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...Then, Klann said, "an order was given" to shoot them. "We lined up, and we opened fire." A baby was the last one alive, Klann told the Times Magazine. "There were blood and guts splattering everywhere." 60 Minutes II backs up Klann's version with the words of Pham Thi Lanh, identified as the wife of a Viet Cong fighter, who claimed to have witnessed the scene. "They ordered everybody out from the bunker, and they lined them up, and they shot all of them from behind," she said. When a TIME reporter visited Thanh Phong last week, Lanh told...
...What isn't yet clear is whether villager Pham Thi Lanh is an honest witness, a propagandist or just an old woman with hazy memories. In interviews with 60 Minutes II, she emerged as the key eyewitness corroborating the worst charges against Kerrey and his squad?she claimed to have seen them use knives and guns to murder women, children and an old man. But when interviewed last week by TIME, she first repeated her story, then changed it, saying she hadn't actually seen the killings, but had only heard the screams and later seen the bodies. "I heard...
...past decades, relatives of those killed by the Americans in Thanh Phong have exhumed their remains and reburied them. Ten years ago, that's what Bui Thi Nhi did for her parents and three nieces and nephews. Nhi was in the district capital of Thanh Phu on the night Kerrey's Raiders moved in. She says she heard of her father's death from a survivor who told her that the Americans had called those hiding inside to come out, and then shot them. "At that time, I hated the Americans so much," says...
...Then, Klann said, "an order was given" to shoot them. "We lined up, and we opened fire." A baby was the last one alive, Klann told the Times Magazine. "There were blood and guts splattering everywhere." 60 Minutes II backs up Klann's version with the words of Pham Thi Lanh, identified as the wife of a Viet Cong fighter, who claimed to have witnessed the scene. "They ordered everybody out from the bunker, and they lined them up, and they shot all of them from behind," she said. When a TIME reporter visited Thanh Phong last week, Lanh told...
What isn't yet clear is whether villager Pham Thi Lanh is an honest witness, a propagandist or just an old woman with hazy memories. In interviews with 60 Minutes II, she emerged as the key eyewitness corroborating the worst charges against Kerrey and his squad--she claimed to have seen them use knives and guns to murder women, children and an old man. But when interviewed last week by TIME, she first repeated her story, then changed it, saying she hadn't actually seen the killings, but had only heard the screams and later seen the bodies. "I heard...