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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: My Lai Massacre

My Lai Massacre stories: 3 news summaries

Gitmo Defendants Given
My Lai Massacre Film

Trials of 9/11 accused delayed for another 60 days

(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of planning the 9/11 attacks asked for and were given copies of a film about the My Lai massacre, Reuters reports. The Guantanamo war crimes court was told during a hearing yesterday that Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley, a 1975 courtroom drama about... More »

(Newser) - Forty years after the infamous My Lai massacre came to light, the former Army officer who led the raid has for the first time spoken publicly about his actions. William Calley, who ordered his soldiers to gun down hundreds of civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai in 1968,... More »

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 My Lai Massacre, 40 Years On  

Survivors, vets among 1,000 who gather in Vietnam to remember

(Newser) - More than 1,000 people gathered in My Lai today to mark the 40th anniversary of one of the most brutal chapters in the Vietnam War, the AP reports. Forty years ago, American troops entered the small village in search of Vietcong guerrillas and, unprovoked, slaughtered more than 500 people—... More »

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