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My Lai Massacre: The Vietnam War Atrocity That Shocked the World
The My Lai Massacre remains one of the most infamous atrocities of the Vietnam War, when U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in a South Vietnamese village.
On March 16, 1968, in Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam, soldiers of Charlie Company, 11th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division entered the village of My Lai expecting to confront Viet Cong fighters. Instead, they encountered unarmed civilians—women, children, and elderly men. What followed became one of the darkest chapters of the Vietnam War: the My Lai Massacre.
Over the course of several hours, U.S. troops systematically…
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