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Article: Haditha 'massacre' echoes atrocity which sparked the Sixties anti-war movement.(News)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2006
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Byline: By CHRIS HUGHES Security correspondent
A TINY jungle village became a byword for brutality in 1968 when US troops ran amok, massacring more than 500 unarmed Vietnamese men, women and children at My Lai.
It was the most shameful episode of that war and images of the atrocity drew global condemnation and calls for US troops to get out of Vietnam.
Nearly four decades later, reports emerging since March that US marines went on the rampage and murdered 24 civilians in the Iraqi village of Haditha has sickened the world.
It dwarfs the ...