A war crime covered up for over a year. The My Lai Massacre exposed the brutal realities of war and changed how Americans ...

Captain Ernest Medina had told his men that all Vietnamese remaining in My Lai after their arrival would be Viet Cong members or sympathizers. Following the massacre, during which between 347 and ...

in an incident known in the West as the My Lai Massacre. The killings shocked the US and galvanised the anti-war movement.

Helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson speaks with reporters at the Pentagon on Dec. 4, 1969, after testifying about the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam. AP Everybody's heard of the My Lai massacre ...

Only in the last few days has it been brought home to people that the massacre at Son My is not an isolated incident but simply a brazen variation on a regular policy of modern war. In spite of ...

Protesters carrying photos of Lieutenant Calley, a US military officer, who was later convicted for his role in the My Lai massacre. Photographer Arthur Gatti says "it was their way of commemorating ...

The American reaction to hearing of the horror of the Son My massacre (My Lai) in Vietnam, and parallels with Hiroshima and the Allied devastation of Dresden. Mike Thomson investigates the ...

There was nothing exceptional about My Lai. In the words of Ron Ridenhour, the former helicopter door-gunner who did more than anyone to expose that particular massacre, it “was an operation ...

As the gruesome details of My Lai reached the American public, serious questions arose concerning the conduct of American soldiers in Vietnam. A military commission investigating the massacre ...