Consider US troops moving into Germany in WWII. Artillery shot at everything, troops shot at anything, the entire country was in effect a "free fire zone". It's war. The difference is that in Germany it was at a distance. Once the territory was taken, the vast majority of the shooting was over. The civilians were no threat.
In Vietnam it was close-up, the territory wasn't taken, and the difference between civilian and combatant was blurred into oblivian. And still, rounding them up and shooting them was not OK.
However, I can guarantee you that neither Amnesty International nor the UN was going to come into the area to try to determine the combat status of the people there. They would have lasted about as long as a pound of hot dogs at a Boy Scout campout.
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