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No one was legally safe from U.S. counterinsurgent violence. The rules imposed no limits, either because the Filipinos were unprotected by law or because those generously distinguished as noncombatants under the law were still eligible for reprisals, which the Lieber Code did not ban (and almost encouraged).
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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