South Korea Starts to Come to Terms with Vietnam War Crimes
Court orders payment to single victim of massacre
By: Shim Jae Hoon
One February morning in 1968, a company of South Korean marines stormed Phong Nhi village in central Vietnam, searching for Viet Cong guerrillas from whom they thought they had taken fire. After lining up frightened villagers into three separate groups, the marines shot them down, killing 74 innocent villagers.
One survivor who was left …
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