My Trach Massacre

When

29 Nov 1947

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

300

Coordinates

17.19° N, 106.80° E

1947 massacre of civilians by French soldiers in Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam

The Mỹ Trạch Massacre was a mass murder and wartime rape committed by the French Army against Vietnamese civilians in the First Indochina War. French soldiers committed the massacre in Mỹ Trạch village, Mỹ Thủy commune, Lệ Thủy District, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam from 5 am to 8 am on 29 November 1948. The French Army burned 326 houses and murdered more than half of the village's residents.

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