At the site of a massacre carried out by the Viet Cong along Da Mai Creek south of Hue during the ...

At the site of a massacre carried out by the Viet Cong along Da Mai Creek south of Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive, civilian volunteers and soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) place on top of a stack of flour sacks skulls and bones they have recovered of victims of the mass killing. They have already filled the sacks with other remains. The victims, most of them Roman Catholics, totalled about 428 people and comprised clergymen, senior government employees, doctors, teachers, other professionals and anyone else sympathetic to the South Vietnamese regime and its American supporters. The Viet Cong rounded them up and confined them in Hue's Phu Cam Cathedral before leading them out of the city in early February 1968 and shooting them dead along the banks of the creek. Following information provided by enemy defectors, the US 1st/502d Infantry Regiment, 101st Infantry Division (Airmobile), located the remains on 19 September 1969. The remains and personal effects recovered from the site will allow relatives of the dead to identify them and give them a proper burial.