(VOV) – The 46th anniversary of the Son My massacre (1968-2013) was commemorated at the Son My relics site in the central province of Quang Ngai on March 16.
Cao Van Chu, Vice Director of the Quang Ngai provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, recalled the savage US war crimes against Vietnamese people.
On March 16, 1968, US troops killed 504 unarmed citizens in Tinh Khe commune, mostly elderly, women and children. Hundreds of local houses, stocks of food and herds of cattle and poultry were set alight and destroyed.
Since then, every year on the anniversary of that fateful day the people in Son My, Vietnam and the wider world recall the tragic events that took place.
Unfortunately Son My was not the sole massacre it was one of many showing the US soldiers’ barbaric crimes against the ordinary people of Vietnam, particularly the Quang Ngai people, during the war.
However, Son My has been regenerating strongly over the years as local people have spared no efforts to overcome the harrowing consequences of war to push socio-economic development as contribution to building their homeland in to a more beautiful and prosperous place.
Participants offered incense to innocent victims and listened to Mike Boehm, a US war veteran, managing director of Madison Quakers Organisation, playing “The sound of the violin in My Lai” to pray for the souls of 504 victims.
Billy Kelly, another US veteran, sent 504 roses to commemorate the innocent victims. Over the past 20 years, he has devoted much of his time to paying tributes to the victims and survivors of My Son.
After the ceremony, Madison Quakers in coordination with Son Tinh district’s Red Cross granted scholarships worth VND1 million each to 36 disadvantaged pupils of Tinh Khe Primary School.
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