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MY LAI CRIMEN DE GUERRA

The My Lai massacre was a war crime committed by United
States Army personnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass
murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South

Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.

Between 347 and 504 civilians were killed by U.S. soldiers from
Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and

Company B, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th
Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Victims included
men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women

were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers
mutilated and raped children as young as 12. It constituted the

largest attack on civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century