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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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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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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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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Killings to the 1968 My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, with some commentators describing it as "Bush's My Lai", or "Iraq's My Lai". Very often, 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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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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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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Varnado Simpson (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
1948 – May 4, 1997) was an 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Samuel W. Koster (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
retiring as a result of his efforts to minimize the details of the My Lai Massacre. Koster was born in West Liberty, Iowa on December 29, 1919, and graduated...
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forgotten. In 1969, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre in print, and the Haeberle photos were released to the world media...
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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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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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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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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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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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20th Infantry Regiment (United States) (category Mỹ Lai massacre)
During the Vietnam War, elements of the regiment carried out the My Lai massacre. The regiment was organized on 6 June 1862 at Fort Independence (Massachusetts)...
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Interviews with My Lai Veterans is a 1970 American short documentary film directed by Joseph Strick featuring firsthand accounts of the My Lai Massacre. It won...
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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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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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