[buwaya]

No, it was an atrocity, in a general sense. The Viet officer can probably be excused his state of mind given what he had seen that day, but it was still a criminal act .

Interestingly both the Viets and Commies and the “West” saw it the same way.

There is a much smaller gap between East Asian and Euro ethical standards than one would think. Even the mainland Chinese are ashamed, on some level, about what they have done or are doing. They limit the spread of this information domestically because they know what their own people will think.

[jonrick46]

Look what the Japanese did to the Chinese right after the Doolittle Raid. There is a vein of evil going through the human race.

[Pelham]

"The man on the right in the photo, the dead man, is not a civilian. His name was Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong officer also known as Bảy Lốp. He was in charge of a death squad that was tasked to attack Vietnamese officers and their families. Shortly before his arrest, he had slaughtered Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Tuan, his wife, his six children, and his 80-year-old mother. When the media reported this story, part of the American public became convinced that — after all — the man in uniform hadn’t done all that badly to pull the trigger."

https://pierpaoloferlaino.medium.com/the-execution-of-nguy%E1%BB%85n-v%C4%83n-l%C3%A9m-71c197af69b0