Secret documents support Vietnam massacre claims

FOR almost 40 years, Jamie Henry’s account of how members of his company had gunned down 19 Vietnamese villagers was dismissed by the military establishment and his fight for justice ignored.

Secret documents support Vietnam massacre claims

But now top secret Pentagon documents have come to light which show that senior officials knew that he — and other soldiers who had spoken out against US army atrocities and suffered a sustained campaign of vilification as a result — were telling the truth.

The archive, which was assembled by a task force, confirmed that US troops had carried out far more massacres than had previously been suspected.

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