Why My Lai?!

[j.r-ahde]

Hello you all!

There is a documentary here, that asks the following question:

What made the Americans do, what they did there?!

All the best
Jukka

[Steve S]

Human nature under stress.........I'm not being clever,Guerilla warfare is full of such things..........In THAT case,poorly disciplined conscripts under poor command............
Steve

[ianincleveland]

They were told it was a Vietcong village and to go in and wipe out the resistance,the problem was most of them just shot anything that moved.The man who ordered the shooting only served 3 yrs in jail,and he was the only one convicted.

[Doug Irvine]

The following is a very good documentary about the massacre at My Lai.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/mylai/player/