My Lai massacre

Cultural  

1. A mass killing of helpless inhabitants of a village in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, carried out in 1968 by United States troops under the command of Lieutenant William Calley. Calley was court-martialed and sentenced to life imprisonment, but he only served a few years before parole. The massacre, horrible in itself, became a symbol (see also symbol) for those opposed to the war in Vietnam.

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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

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

“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.

From Los Angeles Times

A former US officer who was the only person to be convicted in connection with the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War has died, according to reports.

From BBC

Facing History curriculum has also sought over the years to relate themes drawn from the study of the Holocaust to topics including the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II and the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

From Washington Post