Tiger Force answers still elusive
Washington slow in responding to calls for Army prosecution
By JOE MAHR
BLADE STAFF WRITER
For 37 years former Army journalist Dennis Stout has waited for answers - and justice - after witnessing members of an elite platoon in Vietnam kill unarmed civilians.
The Army conducted a major probe in the 1970s but buried the results and did not charge anyone. After The Blade exposed the atrocities in October, the Army began reviewing its case again - even reinterviewing Mr. Stout - and told U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D., Cleveland) that answers would be available at the end of March.
They're still waiting.
Mr. Kucinich sent a letter this week to acting Army Secretary Les Brownlee asking again why the Army did not prosecute former members of the unit known as Tiger Force and whether it plans to prosecute them now.
"I hope that the Army today is taking seriously the crimes committed by people in uniform in 1967, and the failure of the Army to prosecute even one of those cases," Mr. Kucinich wrote.
The Blade's October series, "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths," documented the war crimes of...(Full Story)
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