Sunday, March 16, 2008

My Lai massacre remembered

And we will collectively forget about the atrocities that continue in the name of Capitalism even to this day! We are surely doomed to repeat history time and again.

My Lai massacre remembered, but others forgotten - Asia-Pacific
Hanoi is staging a weekend-long ceremony to mark the massacres, in which a company of US Army soldiers, unable to find any of the Viet Cong guerrillas they had been ordered to clear from the village, instead killed up to 504 defenceless men, women and children.

But while the massacres at My Lai are recorded in Vietnamese history books, and at the My Lai Museum, most of the atrocities committed during the Vietnam War go largely unremembered.