The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. The three were later widely praised and decorated by the Army for their heroic actions They received hate mail and death threats and found mutilated animals on their doorsteps. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and protect the wounded were initially denounced by several U.S. The massacre also increased domestic opposition to the U.S.
The incident prompted global outrage when it became public knowledge in 1969. military codeword for the "Viet Cong stronghold" was "Pinkville". The event is also called the Son My Massacre, especially in the Vietnamese state media. The massacre took place in the hamlets of My Lai and My Khe of Son My village. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but only served three and a half years under house arrest. soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at Mỹ Lai, only Second Lieutenant William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company, was convicted. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies were later found to be mutilated and many women were allegedly raped prior to the killings.
Victims included women, men, children, and infants. The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of "Charlie" Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division.
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