Honouring the US Kent State University Martyrs – 4 May 1970 |
Honouring the US Kent State University Martyrs – 4 May 1970
The history of the United States of America is full of violence and illegal killings of innocent people on its land and abroad. The illegal shooting at Kent State University is one of the examples.
It is quite shameful that the American president Richard Nixon did not show any remorse over the illegal killings, and the soldiers from the Ohio National Guard were acquitted of all charges.
Those students were peacefully protesting at the premises of Kent State University and had no political ambitions whatsoever. The only crime they committed was to demand and question the legality of American military action against the innocent civilians of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
The American leaders illegally led the nation to military intervention in Vietnam. The American leaders were quite fearful of the Soviet and Chinese influence in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, and they illegally deployed American soldiers in Vietnam. The American President John F. Kennedy led the American soldiers to be........