It's a retcon to make the hulk more heroic and the devil hulk persona more dangerous, everyone calm down, hulk has obviously killed and both pak and ewing know it.
One of marvel's most famous heroes can't just be known as some uncontrolled mass murderer that can murder innocents in cities and still get on the avengers roster, he has to have some sort of excuse, and the general idea is that he's a fairly gentle hearted ridiculously powerful creature with the biggest anger issues in comics that the majority of the time simply wants to be left alone yet gets bothered time and time again, and banner doesn't wish anyone harm either.
Even before pak, he wasn't just randomly murdering people other than when he hated them or went on a rampage. His acts of non-bendis murder usually happened when he was driven insane, it was a criminal/he really hated the person, or had some sort of other reason to not be held accountable, as characters have noted even after the retcon. Jackie Mcgee for example. Hulk himself noted it in WWH, and Amadeus refuted it.
The hulk is capable of holding back lol, though I'll freely admit that pak's explanation stretches or breaks believability in that every time he smashed banner calculated it to pull his punches enough to not kill anyone even in the aftermath, which was clearly not true. But a retcon is a retcon. It's true now.
Also keep in mind that a good chunk of the Hulk's appearances are in some sort of intelligent, more brutal form, so this statement mostly applies to savage hulk, who really doesn't run around killing people nonsensically, even the military.
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