Taking Back Our Stolen History
My Lai Massacre
My Lai Massacre

My Lai Massacre

The mass murder of 504 unarmed citizens of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) as part of the much larger Phoenix Program. They were almost entirely civilians, the majority of them women and children. The massacre was conducted by U.S. Army forces on March 16, 1968. Before being killed some of the victims were raped and sexually molested, beaten, tortured, or maimed. Some of the dead bodies were also mutilated. Although there was a serious attempt to cover-up this operation (which involved a young US Army Major named Colin Powell), those who orchestrated or participated in this “business-as-usual” war zone atrocity did not deny the details of the slaughter when the case came to trial several years later. Continue Reading…