Vietnam War: Survivors litigate in South Korea: Phong Ny Phong Nhat Village

Vietnam War: Survivors litigate in South Korea: Phong Ny Phong Nhat Village

-Filing a damage compensation proceeding in a Korean court-

The New York Times (NYT):

On August 21, NYT reported in an article from Seoul.

At the time of the Vietnam War, it was said that it was damaged by the South Korean troops dispatched.

A survivor of the village has filed a proceeding in a Korean court for damage compensation.

Village survivor
Phong Ny Phong Nhat Village
Nguyen Ti Tan (61):

In this article, “The Korean army has come to the village. I lost five people, including my mother, sister, brother and relatives.”

The South Korean army is stuck in the nightmare of that day when it came to our village.

Korean and Vietnamese governments:

“Neither is willing to resolve this case, which caused victims,” ​​the NYT pointed out.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in:

I visited Hanoi in 2018.

At that time, he only “expressed his regret for his unlucky past.”

He says, “I haven’t made an official apology to Vietnam.”

Petition to President Moon of South Korea:

Nguyen and the other survivors sent a petition to President Moon.

In the petition:

“We want an apology,” it says.

Joongang Ilbo

https://s.japanese.joins.com/JArticle/282187?sectcode=210&servcode=200

Vietnam War Victims Seek Answers On Massacre

From South Korea Seoul —

South Korean maritime forces
have a reputation for leaving no breath and even roasted suckling pigs when passing through hostile territories.

After troops wiped out the villages of Fonni and Fonnut in central Vietnam on February 12, 1968,

numerous bodies
were found and all unarmed civilians, most children and women, were shot or stabbed with bayonets.

“This old man came out of the burrow and raised his hand,” recalled Ryu Jinson, a former Marine member of the unit who was 22 at the time.

“He kept begging for life, thinking he would be killed when he was taken away.”

Furious, the sergeant swore his clip to the man and emptied it, Ryu said.

Almost half a century
after the end of the war, victims of the Fonni and Fonnut massacres

are seeking compensation from the Seoul government in the first proceeding of this kind, which was brought to court in South Korea.

“The Korean army has never been freed from the nightmare of the day it came to our village,” said Nguyen Titan, 61,

who was injured in Fonni after losing five relatives, including his mother, sister and brother. Said. 1968.

But the South Korean government
has never visited our village and never asked what happened.

One of the US Marine Corps took a picture.

More than 70 villagers
were killed in the attack, according to American documents and recent testimony from survivors.

The victims of this incident were defenseless civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, who were killed to plead for life,

said Major John M. Campanelli, an American marine investigator.

Wrote in a declassified document in February.

The Anand Market

https://www.anandmarket.in/vietnam-war-victims-seek-answers-on-massacre-from-south-korea/