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In the audience, Ton Nu Thi Ninh, whose 20-year diplomatic career included a post as Vietnam’s ambassador to the European Union, was aghast. On February 25, 1969, Kerrey led an operation in the Mekong Delta village of Thanh Phong, aiming to kill local Viet Cong leaders. His Navy team reported they had killed 21 Viet Cong, which earned Kerrey a Bronze Star; in fact, at least 20 women, children and elderly men lay dead in the village. Not a single Viet Cong fighter was killed. The deaths were unknown until 2001, when the *New York Times Magazine* <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/25/magazine/one-awful-night-in-thanh-phong.html> and “60 Minutes II” <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/memories-of-a-massacre-part-i/> published an account of the events. At the time, some, including the Vietnamese government, called for Kerrey to be charged with war crimes. He apologized, and the outcry subsided, as American commentators, including then-Senator John Kerry, largely concluded that Bob Kerrey himself was a victim of an unjust war. As a high-level Vietnamese official, Ninh had met Kerrey before and says she welcomed his involvement in education initiatives. But she was shocked that he had accepted a top leadership position at a university meant to symbolize newly warm ties between Vietnam and America. “How can those closely involved in this choice be so insensitive?” Ninh said in an interview in January. “We set the past aside and we move forward. We want to make friends, but not everything goes.” http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/48289-how-a-us-backed-university-in-vietnam-unleashed-old-demons _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
