My Lai massacre is impossible to forget
Also this year I could not stop myself to thing about My Lai and to pay respect to the victims.
42 years ago on 16 March I was not even born, my mother was just a teenager, in Italy we thought to understand all about the new amazing world leaded by US going to bring the men to the moon few months later.
The cold war was at its best, but was not cold on the other side of the planet.
In a remote village of Vietnam William Calley guided the company “C” to the massacre of an entire Vietnamese village.
Women was raped and shot, children were killed by the bayonet, and the elder was consumed by flamethrower while embracing the babies trying to protect them.
The leaders and responsibles, thanks to Nixon, just got sentenced 2 years of jail changed later in few months.
Today, after all those years,… Continue reading
Thailand Blood Protest
In Bangkok, Thailand, a formidable political protest against the Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is in place since days. It is the movement of “red shirts” the supporter of the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra exiled since 2006.
The “red shirts” are asking resignation of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and to return to the polls.
The red is also the color of blood…. so the demonstrators have decided to donate their own blood to overspread the roads of the capital, with particular attention to the places and to the palaces of the government. The challenge is to force the Prime Minister and his men to choose to return to the polls.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has rejected the ultimatum of opponents, deployed the army and left to the “red shirts” the next move.
I do hope for a peaceful solution of this endless story, the kind Thai people deserve better politicians and a better future.



