Date 12 February 1968 Attack type Massacre Perpetrators Allegedly ROK Marines | Target Phong Nhi villagers Deaths 69-79 | |
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Location Phong Nhi village, Điện Bàn District of Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam | ||
Phong nh and phong nh t massacre
The Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre (Korean: 퐁니·퐁넛 양민학살 사건, Vietnamese: Thảm sát Phong Nhất và Phong Nhị) was a massacre allegedly conducted by the 2nd Marine Division of the South Korean Marines on 12 February 1968 of unarmed citizens in Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất village, Điện Bàn District of Quảng Nam Province in South Vietnam.
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Aftermath
After the massacre, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese Army soldiers reached the village later that day; they treated and transported the surviving villagers to nearby hospitals.
At the time the massacre occurred, the Phong Nhị villagers had had a close relationship with the U.S. Marines and the village men volunteered as South Vietnam Army soldiers. On 25 February, the next massacre occurred in Hà Mỹ village. In 1969, one of the victims' families made a petition to the President of South Vietnam Parliament for compensation.
Report
On 11 November 2000, former ROK Vietnam Expeditionary Forces Commanding Officer Lieutenant general Chae Myung-shin (ko) conceded that Chief of Staff of the United States Army General William Westmoreland demanded the investigation several times. Then South Korean command replied that the two villages were not in the route of the ROK Marines who patrolled the area and claimed the possibility of Viet Cong who wore the ROK Marine uniforms.
Chae testified that there were numerous cases in which the Viet Cong utilized the duckhunter pattern used by the ROK Marines to commit misdeeds in order to incite unpopular opinion on ROK troops in the area and supported his claim with the testimonies of the District Chief of Dien Han District and an ARVN Sergeant.