Son My massacre commemorated in Quang Ngai

(Bqp.vn) - The 46th anniversary of the Son My massacre (1968-2013) was commemorated at the Son My relics site in the central province of Quang Ngai on March 16.

At Son My relic site. (Photo: Thanh Long)

Cao Van Chu, Vice Director of the Quang Ngai provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, recalled the savage US war crimes against Vietnamese people.

On March 16, 1968, US troops killed 504 unarmed citizens in Tinh Khe commune, mostly elderly, women and children. Hundreds of local houses, stocks of food and herds of cattle and poultry were set alight and destroyed.

Since then, every year on the anniversary of that fateful day the people in Son My, Vietnam and the wider world recall the tragic events that took place.

Unfortunately Son My was not the sole massacre it was one of many showing the US soldiers’ barbaric crimes against the ordinary people of Vietnam, particularly.

Bach Phuong