With american infantry landed by helicopter on the edge of the village of near the northern coast of South Vietnam the platoon believed vietcong forces were in the area but they faced no resistance yet 504 innocents women children and old men were brutally dragged an. Army photographer captured moments of the bloody assault. When the story would have been leaked out more than a year later there was an investigation 25. 00 members of Charlie Company and their officers were charged. With murder there were few trials only one person. Was found guilty he was never punished. Charges against most of the soldiers were dismissed. The what is now family in an underground shelter a place where they all ate well how long. Did you stay down in the shelter. From 8 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon surrounded by his memories congress spent years wishing for a way to understand why the soldiers committed the crime that has devastated as a life what would it be like for you to meet a soldier who
Of people one on one east investigates on aljazeera. Hello and welcome again to rewind im dead. Back in 2006 when we launched aljazeera english we set out to make the kind of documentaries other channels just wouldnt do and here on rewind were revisiting some of the best of them to find out how they came about and the story behind the story today were rewinding to 2008 and a disturbing film about one of the most shocking atrocities of the vietnam war the midline massacre it was a major war crime and once it came to light the story sparked International Outrage adding to the growing pressure in america and around the world to bring an end to the war in vietnam in march 1968 Charlie Company a platoon of american infantry landed by helicopter on the edge of the village of me lie near the northern coast of South Vietnam the platoon believed the viet cong forces were in the area but they faced no resistance yet 504. 00 innocents women children and old men were brutally dragged into ditches
Aljazeera english we set out to make the kind of documentaries other channels just wouldnt do and here on rewind were revisiting some of the best of them to find out how they came about and the story behind the story today were rewinding to 2008 and a disturbing film about one of the most shocking atrocities of the vietnam war the massacre it was a major war crime and once it came to light the story sparked International Outrage adding to the growing pressure in america and around the world to bring an end to the war in vietnam in march 1968 Charlie Company a platoon of american infantry landed by helicopter on the edge of the village of me lie near the northern coast of South Vietnam the platoon believed the viet cong forces were in the area but they faced no resistance yet 504. 00 innocents women children and old men were brutally dragged into ditches and machine guns in the special film reporter josh rushing a veteran of the marine corps himself took a former member of Charlie Compa
A while just to bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter to you. Down to 0. Hello and welcome again to rewind im dating. Back in 2006 when we launched aljazeera english we set out to make the kind of documentaries other channels just wouldnt do and here on rewind were revisiting some of the best of them to find out how they came about on the story behind the story today were rewinding to 2008 and a disturbing film about one of the most shocking atrocities of the vietnam war the midline massacre it was a major war crime and once it came to light the story sparked International Outrage adding to the growing pressure in america and around the world to bring an end to the war in vietnam in march 1968 Charlie Company a platoon of american infantry landed by helicopter on the edge of the village of me lie near the northern coast of South Vietnam the platoon believed vietcong forces were in the area but they faced no resistance yet 504. 00 innocents women children and old men were b