My Lai Massacre

Thesis Statement

My Lai Massacre was an incident that promoted global annoyance when it can to the knowledge of the public in 1969.

Introduction

My Lai Massacre was a Vietnam War, in which more than 347 unarmed civilians were brutally murdered by United States Army soldiers on 16th March, 1968. Most of the fatalities in this war were children, elderly people, women and infants. Women were supposedly raped before killings and there were many who were gang raped. The offensive and brutality of the My Lai Massacre proved as a setback of American exceptionalism and highlighted a brutal picture of American soldiers ...