List of attacks on civilians attributed to United States government forces
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The following is a partial list of attacks on civilians attributed to armed groups under the control of the United States government, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces under U.S. control. The items on the list are sites widely (though not in all cases universally) considered to be of a civilian nature that were directly (though in some cases mistakenly) targeted, and do not include errant bombs or other collateral damage resulting from imprecise attacks on military targets.
List of Attacks[edit]
| Attack | Location | Date | Dead | Injured | Perpetrators | Type | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic bombing of German cities during World War II | Germany (primarily Dresden, Hamburg) | 1943–1945 | 22,700–35,000 (Dresden), 37,000 (Hamburg) | US Air Force, Royal Air Force | Bombing | [1][2] | |
| No Gun Ri massacre | Nogeun-ri, South Korea | 1950-07-26 to 1950-07-29 | 163–400+ | 55+ | US Army, 7th Cavalry Regiment | Bombing, mass murder | |
| Bombing of North Korean cities during the Korean War | North Korea | 1950–1953 | 282,000 | US Air Force, primarily B-29 bombers | Bombing | [3][4] | |
| Tiger Force war crimes | Hiệp Đức District-Quế Sơn Valley, Vietnam | May 1967 to November 1967 | Hundreds | US Army, Tiger Force | Rape, torture, mass murder | [5] | |
| Mỹ Lai massacre | Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam | 1968-03-16 | 347–504 | US Army | Mass rape, torture, mass murder | ||
| Iran Air Flight 655 | Iranian airspace, Persian Gulf | 1988-07-03 | 290 | 0 | USS Vincennes (CG-49) | Missile strike | [6] |
| Infant formula production plant | Abu Ghraib, Iraq | 1991-01-21 | Bombing | [7] | |||
| Amiriyah shelter bombing | Amiriyah, Iraq | 1991-02-13 | 408 | Bombing | [7] | ||
| Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory | Khartoum, Sudan | 1998-08-20 | 1 | 11 | Bombing | [7] | |
| Grdelica train bombing | Grdelica, Serbia | 1999-04-12 | 14 | F-15E fighter jet | Bombing | [7] | |
| Radio Television of Serbia | Belgrade, Serbia | 1999-04-23 | 16 | Bombing | [7] | ||
| Chinese embassy | Belgrade, Serbia | 1999-05-07 | 3 | 20 | Bombing | [7] | |
| Red Cross complex | Kabul, Afghanistan | 2001-10-16 | Bombing | [7] | |||
| Red Cross complex | Kabul, Afghanistan | 2001-10-26 | Bombing | [7] | |||
| Al Jazeera office | Kabul, Afghanistan | 2001-11-13 | Bombing | [7] | |||
| Al Jazeera office | Baghdad, Iraq | 2003-04-08 | 1 | 1 | Bombing | [7] | |
| Palestine Hotel | Baghdad, Iraq | 2003-04-08 | 2 | Bombing | [7] | ||
| Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre | Mukaradeeb, Iraq | 2004-05-19 | 42 | US Air Force | Bombing | ||
| Haditha massacre | Haditha, Iraq | 2005-11-19 | 24 | 5 | Mass murder | ||
| Mahmudiyah rape and killings | Yusufiyah, Iraq | 2006-03-12 | 4 | US Army | Rape, mass murder | ||
| Ishaqi executions | Ishaqi, Iraq | 2006-03-15 | 11 | Mass murder, summary execution | |||
| July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike | Baghdad, Iraq | 2007-07-12 | 12–18 | AH-64 Apache | Bombing | [8][circular reference] | |
| Haska Meyna wedding party airstrike | Haska Meyna, Afghanistan | 2008-07-06 | 48 | Bombing | |||
| Maywand District murders | Kandahar Province, Afghanistan | 2009-06 to 2010-06 | 3+ | Murder | |||
| Kandahar massacre | Panjwai District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan | 2012-03-11 | 16 | 6 | Mass murder | ||
| United States led air strike on Bir Mahali village | Bir Mahali, | 2015-03-30 | 64 | Bombing | |||
| Kunduz hospital airstrike | Kunduz, Afghanistan | 2015-10-03 | 22 | 37 | US AC-130 gunship | Bombing | [7] |
| 2017 Mosul airstrike | Mosul, Iraq | 2017-03-17 | 290+ | Unknown injured | Bombing |
See also[edit]
- Civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes
- Civilian casualties during Operation Allied Force
- List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States
- Drone strikes in Yemen
- List of drone strikes in Pakistan
References[edit]
- ↑ Rummel, R. J. (1998). Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder since 1900. Münster, Germany: LIT Verlag. pp. Chapter 13. ISBN 3-8258-4010-7. OCLC 41085383. Search this book on
- ↑ Dyson, Freeman (1 November 2006), "Part I: A Failure of Intelligence", Technology Review, retrieved 13 May 2020
- ↑ Wilson Center, 1 August 2001 "New Evidence of North Korean War Losses"
- ↑ Cumings, Bruce (2003). North Korea: Another Country. New York: New Press. ISBN 1-56584-873-X. OCLC 53013421. Search this book on
- ↑ Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken (2017). The Vietnam War: An Intimate History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. 235–8. ISBN 9781524733100. Search this book on
- ↑ "The Other Lockerbie". BBC News. 17 April 2000. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 Jon Schwarz (2015-10-07). "A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities". The Intercept.
- ↑ "July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike". Retrieved 29 August 2021.
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