What the records say
- When
- 18 Apr 1978 – 30 Apr 1978
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 3,157
- Coordinates
- 10.50° N, 104.90° E
- Description
- genocidal massacre in Vietnam
Ba Chúc massacre
Mass killing in Vietnam
The Ba Chúc massacre was the mass killing of 3,157 civilians in Ba Chúc, An Giang province, Vietnam, by the Kampuchea Revolutionary Army from 18 to 30 April 1978. It was a spillover of the Cambodian genocide which also targeted Vietnamese people mainly in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge took the local villagers to temples and schools to torture and kill them.
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