My Lai

American  

[mee lahy] / ˈmi ˈlaɪ /

noun

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

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My Lai British  

/ ˈmaɪ ˈlaɪ, ˈmiː /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

“Cover-Up,” directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus, focuses on the career of a single investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, whose decades of exposés include his 1969 report on the My Lai massacre and his discovery of the American torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

From Los Angeles Times

The film offers an example in detailing how Hersh fought to get his breakthrough My Lai story into print.

From Los Angeles Times

But as directors Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus tell us in their utterly absorbing movie, the same attention to clandestine detail had been true about Mr. Hersh’s investigations of the My Lai massacre, CIA domestic spying, abuse at Abu Ghraib and the killing of Osama bin Laden.

From The Wall Street Journal

“There had to be more,” Mr. Hersh says, specifically about My Lai.

From The Wall Street Journal

This includes extensive journeys into archival footage from the late-’60s My Lai era, James Jesus Angleton’s 1970s congressional testimony about CIA misdeeds, the tangential people through whom he traced the evidence of the Abu Ghraib scandal and how he located the photographs—without which, he says, there would have been no story.

From The Wall Street Journal