22 June 2008
The My Lai massacre
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It's forty years since the massacre of an entire village in Vietnam and only now has the full story come out. The Peers Inquiry of l970 exposed it as one of the most shocking events in American military history, and it has reverberations today in how the US army conducts itself, and explains tensions over Guantanamo Bay. A BBC World Service production.
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Kirsten Garrett
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