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    Posted: 16-Mar-2013 at 06:26

Today marks 45years since the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

 I suspect that the actual event is something we should not discuss here.

 However i did wonder about the recent words from David Cameron ( The British  prime minister) when he  laid a wreath at the memorial shrine and   described the  Amritsar massacre in 1919 by "British" troops as "a deeply shameful event in British history".

 What  would be the american public and media response should their president  do the same in Vietnam?

 What do members here think?
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posted by Azita:

" I suspect that the actual event is something we should not discuss here."
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Azita, Except for the racist fringe of the very far American right, I can't think of any Americans who do not view My Lai as a moment of national shame. However, just as in Vietnam, a great many young Americans are no more cognizant of My Lai than their Vietnamese counterparts are in areas outside My Lai itself. And information on the Hue massacres is blocked on internet sites in Vietnam, so barring those knowing enough to try a search on it, the majority of Vietnam's population remains ignorant of that massacre.

However, were an American official visitor to Vietnam to lay a wreath at the site, he or she would be figuratively tramping on the bones of the victims of the Hue massacres of 1968, which is variously estimated between three and five thousand. Those massacres were perpetrated by the NVA and VC as a matter of policy, not a failure of leadership (as was My Lai). And no one was ever charged, much less tried, for them.   


Edited by lirelou - 16-Mar-2013 at 10:18
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Originally posted by lirelou

Azita, Except for the racist fringe of the very far American right, I can't think of any Americans who do not view My Lai as a moment of national shame. However, just as in Vietnam, a great many young Americans are no more cognizant of My Lai than their Vietnamese counterparts are in areas outside My Lai itself. And information on the Hue massacres is blocked on internet sites in Vietnam, so barring those knowing enough to try a search on it, the majority of Vietnam's population remains ignorant of that massacre.

However, were an American official visitor to Vietnam to lay a wreath at the site, he or she would be figuratively tramping on the bones of the victims of the Hue massacres of 1968, which is variously estimated between three and five thousand. Those massacres were perpetrated by the NVA and VC as a matter of policy, not a failure of leadership (as was My Lai). And no one was ever charged, much less tried, for them.   
 
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