The victims KILLED BY VIET CONG AND NORTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS at Hue in TET MAU-THAN 1968 were plucked from their homes from lists prepared in advance, taken out to hidden places, forced to dig their own graves-and then shot in cold blood or buried alive.
We now might start by pondering the Communists Vietnam's method of avoiding needless waste of ammunition.
For this purpose, a group of 15 or 20 of innocence civilians
in Hue were forced to dig their own burial trenches. Their ankles were tied. Their elbows were also tied behind their backs, and a rope was passed through all their elbows. They were then ordered to squat in line on the brink of the newly made trench.
That way, a sharp tug at each end of tired rope was enough to tip the whole line of squatting men, women and children (for there were also children!) into the trench. No doubt they writhed in their ropes but it was still very easy to bury them alive.
Such was the fate of many, when the Communists Ha-Noi and the Viet Cong briefly seized this lovely little city in the Tet offensive.
In Hue, itself, about more than 7,600 civilians were buried alive or sprayed at the trench-side with automatic weapons, or had their heads
broken with mattocks. About another thousand civilians were killed in the same manner along the line of march of the retreating North Vietnamese regiments.
We now might start by pondering the Communists Vietnam's method of avoiding needless waste of ammunition.
For this purpose, a group of 15 or 20 of innocence civilians
in Hue were forced to dig their own burial trenches. Their ankles were tied. Their elbows were also tied behind their backs, and a rope was passed through all their elbows. They were then ordered to squat in line on the brink of the newly made trench.
That way, a sharp tug at each end of tired rope was enough to tip the whole line of squatting men, women and children (for there were also children!) into the trench. No doubt they writhed in their ropes but it was still very easy to bury them alive.
Such was the fate of many, when the Communists Ha-Noi and the Viet Cong briefly seized this lovely little city in the Tet offensive.
In Hue, itself, about more than 7,600 civilians were buried alive or sprayed at the trench-side with automatic weapons, or had their heads
broken with mattocks. About another thousand civilians were killed in the same manner along the line of march of the retreating North Vietnamese regiments.
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Total civilian death and missing :
7,600 - dead and missing
Battlefield :
1,900 wounded since the war ; 944 civilians killed since war
Victims of the mass graves in Hue 1968: 1173 No. Mortem finding in the first round after the war
in 1968, 809 number of corpses during the second search , even found in the dunes . May 3-7 1969 , 428 found the corpse of the third tranche , in the slot Da Mai ( Nam Hoa district ). September 1969
300 corpses find in Wednesday session , the Phu Thu . November 1969
100 bodies found.
1946 still missing (as of 1970 )
victims KILLED BY VIET CONG AND NORTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS - tet Mau Than 1968
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