My Lai

[mee lahy]

noun

1. a hamlet in S Vietnam: U.S. forces' massacre of South Vietnamese civilians 1968.

My Lai

/ ˈmaɪ ˈlaɪ, ˈmiː /

noun

1. a village in S Vietnam where in 1968 US troops massacred over 400 civilians

Example Sentences

Describing the disgraceful order a U.S. general gave to “kill and burn” indiscriminately on the Philippine island of Samar, Mr. Jackson says it paved the way for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

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As one of America’s most relentless investigative reporters, he exposed the 1968 massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians — including children and babies — by U.S. troops at My Lai; revealed the Nixon administration’s secret bombing of Cambodia and illegal wiretaps during Watergate; uncovered the CIA’s domestic spying and mind-control programs; and brought to light the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

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During the investigation into the My Lai atrocities, Hersh recalls, his wife, Elizabeth — a psychoanalyst to whom he’s been married for more than 60 years — helped keep him from breaking down.

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“Cover-Up” was, for me, the antidote: a furious, hard-nosed profile of legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who broke the My Lai massacre in 1969, then went on to an impressive run of stories that included revelations about Watergate, the CIA and Abu Ghraib.

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Indeed, the newspaper report shown in Turning Point alleging the use of “baby killers” and “murderers” was published years after the war, and the poster can only qualify as evidence of the charge if one assumes that denouncing the massacre at My Lai is the same thing as calling a returning veteran a “baby killer.”

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