Which Vietnam village was the scene of an horrific massacre in 1968
"Xuân Oánh and Nguyen Thi Oanh respond to official British Government documents recommending the ""exploitation"" of Vietnam's cheap labour in the EPZs. An elderly resident recalls the My Lai Massacre, the site of which Pilger contrasts with the Củ Chi tunnels tourist site. Film producer David Puttnam, video store assistant Andrea Barnes and Vietnamese-American Phan Quan critique Hollywood movies promoting a self-pitying American view of the conflict, which Robert Muller traces back to Ronald Reagan. Nguyen Thi Oanh states that, because of its victory, Vietnam, unlike the U.S., has been able to move on from the war. Vietnam: The Last"
"Sơn Mỹ Memorial The Sơn Mỹ Memorial () is a memorial to victims of the My Lai Massacre in Son My, Vietnam. It is located in the village of Tịnh Khê, Sơn Tịnh District, Quảng Ngãi Province. U.S. soldiers killed at least 504 Vietnamese in this area on 16 March 1968. The memorial was built in 1978. At the time of the massacre, Sơn Mỹ was a village that included Mỹ Lai and several other hamlets. Because Mỹ Lai was not the only hamlet involved, the Vietnamese media refers to the event as the ""Sơn Mỹ massacre."" Sơn Mỹ was"
"Đắk Sơn massacre The Đắk Sơn Massacre was a massacre committed by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, in the village of Đắk Sơn, Đắk Lắk Province, South Vietnam. Prior to the attack, earlier battles had occurred between the Viet Cong and the village defence militias. On December 5, 1967, two battalions of Viet Cong attacked Dak Son village, and after a battle with the defence militia, were alleged to have killed between 114 to 252 civilians in a ""vengeance"" attack on the hamlet of Đắk Sơn, home to over 2,000 Montagnards. The Viet Cong believed that the hamlet"
"villagers were taken hostage. Đắk Sơn massacre The Đắk Sơn Massacre was a massacre committed by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, in the village of Đắk Sơn, Đắk Lắk Province, South Vietnam. Prior to the attack, earlier battles had occurred between the Viet Cong and the village defence militias. On December 5, 1967, two battalions of Viet Cong attacked Dak Son village, and after a battle with the defence militia, were alleged to have killed between 114 to 252 civilians in a ""vengeance"" attack on the hamlet of Đắk Sơn, home to over 2,000 Montagnards. The Viet Cong"
"on 16 March 1968. Some of the victims were raped, beaten, tortured, or maimed, and some of the bodies were found mutilated. The massacre took place in the hamlets of Mỹ Lai and My Khe of Sơn Mỹ village during the Vietnam War. Of the 26 U.S. soldiers initially charged with criminal offenses or war crimes for actions at My Lai, only William Calley was convicted. Initially sentenced to life in prison, Calley had his sentence reduced to ten years, then was released after only three and a half years under house arrest. The incident prompted widespread outrage around the"
"Viet Cong eschewed the use of stand-off weapons and directly attacked villages and hamlets with the express intention of killing men, women and children to sow havoc, panic and insecurity. A 1968 attack on the hamlet of Son Tra in Quang Ngai province for example, used flamethrowers to incinerate 78 civilians, wounded many more, and destroyed most of the hamlet. Terror results could also be achieved by provoking hasty reaction or retaliation attacks by ARVN or American forces on villagers through sniping, raids, or placing of mines and booby traps in and near villages or hamlets. Such reactions had the"
"5, 1969, with six specifications of premeditated murder for the deaths of 109 South Vietnamese civilians near the village of Sơn Mỹ, at a hamlet called My Lai, simply referred to as ""My Lai"" in the U.S. press. As many as 500 villagers—mostly women, children, infants, and the elderly—had been systematically killed by American soldiers during a bloody rampage on March 16, 1968. Upon conviction, Calley could have faced the death penalty. On November 12, 1969, investigative reporters Seymour Hersh and Wayne Greenhaw broke the story and revealed that Calley had been charged with murdering 109 Vietnamese. Calley's trial started"
"Binh Tai Massacre The Bình Tai Massacre was a massacre purportedly perpetrated by South Korean Forces on 9 October 1966 of 168 citizens in Binh Tai village of Bình Định Province in South Vietnam. The South Korean newspaper, ""The Hankyoreh"", investigated war crimes in Vietnam and revealed other atrocities. Colonel Kim Ki-tae, former commander of the Seventh Company, 2nd Marine Division of the ROK Marines, confessed in ""The Hankyoreh"" that on 9 October 1966 South Korean troops airlifted by helicopters set fire to the Binh Tai villagers' homes and shot the villagers who fled the burning buildings. The raid had"
