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| | Buried secrets, brutal truths: 'Free-fire' zone label set stage for abuses |
 | | Time and again, Tiger Force soldiers turned free-fire zones into crime zones, killing unarmed men, women and children. |
 | | They weren't carrying weapons, or dressed in enemy uniforms, but it didn't matter: They were living in a free-fire zone. |
 | | "A free-fire zone doesn't mean a free-crime zone," said Gary Solis, a former Marine prosecutor who wrote the Vietnam war crimes book "Son Thang." "Just because it's a free-fire zone, doesn't mean you can go in and shoot whoever you run into." |
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