Marioara Rostas’s death symbolises a society ravaged by drug-fuelled violence.

The only US Army officer convicted over the 1968 massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai has made an extraordinary public apology while speaking to a small group near the military base where he went on trial.

Hugh Thompson, a former US Army helicopter pilot honoured for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow soldiers during the My Lai massacre, died early yesterday. He was 62.

SEYMOUR HERSCH’S allegations that US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon were behind the decision to abuse the Arab prisoners sexually so that they would talk must be taken seriously.