Incense sticks are positioned at a monument to honor bloodbath victims in Vietnam.

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Incense sticks are positioned at a monument to honor bloodbath victims in Vietnam.

Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP through Getty Pictures

SEOUL — A South Korean court docket has ordered the federal government to compensate the survivor of a bloodbath dedicated by South Korean troops through the Vietnam Warfare. It is the primary time a court docket has discovered the South’s authorities answerable for such atrocities.

Nguyen Thi Thanh was 7 in 1968 when she says South Korean marines killed 5 of her relations and shot her within the abdomen.

In line with U.S. navy paperwork and survivors, the marines killed greater than 70 civilians and wounded 20 in two villages in Quang Nam province.

This got here weeks earlier than the My Lai bloodbath, dedicated by U.S. troops, additional South.

Nguyen Thi Thanh sued the South Korean authorities in 2020 for practically $24,000. The court docket rejected the federal government’s argument that Viet Cong guerrillas have been combined in with the locals.

South Korea despatched greater than 300,000 troops to battle in Vietnam, the most important contingent of any U.S. ally.

This initially appeared in NPR’s Newscast.