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The memorial hall displays photos of the scene and the spears, sticks and other weapons used by the Khmer Rouge to carry out the massacre, [19] [20] and the burial chamber contains the remains of 1,159 uncollected victims of the massacre, of which 1,017 skulls have been classified according to their age. and gender identification, [18 ...
Saigon Execution. Saigon Execution [a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém [b] [c] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon.
John Paul Vann (born John Paul Tripp; July 2, 1924 – June 9, 1972) was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, later retired, who became well known for his role in the Vietnam War.
A crying woman, Phúc's grandmother, Tao, runs in the opposite direction holding her badly burned grandchild, 3-year-old Danh, Phúc's cousin, who died of his injuries (bottom-right frame). Sections of the film shot were included in Hearts and Minds (1974), the Academy Award-winning documentary about the Vietnam War directed by Peter Davis. [24]
Zeng Xueming (Chinese: 曾雪明; [1] October 1905 – 14 November 1991), known in Vietnamese as Tăng Tuyết Minh, was a Chinese midwife.She was a Catholic from Guangzhou and it was claimed that she married Nguyễn Ái Quốc (a pseudonym used by Vietnamese communist leader Hồ Chí Minh) in October 1926.
Era name Full name Reign Lê Đại Hành (黎大行) Thiên Phúc (天福) Hưng Thống (興統) (989–993) Ứng Thiên (應天) (994–1005) Lê Hoàn (黎桓) 980–1005 Lê Trung Tông (黎中宗) No image: none: Lê Long Việt (黎龍鉞) 1005 (3 days) Lê Ngoạ Triều (黎臥朝) Cảnh Thụy (景瑞) (1008–1009) Lê Long Đĩnh ...
Ba Chúc is a town (thị trấn) of the Tri Tôn District of An Giang Province in Mekong Delta of Vietnam.. During the Vietnam War, the village came to the attention of American publics when it was revealed in The New York Times that civilians there had been forced by ARVN officers and their American advisers to remove landmines planted by Viet Cong and NVA units.
The Huế massacre (Vietnamese: Thảm sát tại Huế Tết Mậu Thân, or Thảm sát Tết Mậu Thân ở Huế, lit. translation: "Tết Offensive massacre in Huế") was the summary executions and mass murder perpetrated by the Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during their capture, military occupation and later withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tet Offensive ...