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Vietnam war (1962-1975) > Mỹ Lai massacre    March 16, 1968

 

 

 

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My Lai Massacre

March 16 1968

 

Photograph: Ronald Haeberle

TIME LIFE PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES

 

PICTURES WITH MEANING

Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner

The Guardian Weekend

1 April 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Description:

Unidentified Vietnamese man and child

killed by US soldiers

 

Source:

Report of Army review into My Lai incident,

book 6, 14 March 1970

http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/RDAR-Vol-IIIBook6.pdf

March 16, 1968

 

Photograph: Ronald L. Haeberle

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Deadmanandchild.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ernest Lou Medina    1936-2018

 

Army captain

who was accused

of overall responsibility

for the March 1968

mass killings

of unarmed

South Vietnamese

men, women and children

by troops he commanded

in what became known

as the My Lai massacre,

but was acquitted

at a court-martial

 

(...)

 

On March 16, 1968,

a month and a half

after North Vietnamese

and Vietcong forces

launched

the Tet offensive,

wide-ranging attacks

that stunned

the American

military command

in the Vietnam War,

Captain Medina

and the three platoons

of his infantry company

entered

the village of My Lai

in South Vietnam’s

south central coast

region.

 

What happened

over the hours

that followed

became one

of darkest chapters

of American military

history.

 

An Army inquiry

ultimately determined

that 347 civilians

were killed that day

— shot, bayoneted

or blasted

with grenades.

 

A Vietnamese memorial

erected at the site

has put the toll at 504.

 

But the mass killings

were not exposed

until November 1969,

when the independent

journalist

Seymour Hersh,

tipped off

to the atrocity,

wrote of it

in a series of articles

that brought him

a Pulitzer Prize

for international reporting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/
obituaries/ernest-medina-dies-my-lai-massacre.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/
obituaries/ernest-medina-dies-my-lai-massacre.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lawrence Manley Colburn    1949-2016

 

Larry Colburn

(...)

intervened

with two comrades

to halt the massacre

of unarmed

Vietnamese civilians

by United States soldiers

in 1968

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/asia/larry-colburn-my-lai-massacre-dies.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/asia/
larry-colburn-my-lai-massacre-dies.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 16, 1968

 

Mi Lai carnage / massacre

 

More than 500 civilians

die in My Lai massacre.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1026782.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 16, 1968

 

My Lai massacre

 

The Mỹ Lai Massacre

was the Vietnam War

mass murder of unarmed

South Vietnamese civilians

by U.S. troops

in Sơn Tịnh District,

South Vietnam,

on 16 March 1968.

 

Between 347 and 504

unarmed people

were killed

by U.S. Army soldiers

from Company C,

1st Battalion,

20th Infantry Regiment

and Company B,

4th Battalion,

3rd Infantry Regiment,

11th Brigade,

23rd (Americal) Infantry Division.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

 

 

https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/Peers_inquiry.html

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/10/
seymour-hersh-reporter-a-memoir-book-review

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/
obituaries/ernest-medina-dies-my-lai-massacre.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/17/
593992434/50-years-after-the-my-lai-massacre-an-opera-confronts-the-past

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/16/
594364462/my-lai-massacre-of-1968-continues-to-resonate-in-america

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/
opinion/the-truth-behind-my-lai.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/asia/
larry-colburn-my-lai-massacre-dies.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/us/
robert-maccrate-lawyer-in-my-lai-inquiry-dies-at-94.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/jun/06/
archive-my-lai-leak-1972

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/us/23mylai.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/opinion/28fri3.html

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=112157020
- August 23, 2009

 

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/
an-apology-for-my-lai-four-decades-later/

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=5133444 - June 6, 2006

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jun/02/
theuntaughtlessonsofmylai

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=5134304 - January 7, 2006

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8215556.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/weekinreview/17liptak.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7298533.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4589486.stm

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/03/98/mylai/64344.stm

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5133444 

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1971/mar/30/fromthearchive 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/mylai.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/my_lai.html 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/29/newsid_2530000/2530975.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1026782.stm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/mylai-massacre/2/

 

http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/RDAR-Vol-IIIBook6.pdf - 14 March 1970

 

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0316.html#article

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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