USA Africa Dialogue Series - baga massacre

history repeated here, with stories of villages attacked by military in revenge for resistance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/world/africa/nigerian-villages-destruction-is-shown-in-photos.html?ref=global-home

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Satellite images corroborate the accounts of residents of a fishing village north of here who say that thousands of their homes were destroyed by fire during a recent storm of violence carried out by rampaging soldiers, according to Human Rights Watch.

The New York Times

The images show “massive destruction of civilian property” during a military raid on April 16 and 17, the organization said in a statement released early Wednesday. The raid was set off by a clash between gunmen presumed to be members of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram and a military unit based in the town, in which one soldier was killed.

Spike Lee made a movie about this:
The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre was a Nazi German atrocity in the hill village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, in the course of an operation against the Italian resistance movement during the Italian Campaign of World War II. On 12 August 1944, about 560 local villagers and refugees were murdered and their bodies burnt in a scorched earth policy action by the German occupation forces of the Waffen-SS.

68 years on, German prosecutors return to Oradour in new hunt for six perpetrators of French village massacre who may still be alive

• 452 women and children killed in Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
• Hitler's SS Panzer Division committed the atrocity on June 10, 1944
• It was to avenge death of German officer at hands of French Resistance
• Nazi commander told his 200 troops: ‘Today the blood must flow’
  
• Village left untouched since fateful day to serve as reminder of Nazi evil
  
• German authorities believe six Nazis in their late 80s are still at large
• Only one man, Heinz Barth, has ever been prosecuted for the attack
• He called for the shooting of 20 male villagers and received a life sentence
• Case was re-opened after discovery of documents implicating six suspects
  

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270587/Germany-launches-fresh-investigation-Nazi-massacre-saw-642-French-villagers-slaughtered-day.html#ixzz2S8XHh1gj

this is from wikipedia:

German atrocities

Sign in German and Greek erected at the village of Kandanos in Crete, which was wholly destroyed by the Germans as reprisal for a partisan attack. The German portion of the sign reads: "Kandanos was destroyed in retaliation for the bestial ambush murder of a paratrooper platoon and a half-platoon of military engineers by armed men and women."

Increasing attacks by partisans in the latter years of the occupation resulted in a number of executions and wholesale slaughter of civilians in reprisal. In total, the Germans executed some 21,000 Greeks, the Bulgarians 40,000 and the Italians 9,000.^[10]

The most infamous examples in the German zone are those of the village of Kommeno on 16 August 1943, where 317 inhabitants were executed by the 1. Gebirgs-Division and the village torched, the "Holocaust of Viannos" on 14–16 September 1943, in which over 500 civilians from several villages in the region of Viannos and Ierapetra in Crete were executed by the 22. Luftlande Infanterie-Division, the "Massacre of Kalavryta" on 13 December 1943, in which Wehrmacht troops of the 117th Jäger Division carried out the extermination of the entire male population and the subsequent total destruction of the town, the "Distomo massacre" on 10 June 1944, where units of the Waffen SS Polizei Division looted and burned the village of Distomo in Boeotia resulting in the deaths of 218 civilians and the "Holocaust of Kedros" on 22 August 1944 in Crete, where 164 civilians were executed and nine villages were dynamited after being looted.

And to be perfectly even-handed, for those who have forgotten, the U.S. was no different when lt. Calley ordered the attack on My Lai in Vietnam
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