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	Massacre at Hue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Massacre at Hue is the name given to describe the summary executions and mass killings that occurred during the Viet Cong and North Vietnam's capture, occupation and withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tet Offensive, considered one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
		During the initial battle, occupation and retaking of Hue, forty percent of the city was destroyed during 26 days of intense combat, and 116,000 of the Hue's 140,000 population were left homeless.
		Manhard recounted that during the NVA withdrawal from Hue the NVA summarily executed anyone in their custody who resisted being taken out of the city or who was too old, too young, or too frail to make the journey to the camp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massacre_at_Hue (1898 words)

	Massacre at Hue - North Vietnamese communist crime against its own people
		Hue is another demonstration of what man can bring himself to do when he fixes no limits on political action and pursues incautiously the dream of social perfectibility.
		Hue intellectuals have always been contemptuous of Communist ideology, brushing it aside as a latecomer to the history of ideas and not a very significant one at that.
		Hue, being a bastion of traditionalism, with its intellectuals steeped in Confucian learning intertwined with Buddhism, did not, even in the fermenting years of the 1920s, and 1930s, debate the merits of Communism.
	ngothelinh.50megs.com /Hue.html (4435 words)

	Battle Of Hue City
		And worse of all, the massacre of Hue, where thousands of unarmed citizens were clubbed to death and buried alive, were treated as minor news and practically escape world's attention.
		The massacre of thousands of people in Hue was not a result of personal vendettas but was rather a strategy of terror based on the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist determination to eliminate their enemies using "revolutionary violence".
		As Hue pulled itself out of the mess, one bloody sidelight of the battle was uncovered, something worse than refugees and cross-fire deaths: the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese had massacred many of the people of Hue during their occupation.
	1stbattalion3rdmarines.com /operations-history-folder/battle_of_hue_city.htm (9789 words)

	Talk:Massacre at Hue/Archive 1 - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		No serious history of the Vietnam war considers the "Massacre at Hue" to be anything but a propaganda stunt by the US and their South Vietnamese puppet regime (the number of people executed was much lower).
		Now the massacre is certainly not a main focus of this work, but it certainly says enough for me to regard this matter as unresolved or lacking sufficient exploration.
		The massacre at Hue has pertained, since the initial set of reports, to the massacre per se, not the various other casualties (civilian and military) which resulted from the military battle per se.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Talk:Massacre_at_Hue/Archive_1 (9235 words)

	Urban Operations - An Historical Casebook
		Hue was really two cities divided by the Song Huong, or River of Perfume, which flowed through the city from the southwest to the northeast on its way to the South China Sea ten kilometers to the east.
		The battle of Hue is a textbook study of the difficulties involved in combat in an urban area.
		Despite the outcome of the war, the battle of Hue remains a classic study in urban warfare that clearly demonstrates not only the rigors and demands of fighting in a built-up area, but also the valor and fortitude demanded of the soldiers who are to fight in such situations.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/2002/MOUTWilbanks.htm (12818 words)

	Hue - 1968 Tet Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is estimated that more than 3,000 residents of Hue perished at the hands of the Communists during their occupation of this former imperial city.
		Those spared were given a long lecture by the Communists and warned that the reds were giving up the city after 25 daye of occupation only "temporarily." Tbey said they would be back and expected the people to stay "loyal to Communism." Failure to do this, they warned, would mean "liquidation" upon their return.
		Then the city of Hue was rocked by the discovery of the first mass grave and reports that thousands of civilians had been murdered after being forced to carry weapons, ammunition and food supplies for the enemy on their withdrawal from Hue.
	www.saigon.com:8081 /regions/hue (2114 words)

	THE SILENT TEARS IN HUE CITY
		Although the date is the 23rd day of the 5th month, people are free to hold service for the dead on any date to their family's convenience, providing that it is within the 5th month.
		The 1968 massacre in Hue brought a sharp turn in the common attitude toward the war.
		The US Navy has a warship named "Hue City." It is not known how many of her sailors realize that the city she carries as a name suffered so much.
	www.vietquoc.com /0002vq.htm (1152 words)

