Burn incense at the memorial to the victims of the massacre in Vietnam.
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Burn incense at the memorial to the victims of the massacre in Vietnam.
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SEOUL — A South Korean court has ordered the government to compensate survivors of a massacre perpetrated by the South Korean military in the past year. Viet Nam’s war. This is the first time a court has found the South Vietnamese government responsible for such atrocities.
Nguyen Thi Thanh was 7 years old in 1968 when she said South Korean marines killed five of her family and shot her in the stomach.
According to US military documents and survivors, the Marines killed more than 70 civilians and wounded 20 in two villages in Quang Nam province.
This happened a few weeks ago The My Lai massacre was committed by the US militaryfurther south.
Nguyen Thi Thanh sued the Korean government in 2020 for nearly 24,000 USD. The court rejected the government’s argument that Viet Cong guerrillas was mixed with the locals.
South Korea sent more than 300,000 troops to Vietnam, the largest number of any US ally.
This originally appeared in the NPR Newsletter.
