Speaking at the ceremony, Nguyen Dang Vu, Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said in remembering the sorrowful past, local residents should turn grief into action in order to promote local socio-economic development.
On the morning of October 9, 1966, a platoon of the Republic of Korea’s army raided Phuoc Binh village in Tinh Son commune and forced local residents to gather in a school where Korean soldiers fired submachine guns and threw grenades at them.
Later Korean troops continued devastating the village and committed further crimes, killing a total of 68 people, including 21 elderly people, 47 women and children in Phuoc Binh.
While Phuoc Binh villagers were still reeling from the mass murder, Korean soldiers staged another raid on October 13 on Dien Nien village, also in Tinh Son commune, where a total of 112 people were killed.
The two massacres of Dien Nien and Phuoc Binh where 180 innocent civilians were murdered are among many horrible crimes committed by the Republic of Korea’s soldiers on the Vietnamese people during the war against the American forces to unite the country.
