What the records say
- When
- 1978
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 10.50° N, 104.90° E
- Description
- massacre caused by Khmer Rouge in Bù Đốp on 16 March 1978
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Bù Đốp Masscare
Mass killing in Vietnam
The Bù Đốp Masscare was the mass killing of 247 vietnamese civilians committed by the Kampuchea Revolutionary Army on March 16, 1978, in Hung Phuoc, Thien Hung communes, Loc Ninh district, Binh Phuoc province, It was a spillover of the Cambodian genocide which also targeted Vietnamese people mainly in Cambodia. hundreds of people arrested or displaced, houses burned, and food and property looted.
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