Koreans come to Vietnam to apologize
19/12/16
50 years after the massacre
of civilians in Quang Ngai carried out by South Korean’s soldiers, a lot of
Koreans have come back to the Central of Vietnam, kneeling before the memorial
board to apologize Vietnam.
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| On December 2nd, the ceremony to mark
50 years after the massacre of South Korean’s soldiers took place in Binh Hoa
Commune (Binh Son district, Quang Ngai province). After the main ceremony of
the local government, 29 Korean had laid the wreath and stood in silent in
front of the memorial board in a heavy rain. |
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| As an apology, they were on their knees before
the board that have names of 430 victims of the massacre. This program was
operated by the Jeju Novelist Association with participation of many Korean social
organizations. |
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| Koreans were on their knees and offered incenses
before the memorial board |
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| As recorded, during three days of December 3rd,
5th and 6th 1966, the Blue Dragon division of South
Korean military had killed 430 innocent civilians, mostly women, children and
old people in Binh Hoa commune, Binh Son district, Quang Ngai province |
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| Being told about the massacre, a lot of members
in the Korean delegation burst into
tear. |
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| After the ceremony, the Korean delegation
visited the hatred board in Binh Hoa. On the board, there are the exact number
of women, children, the old people and even the pregnant women who were killed
by South Korean army. | |
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| One member of the Korean delegation wrote down
the detail of the massacre |
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| The “Sincerely apologize Vietnam” movement has
formed in Korea for more than 10 years, after the investigation reports of the
female journalist Ku Su-Jeong was on The Hankyoreh21 magazine, telling about
the massacre of the Korean military in Vietnam |
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| 29 Koreans spent 1 minute for tribute together |
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| Koreans also visited the Binh Hoa martyrs
cemetery |
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| At the cemetery, the Koreans was standing
bareheaded in the heavy rain |
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| The Korean had knelt for a long time in front of
Truong Dinh crater. The Binh Hoa massacre Monument includes Choi Giua field, Cau village, Truong Dinh crater,
Rung steep and mass graves of the victims. |
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| The representative of Viet-Korea peace fund had
carried a Pieta Vietnam statue (the last lullaby) to the house of the victim Doan Nghia (50 years old,
Binh Hoa commune) to apologize. |
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| In the massacre, Nghia was lucky to survive
because his mother had used her body to cover him in mud, however he lost his
eyes. Nghia did not receive the Pieta statue personally, but had played guitar
and sung for Koreans. |
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The massacres that the Korean military committed during the Vietnam War on the Vietnamese took about 9000 lives
There are also the 1966 massacres at Tay Vinh that saw 1200 civilians being slaughtered and at Go Dai with 380 people rounded up and killed
the fact that had been ignored for a long time after the war until it was unveiled by the South Korean media in the early 2000s
Koreans have started realizing their sins in Vietnam war
Korean and their government must officially apologize Vietnam, for the righteousness of future generations and for peace across Asia
we hope for peace between Vietnam and South Korea, but we should never forget the past, especially what happened in wars in Vietnam
the South Korean government must take responsibility for its actions in the war and to shed light on a chapter in history that has affected both countries.
The “Vietnam Pieta – the Last Lullaby” statue was created by Korean artists Kim Seo Kyung and Kim Eun Sung to comfort the souls of mothers and unnamed new-born babies killed in the massacre in Central Vietnam
Ever since Vietnam and the ROK normalized diplomatic relations in 1992, there has been little discussion of the latter’s involvement in the armed conflict
South Korea deployed more than 300,000 troops to Vietnam from 1964 to 1973, second only to the U.S. military force.
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