This coming April will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, and though it had a tragic ending, the ...

In April, Nguyen Thi Thanh became the first Vietnamese to sue South Korea over atrocities that have been largely forgotten. A look at how the term resonates in countries across the region.

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(Civilian war casualties were 80 percent of all ... Turse’s book has shifted the focus of the Vietnam War from the stories of American soldiers to the stories of the civilians whose suffering ...

This tactic also led to a high number of civilian casualties ... the American military began a policy of sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’.

These efforts to ‘manage’ the Cold War and to improve relations ... USSR in 1972), along with the growing number of American casualties in Vietnam, may have shaped Nixon’s attitude to ...

He has written several books about the Vietnam War, including "My Lai: An American Atrocity in the ... (1987); the maltreatment of civilians in "Casualties of War" (1989), with Sean Penn and ...