From Wikipedia: The My Lai Massacre (Vietnamese: th?m sát M? Lai [t????m ????t m?? l??j]; English pronunciation: /?mi??la?/ ( listen), also /?mi??le?, ?ma??la?/,[1] Vietnamese: [m??l??j]) was the mass murder of 347–504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, conducted by "Charlie" company, 1st battalion, 20th infantry, 11th infantry brigade, of the Americal Division, United States Army. All of the victims were civilians and most were women, children (including babies), and elderly people. Many of the victims were raped, beaten, tortured, and some of the bodies were found mutilated.[2] The massacre took place in the hamlets of M? Lai and My Khe of S?n M? village during the Vietnam War.[3][4] While 26 US soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at M? Lai, only 2nd Lt. William Calley, a platoon leader in charlie company, was convicted of killing 22 villagers. Originally given a life sentence, he served three and a half years under house arrest. When the incident became public knowledge in 1969, it prompted widespread outrage around the world. The massacre also increased domestic opposition to the US involvement in the Vietnam War. Three US servicemen who made an effort to halt the massacre and protect the wounded were later denounced by US Congressmen. They received hate mail, death threats and found mutilated animals on their doorsteps.[5] It would take 30 years before they were honored for their efforts.[6] The massacre is also known as the 'S?n M? Massacre' (Vietnamese: th?m sát S?n M?) or sometimes as the 'Song M? Massacre.'[7] The US military codeword for the hamlet was Pinkville.[8]"   If you only type in My Lai into google search, you'll also get a bunch of right-wing horse-shit like "Lt Calley was framed" and the chorus that any VietNamese killed in the war were Unlawful Combatants. I used to hear that crap all the time because I lived very near Ft Bliss. I don't speak much Annamese, the official language of both VietNams, More people spoke French than Annamese anyway. The one word I recognized in that whole descriptor was "sát" which means "kill". VietNam is one of the Disunited Nations hacked together to please the European and American and Australian colonialists who claim hegemony over Asia. The non-Annamese tribal people are described by the French term "montagnard" which literally means hillbilly. Much like the terms "pagan" and "heathen" are a Greek and a Gaelic word meaning "somebody who lives so far out in the tall weeds that he's beyond the bounds of civilization" The old French word for that is "peasant" and most of the latin languages use the word "paisano", literally somebody who is property of the aristocracy and bought or inherited or conquered along with the land and animals, domesticated or wild. The Scots have an ongoing war between the gamekeepers and the poachers, poachers meaning anybody who isn't the landlord who kills a wild animal bird or fish. All the fish in the streams, etc... belong to the English appointed nobility. Every tree in the National Forest here belongs