The My Lai massacre (/miː laɪ/ mee ly; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ) was a war crime committed by the United States Army on 16 March...
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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...
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William Calley (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
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...
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Lawrence Colburn (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
helicopter gunner in the Vietnam War, intervened in the March 16, 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre. Born in Coulee Dam, Washington, Colburn grew up in Mount Vernon, with...
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Ronald L. Haeberle (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
the photographs he took of the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968. The photographs were definitive evidence of a massacre, making it impossible for the...
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My Lai is a documentary film detailing the My Lai massacre. It aired as an episode of American Experience on PBS. The documentary details the 1968 My...
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Hugh Thompson Jr. (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
Infantry Division. He is credited with ending the Mỹ Lai Massacre of the South Vietnamese village known as Sơn Mỹ on March 16, 1968, alongside Glenn Andreotta...
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the 1968 My Lai massacre of 504 villagers during the Vietnam War, with some commentators describing it as "Bush's My Lai", or "Iraq's My Lai". Very often...
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Glenn Andreotta (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
the Vietnam War noted for being one of three who intervened in the Mỹ Lai massacre, in which 504 unarmed children, women and men were murdered. Glenn...
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stomachs slit open. The Amrita Bazar Patrika described the Mandwi massacre as My Lai massacre put into shade. According to Major R. Rajamani, the commander...
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Hale described the massacre as "Britain's My Lai" in his book titled Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britain's My Lai. The massacre was one of a number...
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Varnado Simpson (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
1948 – May 4, 1997) was a U.S. Army soldier who participated in the My Lai Massacre, torturing, murdering, and mutilating multiple South Vietnamese civilians...
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Ronald Ridenhour (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
played a central role in spurring the federal investigation of the 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre in Vietnam. When he first learned of events there, he was serving in...
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the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, and U.S. war crimes such as the My Lai massacre. In 1968, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong launched the Tet Offensive...
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Oran Henderson (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
Management Agency in the late 1970s. He is most famous for his role in the My Lai massacre where he served as brigade commander for the units involved in the...
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Ernest Medina (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
the unit responsible for the My Lai massacre of 16 March 1968. He was court-martialed in 1971 for his role in that massacre, but acquitted the same year...
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Hours in My Lai is a 1989 television documentary written and directed by Kevin Sim for Yorkshire Television concerning the 1968 My Lai Massacre by the U...
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Superior orders (section 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre)
the Mỹ Lai massacre in 1968, the defense was employed during the court martial of William Calley. Some have argued that the outcome of the Mỹ Lai trial...
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revelations of the My Lai massacre had plunged the nation into gnawing self-doubt. Here was a book filled with a hundred My Lais, a book that explored...
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Seymour Hersh (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the...
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United States war crimes (section My Lai Massacre)
some of the bodies were found mutilated. The massacre took place in the hamlets of Mỹ Lai and My Khe of Sơn Mỹ village during the Vietnam War. Of the 26...
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And babies (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
"propaganda art" from the Vietnam War, that uses a color photograph of the My Lai Massacre taken by U.S. combat photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968...
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Woody Hayes (section Comments on the My Lai Massacre)
1969, Hayes spoke about the recently revealed My Lai Massacre. He stated that the Vietnamese men in My Lai deserved to die, "and I wouldn't be so sure those...
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Colin Powell (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
[sic] looked on and did nothing to stop the massacre. An estimated 350 to 500 unarmed civilians died in My Lai ... MAJ Colin Powell, a recently assigned...
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1968, Rivers condemned American servicemen who attempted to stop the My Lai massacre, labeling them as "traitors". Rivers served in the House until his...
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William R. Peers (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
notable for presiding over the Peers Commission investigation into the Mỹ Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. Peers, often referred to by his middle name...
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supported the war without showing it. But revelations of the 1968 My Lai Massacre,: 518–521 in which a US Army unit under Captain Ernest Medina raped...
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deliberately targeted or killed, the most prominent being the Huế Massacre and the Mỹ Lai Massacre. Estimates of the total number of deaths in the Vietnam War...
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officials that the number of deaths was higher than the 504 killed in Mỹ Lai massacre according to Vietnamese statistics [verification needed] After the...
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Americal Division (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
participation in numerous battles and campaigns but was marred by the My Lai massacre, which was committed by a platoon of the division's subordinate 11th...
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