2009/01/04

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Revisiting the My Lai massacre

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Revisiting the My Lai massacre

Pham Thi Tuan says she lay motionless among dead bodies for hours in the ditch where she and her baby daughter had been herded with more than 100 other people.


It was only the corpse of her father that prevented her from being killed on March 16, 1968 in what gained universal notoriety as the My Lai massacre.


Now 75, Pham is one of the few remaining survivors of the atrocities that saw US soldiers from Charlie Company chopper in to the tiny hamlet in central Vietnam and spend the next four hours killing and maiming up to 500 innocent Vietnamese, many of them women and children.




"They ordered all of the families to sit or stand in the ditch. Then they shot," she says. "After five minutes they shot the second time. If they heard weeping they shot a third time.


"I cannot forget it as long as I live. I even remember the shooting of my people in the ditch in my dreams."


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