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Binh Hoa Massacre | |
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Location | Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam |
Date | December 6, 1966 |
Target | Bình Hòa villagers |
Attack type | Massacre |
Deaths | 422 [1]–430 [2] |
Perpetrators | South Korean forces |
The Bình Hòa Massacre, ( Vietnamese: thảm sát Bình Hoà, Korean: 빈호아 학살) was a massacre purportedly conducted by South Korean forces between December 3 and December 6, 1966, of 430 unarmed civilians in Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province in South Vietnam. [1] [3] In 2000, however, it was reported that a monument within the village, gave the dates of the massacre as October 22, 24, and 26, 1966 and said that 403 people were killed by the South Koreans. [4]
The district was in the operational area of the Blue Dragon Brigade. [5] Most of the victims were children, elderly and women. [6] More than half the victims were women (including seven who were pregnant) and 166 children. [1] [7] The South Korean soldiers burnt down all of the houses and killed hundreds of cows and buffalo after the atrocities. [1] A number of the survivors of the massacre joined the Viet Cong and fought against the United States and its Allies, one of which was South Korea. [1] [8] South Korean forces were also accused of conducting a similar massacre in Binh Tai village within the same year. [9] [10]
The massacre was discussed when British journalist Justin Wintle visited Vietnam in the late 1980s, where the report on the massacre was disclosed to Western media. [8]: 12
The Binh Hoa massacre was featured in a Korean documentary The Last Lullaby on the subject of Korean atrocities in South Vietnam. [11]