	Hue Massacre
		The dead in the creek in Nam Hoa district belonged to a group of 398 men from the Hue suburb of Phu Cam.
		For three weeks, the remains were arranged on long shelves at a nearby school, and hundreds of Hue citizens came to identify their missing relatives.
		That did not happen, and when the battle for Hue began turning in the allies' favor, the Communists apparently panicked and killed off their prisoners.
	moderntimes.vcdh.virginia.edu /HIUS316/mbase/docs/hue.html (743 words)

	Gareth Porter, "The 1968 Hue Massacre", Part One.
		The agency of the Saigon government given overall responsibility for compiling data on the alleged "massacre" and publicizing the information was neither the Ministry of Social Welfare and Refugees nor the Ministry of Health, as one might have expected, but the Tenth Political Warfare Battalion of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
		It was in large part due to the work of one man that the Hue "massacre" received significant press coverage and wide comment in 1969 and 1970.
		Pike himself briefed several reporters on his version of the communist occupation of Hue and at the same time circulated a translation of a captured communist document which he had found in the files and which he argued was an open admission of the mass murder of innocent civilians during the occupation of Hue.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/porterhue1.html (2148 words)

	Hue
		What this man of God did not say, however, is that what differentiated the US military from Hanoi and its Southern stooges is that while the Mai Lai massacre was an isolated act that appalled the US military, North Vietnam had implemented a policy of terrorism by mutilation and massacre.
		The Hue massacre was the most shocking example of the North's barbaric policy.
		Hue, an administrative center just south of the border, was over run by communist forces who quickly set about their cold-blooded business of calculated mass murder.
	www.11thcavnam.com /education/hue.htm (1001 words)

	Asia Finest Discussion Forum -> —— The “Huê' Massacre” —— (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The thousands of civilians who died in Hue, according to the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffith, were in fact killed by what he described as "the most hysterical use of American firepower ever seen" during the U.S. effort to recapture the city.
		Well there was a massacre in 1968 while the Viet Congs were occupying Hue, but I believe the figure is around 5000, which is still considered an atrocity and a crime against humanity.
		This article is trying to point the blame of the Hue Massacre on the defender of the city and not the invaders who commited the attrocities! Think about the absurdity of that and remember just because it's print, doesn't mean its true.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=16064 (6870 words)

	Gareth Porter, "The 1968 Hue Massacre", Part Two
		As for the Catholics of Hue, the evidence from both communist documents and eyewitness testimony shows that the NLF's policy was not directed against the Catholic Church.
		The issue which historians must weigh in the NLF occupation of Hue is not whether executions took place but whether they were indiscriminate or the result of a prearranged "purge" of whole strata of society, as charged by political warfare specialists of the Saigon and U.S. governments.
		Not only is the number of bodies uncovered in and around Hue open to question, but more important, the cause of death appears to have been shifted from the fighting itself to NLF execution.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/porterhue2.html (2872 words)

	t a c i t u s \|\| Know Hue? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After Hue was retaken, the South Vietnamese authorities were reported to be guilty of some of the same practices.
		Beyond Hue, which was just one incident, murder of civilians was as much a staple of the Viet Cong as milled rice.
		The massacre at Hue was an aberration, and not indicative of NVA behaviour generally.
	tacitus.org /story/2006/1/20/163451/217 (14822 words)

	AIM Report - November A, 1973
		It is remarkable that Solzhenitsyn, lacking access to the American press, perceived so accurately the disproportion in the attention devoted to the massacre at Hue and that at My Lai, while you, with all the resources at your disposal, should have failed to note this glaring disparity.
		The battle for Hue itself received enormous publicity in America in 1968, but the aftermath (the massacres) didn't...Some pieces were written about it in America but dropped from sight quickly.
		The failure of the American news media to expose fully the Hue massacres and to arouse the American people to an awareness of what happened at Hue is a serious blot on American journalism.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/1973/11.html (3322 words)

