Surviving The My Lai Massacre

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

US troops went on the rampage through a Vietnamese village in March 1968, killing men, women and children in cold blood. 11-year old Pham Thanh Cong survived, but the rest of his family was killed. In 2012 he spoke to Neal Razzell about his memories of the bloodbath.

Photo: Pham Thanh Cong now.

Credit Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images.

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1:09.3	Service I'm Neil Riselle today we're going back to March 1968 to a village in Vietnam and the story of what's been called the worst atrocity in American military history.
1:21.0	For the people of Milai, the first sound of trouble came early.
1:25.2	Suddenly at 6 a.m. the morning of the 16th of March 1968, mortars of the American and South Vietnamese
1:36.7	forces started to fire on my village.
1:39.8	Pam Tancong was 11 years old.
1:42.3	The Vietnam War between the Communist North and the American backed South was reaching a peak.
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