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The "Mere Gook Rule" (MGR) was a controversial name that U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War had for what they claim was an unofficial policy under which soldiers would be prosecuted very leniently, if at all, for harming or killing "gooks" – a commonly-used derogatory slang term for Vietnamese civilians – even if the victims turned out to have no connection to the Viet Cong or to the North Vietnamese Army.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 8 relations: Court-martial, Gook, Los Angeles Times, People's Army of Vietnam, Vice (magazine), Viet Cong, Vietnam War, War crime.

  2. Anti-Vietnamese sentiment
  3. Military terminology of the United States
  4. Vietnam War crimes committed by the United States

Court-martial

A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.

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Gook

Gook is a derogatory term for people of East and Southeast Asian descent. Mere Gook Rule and Gook are Anti-Vietnamese sentiment.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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People's Army of Vietnam

The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), officially the Vietnam People's Army (VPA; of Vietnam), also recognized as the Vietnamese Army (lit) or the People's Army (Quân đội Nhân dân), is the national military force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the armed wing of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

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Vice (magazine)

Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.

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Viet Cong

The Viet Cong was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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See also

Anti-Vietnamese sentiment

Military terminology of the United States

Vietnam War crimes committed by the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_Gook_Rule