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"Historians and other interpreters of the massacre, however, have ignored or avoided the question of intent. They haven’t investigated whether the soldiers fired purposefully at particular persons. Their accounts create the impression of the troops shooting mindlessly and arbitrarily at an undifferentiated mass of humanity."

Yet a closer examination suggests a new possibility — a possibility that tips the scales towards military culpability. Some of the soldiers got away with murder.