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> 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
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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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