My Lai Massacre

Mỹ Lai Massacre Thảm sát Mỹ Lai
Location	Son My veelage, Sơn Tịnh Destrict o Sooth Vietnam
Coordinates	15°10′42″N 108°52′10″E
Date	Mairch 16, 1968
Target	My Lai 4 an My Khe 4 hamlets
Attack teep	Massacre
Daiths	347 accordin tae the Unitit States Airmy (nae includin My Khe killins), ithers estimate mair nor 400 killed an injuries are unkent, Vietnamese govrenment leets 504 killed in tot frae baith My Lai an My Khe
Perpetrators	Task force frae the Unitit States Airmy Americal Diveesion 2LT. William Calley (convictit an then released bi Preses Nixon tae serve hoose arrest for twa years)

The Mỹ Lai Massacre (Vietnamese: thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰɐ̃ːm ʂɐ̌ːt mǐˀ lɐːj], [mǐˀlɐːj] ( listen)) wis the Vietnam War mass killin o atween 347 an 504 unairmed ceevilians in Sooth Vietnam on Mairch 16, 1968. It wis committit bi U.S. Airmy sodgers frae Company C, 1st Battalion, 20t Infantry Regiment, 11t Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Diveesion. Victims includit men, weemen, bairns, an infants. Some o the weemen war gang-raped an thair bouks mutilatit. Twinty-sax sodgers war chairged wi creeminal offenses, but anly Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, wis convictit. Foond guilty o killin 22 villagers, he wis oreeginally gien a life sentence, but served anly three an a hauf years unner hoose arrest.