Event: My Lai massacre

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Ghosts of the killing fields: The My Lai massacre 50 years later

The My Lai massacre — the worst American atrocity of the Vietnam War — took place 50 years ago next month on March 16, 1968, although US citizens did not become aware of it until 20 months later when freelance journalist Seymour Hersh provided the first substantial account.

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THE LONG READ: The Edward Snowden movie nobody wanted became film everybody wants to see

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Slow-motion massacre

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Ex-soldier apologises for My Lai massacre

world

Groundbreaking journalist predicts major US-Iran conflict

Bertie paid more than Bush, but both governments hit a new low

Hugh Thompson, My Lai massacre hero, dies

Hugh Thompson, a former US Army helicopter pilot honoured for rescuing Vietnamese civilians from his fellow soldiers during the My Lai massacre, died early yesterday. He was 62.

Sat, 07 Jan, 2006

The self-styled enemies of terror may yet turn out to be its friends

IT IS hard to understand how anybody in his or her right mind could ever try to justify what happened in Beslan last week.

Sat, 11 Sep, 2004

America’s home-grown terrorists haven’t gone away, you know

SEYMOUR HERSCH’S allegations that US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon were behind the decision to abuse the Arab prisoners sexually so that they would talk must be taken seriously.

Sat, 22 May, 2004

Danger lurks everywhere in the strange world of Michael McDowell

“A CROWD of us were going along the Shepherd’s Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home,” Michael Collins once recalled.

Sat, 10 Apr, 2004