"massacre have also testified at the Korean Peace Museum in Seoul, although these massacres were denied by some Korean veterans serving in South Vietnam. Bình An/Tây Vinh massacre The Bình An / Tây Vinh massacre () was a series of massacres alleged to have been conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12, 1966 and March 17, 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in the Go Dai village and other areas in the rural commune of Bình An/ Tây Vinh area, Tây Sơn District of Bình Định Province in South Vietnam. The massacre was reported"
"Hà My massacre The Hà My Massacre was a massacre purportedly conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Hà My village, Dien Duong commune, Điện Bàn District Quảng Nam Province in South Vietnam. According to South Korean anthropologist Heonik Kwon, it was reportedly conducted in retaliation for Vietcong mortar fire that killed a South Korean Marine artillery ""Daewi"" (Captain), a ""Sangsa"" (First Sergeant) and four soldiers. The attack was preceded by two hours of shelling by 152 mm artillery, during which helicopters were circling overhead the village and machine-gunning those that tried to"
"Bình Hòa massacre The Bình Hòa Massacre was a massacre purportedly conducted by South Korean forces between December 3 and December 6, 1966, of 430 unarmed citizens in Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province in South Vietnam. In 2000, however, it was reported that a monument within the village, gave the dates of the massacre as October 22, 24, and 26, 1966 and said that 403 people were killed by the South Koreans. The district was in the operational area of the Blue Dragon Brigade. Most of the victims were children, elderly and women. More than half the victims were"
"Bình An/Tây Vinh massacre The Bình An / Tây Vinh massacre () was a series of massacres alleged to have been conducted by the ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army between February 12, 1966 and March 17, 1966 of 1,200 unarmed citizens in the Go Dai village and other areas in the rural commune of Bình An/ Tây Vinh area, Tây Sơn District of Bình Định Province in South Vietnam. The massacre was reported to have occurred over the course of three weeks, in which 1,004-1,200 civilians were massacred. Like other massacres occurring throughout the region, the targets"
"company had suffered 28 casualties involving mines or booby-traps. Two days before the My Lai massacre the company lost a popular sergeant to a land mine. During the Tet Offensive in January 1968, attacks were carried out in Quảng Ngãi by the 48th Local Force Battalion of the National Liberation Front (NLF), commonly referred to by the U.S. Army as the Viet Cong. U.S. military intelligence assumed that the 48th NLF Battalion, having retreated and dispersed, was taking refuge in the village of Sơn Mỹ, in Quảng Ngãi Province. A number of specific hamlets within that village—designated Mỹ Lai (1)"
"they were relegated to guarding bases later that year and until their departure in 1973. The commune would later earn the designation as a Hero District of the People's Armed Forces of the PAVN. In December 2000, a memorial for the 135 victims was founded in Hà My village. Hà My massacre The Hà My Massacre was a massacre purportedly conducted by the South Korean Marines on 25 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Hà My village, Dien Duong commune, Điện Bàn District Quảng Nam Province in South Vietnam. According to South Korean anthropologist Heonik Kwon, it was reportedly conducted"
"patrol that had found the victims had identified ROK-forces as responsible with no Viet Cong in the vicinity. On 25 February, another massacre purportedly occurred in nearby Hà Mỹ village. Eye-witness testimony from both the members of the CAP-Program and survivors at the hospital prompted grounds for a war-crime investigation for investigation were done from CAP-Commanders and COMUSMACV, both making direct demands that ROK Commander Chae-Myungshin investigate. On 16 April 1968 the III MAF reported on the incident to Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV). A total of five other hamlet massacres were investigated as well, at Hoang Chau hamlet, Phouc"
"was discussed when British journalist Justin Wintle visited Vietnam in the late 1980s, where the report on the massacre was disclosed to Western media. Bình Hòa massacre The Bình Hòa Massacre was a massacre purportedly conducted by South Korean forces between December 3 and December 6, 1966, of 430 unarmed citizens in Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province in South Vietnam. In 2000, however, it was reported that a monument within the village, gave the dates of the massacre as October 22, 24, and 26, 1966 and said that 403 people were killed by the South Koreans. The district was"
