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At the My Lai museum outside Da Nang in Vietnam — formally known as the Son My War Remnant Site — a marble plaque lists 504 victims by name. Of the 273 women killed, 17 were pregnant.
The My Lai massacre (/ m iː l aɪ / MEE LY; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1]
With the courts martial for the My Lai Massacre making front-page news, and the recent disclosure by members of the Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program of its record of human rights violations in Vietnam, the VVAW was determined to expose a broad pattern of war crimes in Vietnam. The Winter Soldier Investigation (WSI) was intended to ...
Google News Archive is an extension of Google News providing free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Some of the news archives date back to 18th century. There is a timeline view available, to select news from various years.
William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American ...
The New York Times, citing Social Security Administration death records, also reported Calley's death. Calls to numbers listed for Calley's son, William L. Calley III, were not returned. American ...
Dispatch News Service International (DNSI) was an alternative news agency that operated from 1968 to 1973. Initially focusing on in-depth reporting on the Vietnam War, DNS as it was commonly known, established its main operations in Saigon, South Vietnam. Reporters traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, reporting from various capitals ...
Hà My massacre (disputed) February 25, 1968 Hà Mỹ village, Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam 135 Republic of Korea Armed Forces: My Lai Massacre: March 16, 1968 Mỹ Lai and My Khê hamlets, Sơn Mỹ, Quảng Ngãi, South Vietnam 504 U.S. Army: Son Tra massacre: June 28/9, 1968 Sơn Trà, Bình Sơn District, Quảng Ngãi, South Vietnam ...