South Korea should pay compensation to Vietnam bloodbath survivors: NPR

Incense sticks on the monument to the victims of the bloodbath in Vietnam.

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Incense sticks on the monument to the victims of the bloodbath in Vietnam.

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SEOUL — A South Korean court docket has ordered the federal government to pay compensation to survivors of a bloodbath by South Korean troops throughout the Vietnam Struggle. For the primary time, the Courtroom held the federal government of the South liable for such atrocities.

Nguyen Thi Thanh was 7 years previous in 1968 when she stated South Korean marines killed 5 members of her household and shot her within the abdomen.

Marines killed greater than 70 civilians and wounded 20 in two villages in Quang Nam province, based on US army paperwork and survivors.

This occurred just a few weeks earlier than the My Lai bloodbath by American forces additional south.

In 2020, Nguyen Thi Thanh sued the South Korean authorities for practically $24,000. The court docket rejected the federal government’s argument that the Viet Cong guerrillas had combined with the locals.

South Korea has despatched greater than 300,000 troops to fight in Vietnam, the most important deployment of any US ally.

It initially appeared on an NPR newscast.