"civilians in a war zone. In 1968, an American journalist, Jonathan Schell, wrote that in the Vietnamese province of Quang Ngai, where the Mỹ Lai massacre occurred, up to 70% of all villages were destroyed by the air strikes and artillery bombardments, including the use of napalm; 40% percent of the population were refugees, and the overall civilian casualties were close to 50,000 a year. Regarding the massacre at Mỹ Lai, he stated, ""There can be no doubt that such an atrocity was possible only because a number of other methods of killing civilians and destroying their villages had come"
"Sơn Tịnh District Sơn Tịnh () is a district of Quảng Ngãi Province, in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, situated to the northeast of the town of Quảng Ngãi. The hamlet of Mỹ Lai of the Sơn Mỹ village, Tinh Khe commune was the site of the massacre of non-combatants committed by United States Army troops in 1968, today documented in Son My Memorial Park in Son My's sub-hamlet of Tu Cung. My Khe Beach is an attractive 8 km long beach situated in the Co Luy Village of Tinh Khe commune. Tinh Phong Industrial Park (khu công"
"Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre The Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre (, Vietnamese: ""Thảm sát Phong Nhất và Phong Nhị"") was a massacre reported to have been conducted by the 2nd Marine Division of the South Korean Marine Corps on 12 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất village, Điện Bàn District of Quảng Nam Province in South Vietnam. The South Korean forces had been newly transferred from the area, in the wake of the Tet Offensive, with the village located in a densely populated region in and around Da Nang. Transferring Korean Marines"
"Mỹ Trạch massacre The My Trach Massacre (') was a massacre of Vietnamese civilians carried out by the French army during French rule in Vietnam. The massacre occurred in Mỹ Trạch village, Mỹ Thủy commune, Lệ Thủy District, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam from 12 pm to 2 am on 29 November 1947. In this operation, 326 houses were burnt. Many women were raped by the French soldiers before being killed. Over 300 civilian residents in Mỹ Trạch were killed, of whom 170 were women and 157 were children. Many entire families were killed. The location of the massacre was in"
"the border areas of Thailand near Aranyaprathet. Brutal murders of Thai villagers, including women and children, were the first widely reported concrete evidence of Khmer Rouge atrocities. There were also incidents along the Laos border. At approximately the same time, villages in Vietnam's border areas underwent renewed attacks. In turn, Vietnam launched air strikes against Cambodia. From April 18 to 30, 1975, Cambodian troops, after invading Vietnamese province of An Giang, carried out the Ba Chúc massacre causing 3,157 civilian death in province of Tây Ninh, Vietnam. In September, border fighting resulted in as many as 1,000 Vietnamese civilian casualties."
"to farmland. Firebase Vera Firebase Vera was a U.S. Army firebase located near the Cambodian border southwest of Pleiku in central Vietnam. Vera was constructed in October 1968 by the 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry approximately 6 km from the Cambodian border, 8 km south of Đức Cơ Camp and 50 km southwest of Pleiku. Vera was assaulted by People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) sappers under cover of mortar fire on the early morning of 14 November 1968, the assault was repulsed for the loss of 6 U.S. and 6 PAVN killed. Units based at Vera included: The base has been"
"Châu Đốc massacre The Chau Doc massacre was the July 11, 1957 killing of 17 people in the small town of Châu Đốc in An Giang Province, near the border with Cambodia, in what was then known as South Vietnam. The killings were part of a low-level campaign targeting South Vietnamese officials. Thousands of Viet Minh cadres had stayed behind after the country was split into North and South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese government maintained that a referendum on unification in line with the Geneva Accords would go ahead. As such they forbade the southern Viet Minh cadres from anything"
"Infantry (Americal) Division. On March 16, 1968, a company of Americal Division troops led by Captain Ernest Medina and Lieutenant William Calley slaughtered hundreds of civilians in a South Vietnamese hamlet known as My Lai (referred to as ""Pinkville"" by the troops). While no official count was made, soldiers and investigators later estimated that 350 to 500 women, children and old men were killed with grenades, rifles, bayonets, and machine guns; some were burned to death in their huts. Corpses were piled in ditches that became mass graves. No Viet Cong were ever discovered in the village and no shots"
"During the communist hardship governing, hundred of villagers has fled the country to America. Cầu Hai Cầu Hai is a town in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province, Vietnam. Located in the middle between Huế and Đà Nẵng cities, Cầu Hai is on the bank of the Cầu Hai river and at the foot of Bạch Mã National Park. In 1968, few months before the Tết Offensive, the Cầu Hai bridge was blown up by North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong. The bridge was later rebuilt. Over the Cầu Hai Bay is the beautiful My A village. My A was famous for her"
