Date December 6, 1966 Attack type Massacre Perpetrators South Korean forces | Target Bình Hòa villagers Deaths 422 - 430 | |
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Location Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam | ||
The Bình Hòa Massacre was a massacre purportedly conducted by South Korean forces between December 3 and December 6, 1966, of 430 unarmed citizens in Bình Hòa village, Quảng Ngãi Province in South Vietnam. In 2000, however, it was reported that a monument within the village, gave the dates of the massacre as October 22, 24, and 26, 1966 and said that 403 people were killed by the South Koreans.
The district was in the operational area of the Blue Dragon Brigade. Most of the victims were children, elderly and women. The victims included 21 pregnant women. The South Korean soldiers burnt down all of the houses and killed hundreds of cows and buffalo after the atrocities. A number of the survivors of the massacre joined the Viet Cong and fought against the United States and its Allies, one of which was South Korea. The South Korean forces are accused of conducting a similar massacre in Binh Tai village within the same year.