Some Okinawan deaths at U.S. hands were deliberate murders by servicemen

Evidence

Not all the deaths were accidental. In 1955, a court convicted a U.S. sergeant of abducting, raping, and killing a six-year-old girl. During the Vietnam War, reports suggest that U.S. military personnel deployed to Okinawa or on leave there killed seventeen women. Eleven of them had been working as bar hostesses or sauna attendants. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 848

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the book’s running theme that the heaviest base-related harms fall on women and on sex workers specifically.