"forces during the Vietnam War were more extensive than had been officially acknowledged. The documents are housed by the United States National Archives and Records Administration, and detail 320 alleged incidents that were substantiated by United States Army investigators (not including the 1968 My Lai Massacre). (See also Winter Soldier Investigation). The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, almost entirely civilians, most of them women and children, conducted by U.S. soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division,"
"divided into four hamlets: Mỹ Lai, Co Luy, My Khe, and Tư Cung. The U.S. Army designated the various sectors of each hamlet in the form My Lai (1), My Lai (2), etc. The massacre took place, most notably in My Lai (4) (Xom Lang subhamlet) and in My Khe (4) (My Hoi subhamlet), but also in My Lai (5) (Binh Dong and Binh Tay subhamlets) and in Tư Cung. The memorial is in the former hamlet of Tư Cung. In 2003, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced an 11.7 billion đồng contract to upgrade the building. Sơn"
"children, were deported, along with their belongings and livestock, in trucks, river boats and helicopters to relocation camps. After the deportation of the village's population, Ben Suc was systematically erased by American engineers who first burned the village's buildings to the ground and then leveled their remnants as well as the surrounding vegetation using bulldozers. Bến Súc Bến Súc was a village in Dầu Tiếng District that was evacuated then systematically destroyed in January 1967, Operation Cedar Falls, during the Vietnam War. Today, the modern village of , Dầu Tiếng is located on the site of Bến Súc. Ben Suc"
"on one hand and a club in the other, an infant clinging to the breast of their dead mother, an angry and defiant young woman clenching her first towards the sky. Thuy Bo incident The Thuy Bo incident was the killing of civilians by U.S. Marines from 31 January to 1 February 1967, during the Vietnam War in Thủy Bồ village () in Điện Bàn District, Quảng Nam Province 15km southwest of Đà Nẵng, in an area close to the foothills of the Central Highlands and situated near the Bo Bo Hills. Vietnamese communist sources claim that the Marines massacred"
"Massacre at Huế The Huế Massacre (, or , lit. translation: ""Tết Offensive Massacre in Huế"") is the name given to the summary executions and mass killings perpetrated by the Việt Cộng (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during their capture, occupation and later withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tết Offensive, considered one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. The Battle of Huế began on January 31, 1968, and lasted a total of 26 days. During the months and years that followed, dozens of mass graves were discovered in and around Huế."
"People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) units operated at night, and employed terror as a standard tactic. Rice procured at gunpoint sustained the Việt Cộng. Squads were assigned monthly assassination quotas. Government employees, especially village and district heads, were the most common targets. But there were a wide variety of targets, including clinics and medical personnel. Notable Việt Cộng atrocities include the massacre of over 3,000 unarmed civilians at Huế, 48 killed in the bombing of My Canh floating restaurant in Saigon in June 1965 and a massacre of 252 Montagnards in the village of Đắk Sơn in"
"Firebase Vera Firebase Vera was a U.S. Army firebase located near the Cambodian border southwest of Pleiku in central Vietnam. Vera was constructed in October 1968 by the 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry approximately 6 km from the Cambodian border, 8 km south of Đức Cơ Camp and 50 km southwest of Pleiku. Vera was assaulted by People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) sappers under cover of mortar fire on the early morning of 14 November 1968, the assault was repulsed for the loss of 6 U.S. and 6 PAVN killed. Units based at Vera included: The base has been turned over"
"Thuy Bo incident The Thuy Bo incident was the killing of civilians by U.S. Marines from 31 January to 1 February 1967, during the Vietnam War in Thủy Bồ village () in Điện Bàn District, Quảng Nam Province 15km southwest of Đà Nẵng, in an area close to the foothills of the Central Highlands and situated near the Bo Bo Hills. Vietnamese communist sources claim that the Marines massacred civilians here and the memorial erected to the event records 145 civilian deaths, mainly women, children and elderly men. US sources claim that 22 civilians were killed in two days of"