US servicemen murdered at least seventeen women in Okinawa during the Vietnam War
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
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Some Okinawan deaths at U.S. hands were deliberate murders by servicemen (similarity 0.95)
- US military ‘incidents and accidents’ killed dozens of Okinawans. (similarity 0.82)