Quang Ngai, Vietnam: My Lai Massacre: On March 16, 1968, an American platoon was dispatched to the small village of My Lai, where intelligence reported insurgents to be hiding among the civilian population. In what became one of the most infamous evidences of American brutality in Vietnam, the soldiers slaughtered the entire population of the village, some 500 people, most of whom were women, children and the elderly. The massacre drew international ire, and greatly galvanized the anti-war movement in the United States. Today, numerous Vietnamese tour groups visit My Lai, where a small museum tells the gruesome details of the massacre. A memorial with the names of the dead stands in the middle of the village, and smaller plaques in the surrounding area mark places where individuals were gunned down.
