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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]
The Sơn Mỹ Memorial (Di tích Sơn Mỹ) is a memorial to victims of the My Lai Massacre, which took place on 16 March 1968 in Son My, Vietnam.This was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1]
William Laws Calley Jr. (June 8, 1943 – April 28, 2024) was a United States Army officer convicted by court-martial of the murder of 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. Calley was released to house arrest under orders by President Richard Nixon three days after his conviction.
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 ...
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.
It wasn’t until more than a year later that news of the massacre became public. And while My Lai was the most notorious massacre in modern U.S. military history, it was not an aberration: Estimates of civilians killed during the U.S. ground war in Vietnam from 1965 to 1973 range from 1 million to 2 million.
By James Pearson QUANG NGAI, Vietnam (Reuters) - Vietnam marked 50 years since the My Lai massacre on Friday in a memorial ceremony at the site of the killings that was attended by survivors of ...
The Art Workers Coalition poster And Babies connected the My Lai massacre with anti-war sentiment [1] And babies (December 26, 1969 [ 2 ] ) is an iconic anti-Vietnam War poster . [ 1 ] It is a famous example of "propaganda art" from the Vietnam War , [ 3 ] that uses a color photograph of the My Lai Massacre taken by U.S. combat photographer ...