Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served three-and-a-half years under house arrest. Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, as were children as young as 12. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Army soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and Company B, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Between 347 and 504 unarmed people were killed by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam, on 16 March 1968 during the Vietnam War. The Mỹ Lai massacre ( / ˌ m iː ˈ l aɪ/ Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai ( listen)) was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S.
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