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Seppuku, the traditional Japanese method of ritual suicide, was, in many cases, carried out as consensual homicide. After the samurai slices into his own stomach with a sword, his assistant, the kaishakunin , is tasked with immediately carrying out a mercy kill —typically by beheading —as, without the assistant's presence, the process would ...
Son Thang, South Vietnam 16 killed U.S. Marine Corps: Thạnh Mỹ massacre: June 11, 1970 Thạnh Mỹ Village, Quế Sơn District, Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam 78 Viet Cong: Đức Dục. massacre. March 29, 1971 Đức Dục District, Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam 103 Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam: Shelling of Highway 1
The Đức Dục Massacre was a massacre of South Vietnamese civilians committed by the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) during the Vietnam War, in Đức Dục District, (now Duy Phú commune, Duy Xuyên District) Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam on 29 March 1971.
Murder, kidnapping, torture and intimidation were a routine part of Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) operations during the Vietnam War.They were intended to liquidate opponents such as officials, leaders, military personnel, civilians who collaborated with the South Vietnamese government, erode the morale of South Vietnamese government employees, cow the populace and boost ...
Thu Duc is a class-1 city of Ho Chi Minh City and the first city to use city-within-city model in Vietnam. [12] [13]Thủ Đức City has 34 wards: An Khánh, An Lợi Đông, An Phú, Bình Chiểu, Bình Thọ, Bình Trưng Đông, Bình Trưng Tây, Cát Lái, Hiệp Bình Chánh, Hiệp Bình Phước, Hiệp Phú, Linh Chiểu, Linh Đông, Linh Tây, Linh Trung, Linh Xuân, Long Bình ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Vietnam for a variety of crimes. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [ 1 ] gives Vietnam a score of 4.4 out of 10 on the right to freedom from the death penalty, based on responses from human rights experts in the country. [ 2 ]
On 12 February, a VC ambush had killed nine Marines from Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines. [2]: 345 A five-man Marine "hunter-killer" patrol led by Lance Corporal Randell D. Herrod, who had been in the country for seven months, alongside Private Thomas R. Boyd Jr., PFC Samuel G. Green, PFC Michael A. Schwarz and Lance Corporal Michael S. Krichten had been in Vietnam for only a month, was ...
He was a supporter of the Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng (DVQDD, Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam), a Roman Catholic political movement. [ 1 ] Đức joined the French-backed Vietnamese National Army , which became the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) after the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) was established.