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The Bình Hòa Massacre was a
Korea's "Vietnam Question": War Atrocities, National Identity, and Reconciliation.
''Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique'', Volume 9, Number 3, Winter 2001, p. 622-635. E-ISSN 1527-8271
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The Bình Hòa Massacre was a massacre
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people or animals, especially those who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves. A massacre is generally considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when per ...
purportedly conducted by South Korean forces between December 3 and December 6, 1966, of 430 unarmed citizens in Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province in South Vietnam. In 2000, however, it was reported that a monument within the village, gave the dates of the massacre as October 22, 24, and 26, 1966 and said that 403 people were killed by the South Koreans.
The district was in the operational area of the Blue Dragon Brigade. Most of the victims were children, elderly and women. More than half the victims were women (including seven who were pregnant) and 166 children. The South Korean soldiers burnt down all of the houses and killed hundreds of cows and buffalo after the atrocities. A number of the survivors of the massacre joined the Viet Cong
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and fought against the United States and its Allies, one of which was South Korea. South Korean forces were also accused of conducting a similar massacre in Binh Tai village within the same year.
The massacre was discussed when British journalist Justin Wintle visited Vietnam in the late 1980s, where the report on the massacre was disclosed to Western media.
In popular culture
The Binh Hoa massacre was featured in a Korean documentary ''The Last Lullaby'' on the subject of Korean war crimes in South Vietnam.See also
*List of massacres in Vietnam
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*Military history of South Korea during the Vietnam War
The South Korean government, under the regime of Park Chung-hee, took an active role in the Vietnam War. From September 1964 to March 1973, South Korea sent some 350,000 troops to South Vietnam. The South Korean Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Ai ...
*War Remnants Museum
The War Remnants Museum ( vi, Bảo tàng chứng tích chiến tranh) is a war museum at 28 Vo Van Tan, in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam. It contains exhibits relating to the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War.
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Further reading
* Kim, Hyun Sook LeeKorea's "Vietnam Question": War Atrocities, National Identity, and Reconciliation.
''Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique'', Volume 9, Number 3, Winter 2001, p. 622-635. E-ISSN 1527-8271
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