Accession Number | P04665.069 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Digital file |
Maker |
Nguyen, Huu Hien |
Place made | Vietnam: Thua Tien Province, Hue |
Date made | c 23 February 1969 |
Conflict |
Vietnam, 1962-1975 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright unknown - orphaned work |
In a bare room, the skulls and long bones of victims of a massacre that was perpetrated by the ...
In a bare room, the skulls and long bones of victims of a massacre that was perpetrated by the Viet Cong during the 1968 Tet Offensive are set out on a long table and a bench. As a mark of respect to the dead, a lighted candle stands on the table. Following information provided by enemy defectors, the US 1st/502d Infantry Regiment, 101st Infantry Division (Airmobile), located the massacre site at Da Mai Creek south of Hue on 19 September 1969. The remains and personal effects of the victims were recovered and brought to Hue a few days later. The massacre 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.