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The My Lai tapes - Part one [audio 23min]

Robert Hodierne, an American military journalist, pieces together the horror and barbarism that swept through the village of My Lai 40 years ago. He reconstructs the events that led up to that day with exclusive archive recordings from the US Army's own investigation into the massacre. He also speaks to surviving victims and to some of the perpetrators of that historic day.
Read entire article at BBC World Service