Korea held accountable for 1968 massacre in Vietnam

Seoul court orders settlement for Vietnamese female whose household members were killed by Korean soldiers released : 7 Feb 2023 at 21: 16 A Vietnamese lady holds incense sticks amongst the graves of fallen soldiers who were eliminated throughout the Vietnam War to mark the 70th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day at Truong Son National Cemetery in Quang Tri province of Vietnam on July 23,2017 (Reuters File Photo) A court in Seoul on Tuesday provided a landmark judgment holding the South Korean federalgovernment liable for a massacre dedicated by its soldiers in the Vietnam War, buying it to pay settlement. In the 1960s and early 1970s, South Korea sentout soldiers to assistance America’s doomed battle versus the communist North Vietnamese throughout a bloody two-decade dispute that ended with the fall of Saigon and Vietnam’s reunification in1975 South Korean marines were implicated of killing around 70 civilians throughout a raid on Feb 12, 1968 in a case brought to court in Seoul by a Vietnamese lady who surv
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