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Korea held responsible for 1968 massacre in Vietnam

A Vietnamese woman holds incense sticks among the graves of fallen soldiers who were killed during the Vietnam War to mark the 70th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs' Day at Truong Son National Cemetery in Quang Tri province of Vietnam on July 23, 2017. (Reuters File Photo)

A court in Seoul on Tuesday delivered a landmark ruling holding the South Korean government accountable for a massacre committed by its soldiers in the Vietnam War, ordering it to pay compensation.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, South Korea sent troops to support America’s doomed fight against the communist North Vietnamese during a bloody two-decade conflict that ended with the fall of Saigon and Vietnam’s reunification in 1975.

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