energize the movement that forced the U.S. military to leave the country in the early 1990s. More recently, a marine, who is among the hundreds of U.S. troops to return to the Philippines since 2002, was charged with murdering a transgender Filipina, who was found with a broken neck on a hotel room toilet. In South Korea, support for U.S. troops—long credited with protecting the South from communist invasion—was profoundly shaken when an armored vehicle killed two teenaged girls during a training exercise in 2002. The largest-ever protests against the U.S. presence followed. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 860

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader research question tracking how local incidents catalyze opposition to U.S. basing worldwide.