	Hue Massacre - Global Affairs Forum, Politics, Law, Science, Health
		Well, I'm on a roll after Tuesday's election, so I'll post something about the Hue massacre by VC during the Tet Offensive.
		Hue was the ancient capital of Vietnam, and the home to many historic architectural treasures.
		During the Tet Offensive in 1968, the VC took temporary control of it.
	www.globalaffairs.org /forum/showthread.php?t=29406 (330 words)

	Moïse's Bibliography: The Huê Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Discusses the details and particularly the timing of the Huê; Massacre (what sorts of people were killed at what stage of the process).
		Argues that the killings occurred when the Communists realized they were losing control of the city, and did not appear to have been part of any plan the Communists had had when they initially took control.
		Alje Vennema, The Viet Cong Massacre at Hue.
	www.clemson.edu /caah/history/facultypages/EdMoise/hue.html (347 words)

	The Vietnam-Watergate Backlash by Greg Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And we need to recall that it was Richard Nixon who ended the war, although its end was not the one we could have attained had not we been slammed with borderline treasonously skewed "reportage" by Walter Cronkite and others of his ilk.
		hushed it up — was perpetrated when the battle for the town of Hue turned against the Vietcong, who proceeded to slaughter the men, women, and children of several villages surrounding that besieged city after discovering that South Vietnamese support for their cause was less than expected.
		After the Hue massacre it was understood among the South Vietnamese that, as local provincial chief Le Van Than said at the time, "the Vietcong would kill them, regardless of their political belief."
	www.therant.us /staff/lewis/the_vietnam_watergate_backlash.htm (656 words)

	NOTAM Board - Was there really a massacre in Hue during TET 1968? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		NOTAM Board - Was there really a massacre in Hue during TET 1968?
		Was there really a massacre in Hue during TET 1968?
		The bodies of most have since been found in single and mass graves throughout Thua Thien Province which surrounds this cultural capital of Vietnam.
	www.popasmoke.com /notam2/printthread.php?t=3886 (83 words)

	The MOUT Homepage
		Marine's Sacrifice in the Battle of Hue (Sgt. Alfredo Gonzalez)
		Massacre at Hue (The battle and the Viet Cong/NVA massacre)
		The 1968 "Hue Massacre" (A revisionist version of NLF and NVA massacre of RVN civilians)
	www.specialoperations.com /mout/vietnam.html (810 words)

	Robert Elegant: How to Lose A War
		And many of us saw, in 1968, the mass graves of Hue, saw the corpses of thousands of civilians still festively dressed for Tet, the Vietnamese New Year.
		And it will cause distress to those of us journalists who, after the massacre of seventeen of our colleagues in April and May 1971, tried to explain these deaths as part of the hazards of covering a disorganized guerrilla war.
		Instructive on a larger scale is the contrast between the coverage of the American massacre at My Lai and the Viet Cong massacre at Hue.
	www.wellesley.edu /Polisci/wj/Vietnam/Readings/elegant.htm (9973 words)

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	Additional Materials on the Tet Offensive (1968)
		Summers contends that some war correspondents reported the incidents correctly and much can be gained from reading their accounts.
		This book, written by former U.S. Army Captain George Smith, gives the reader an eyewitness account of the twenty-five day struggle in the battle at Hue.
		Smith, an information adviser to South Vietnam's 1st Infantry Division, provides documentation of the South Vietnamese who assisted the U.S. Marine Corps in evicting the North Vietnamese Army, as well as other little know contributions of the South Vietnamese forces.
	www.richmond.edu /~ebolt/history398/Tet_Offensive.html (299 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Sgt Alfredo Gonzalez the Battle for Hue(Jan-Feb 1968)-Dec. 10th, 2003
		It was the morning of February 4, 1968, five days after the NVA and VC had overrun Hue, the old Imperial capital of Vietnam, at the beginning of their Tet Offensive.
		On 31 January 1968, during the initial phase of Operation Hue City, Sergeant Gonzalez's unit was formed as a reaction force and deployed to Hue to relieve the pressures on the beleaguered city.
		Half way to Hue Company A was stopped by heavy small arms and automatic weapons fire, probably from elements of the 810th NVA Battalion.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1037463/posts (10034 words)

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	Gia Dinh Nha Ky Thuat / STD Commandos Family
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