Date 9 October 1966 Attack type Massacre Perpetrators South Korean Forces | Target Binh Tai villagers Deaths 168 | |
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Location Binh Tai village, South Vietnam | ||
The Bình Tai Massacre was a massacre perpetrated by South Korean Forces on 9 October 1966 of 168 citizens in Binh Tai village in South Vietnam.
Investigation
The Hankyoreh Sinmun investigated war crimes in Vietnam and revealed other atrocities.
Colonel Kim Ki-tae, former commander of the Seventh Company, 2nd Marine Division of the ROK Marines, confessed to Hankyoreh that on 9 October 1966 South Korean troops set fire to the Binh Tai villagers’ homes and shot the villagers who fled the burning buildings. The raid had been ordered as a punitive action by the Division Headquarters as retaliation for the killing of a ROKA Infantry Major three days before by Sniper fire. The Marines were transported to the site of the massacre by Huey helicopters.
References
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