The My Lai Massacre

During the Vietnam war, the people that were living in South Vietnam were stuck between the American army and the communist Vietcong. This left them in a lot of danger and led to many innocent people getting killed. One of the more prominent instances of people being killed for no good reason is the My Lai Massacre. 

The leader of the soldiers was William Calley, and his company of soldiers, the Charles Company, was known to be one of the best companies in the army. They were known to be efficient and obedient and being in Vietnam had left them trigger happy and itching to do something meaningful.

The soldiers thought that they were going to a vietcong-occupied village, but when they arrived they found that they were in a small farming village. When they searched for weapons and came out relatively empty-handed, they continued their mission and rounded up the civilians. After the soldiers directed the civilians to one place in the center of the village, they killed them all. Around 500 innocent South Vietnamese villagers were killed because of the paranoia and restlessness of the American soldiers that were supposed to be protecting them.