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VN commemorates victims of My Lai Massacre

VGP – A ceremony was held in Quang Ngai province on Friday to commemorate victims of the My Lai Massacre.

March 16, 2018 7:24 PM GMT+7

Former State President Truong Tan Sang and Permanent Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh see one of the pictures of the My Lai massacre at the Son My memorial site. Photo: VGP.

Permanent Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh, former State President Truong Tan Sang, leaders of central ministries, agencies and Quang Ngai, hundreds of locals and foreigners attended the event.

In his opening remarks, Vice Chairman of the Quang Ngai provincial People’s Committee Dang Ngoc Dung recalled that 504 in Son My, most of them women and children, were brutally killed in the morning of March 16, 1968. Since then Son My becomes inconsolable pain of all Vietnamese.

Dung said the My Lai massacre was a typical case of "cruel crimes committed by aggressive and hostile forces" during the war.

Right at that time, international media compared the massacre with other panic-striken cases, including one in Hiroshima.

The My Lai Massacre was then disclosed by reporters and American veterans like Ronand Ridenhour, Seymour Hersh, Henry Kamm, and thousands of other people across the world.

It was until November 1969, the massacre was disclosed on US news agencies like Time and  Newsweek./.

By Quang Minh