Bình Hòa massacre

Binh Hoa Massacre

Quảng Ngãi Province
Location Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam
Date December 6, 1966
Target Bình Hòa villagers
Attack type
 Massacre
Deaths 422[1] - 430[2]
Perpetrators South Korean forces
Memorial of Binh Hoa Massacre

The Bình Hòa Massacre was a massacre 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.[1][3][4] 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. [5]

The district was in the operational area of the Blue Dragon Brigade.[6] Most of the victims were children, elderly and women.[4] The victims included 21 pregnant women.[1] The South Korean soldiers burnt down all of the houses and killed hundreds of cows and buffalo after the atrocities.[1] Then the survivors joined the Viet Cong and fought against the United States and its Allies, one of which was South Korea.[1] [7] The South Korean forces are accused of conducting a similar massacre in Binh Tai village within the same year.[8][9]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "On War extra - Vietnam's massacre survivors". Al Jazeera. 2009-01-04. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Sở văn hóa thông tin tỉnh Quảng Ngãi". Quảng Ngãi government. Archived from the original on April 30, 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
  3. ↑ Wintle, Justin (2006). Romancing Vietnam: inside the boat country. Signal Books Ltd. p. 266. ISBN 1-904955-15-0.
  4. 1 2 "Bình Hòa Massacre". Quảng Ngãi government. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
  5. ↑ "Villagers recall S. Korean atrocities in Viet War; Troops massacred 1,600 civilians in all, survivors say", by Paul Alexander, Associated Press, in Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT), April 9, 2000
  6. ↑ "<8> 신화를 남긴 해병대 '짜빈동 전투' 고립된 1개 중대가 연대 규모 적 무찌르다". 국방일보. 2011-02-15. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
  7. ↑ Oliver, p.11
  8. ↑ "Words of Condemnation and Drinks of Reconciliation Massacre in Vin Dinh Province All 380 People Turned into Dead Bodies Within an Hour.". Hankyoreh. 1999-09-02. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
  9. ↑ Armstrong, Charles (2001). Critical Asian Studies, Volume 33, Issue 4 :America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam. Routledge. p. 530.

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