3. Ernest Medina
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Ernest Lou Medina was the commanding officer of the military unit responsible for the My Lai Massacre, which was the Vietnam War mass killing of up to 504 unarmed civilians. The American soldiers utterly demolished the small village, killing livestock, burning houses, closing wells, destroying crops, and murdering every living person found there. Victims included men, children, infants, and women, with some of the women being gang-raped and mutilated. Medina himself was suspected to have killed as many as three unarmed civilians in My Lai. He was court-martialed in 1971, but was found not-guilty of all charges that same year.
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