The Mỹ Lai Massacre ( ; ) was the Vietnam War mass murder Killing of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District , South Vietnam , on 16 March 1968 .

These hamlets were marked Recording on the U.S. Army topographic maps as Mỹ Lai and Mỹ Khê .

Currently , the event is referred Adducing to as the `` My Lai Massacre '' in the United States and called Name_conferral the `` Sơn Mỹ Massacre '' in Vietnam .

Along with the No Gun Ri massacre in South Korea 18 years earlier , Mỹ Lai was one of the largest publicized massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century .

The Amrita Bazar Patrika described Statement the Mandwi massacre Killing as My Lai massacre put into shade .

According to Major R. Rajamani , the commander of the Indian army contingent that arrived Arriving on 9 June , the My Lai massacre Catastrophe was not even half as gruesome as in Mandwi .

On 14 February 2015 , `` Sea Smooth '' ′s captain Lai Sai-ming was convicted of 39 counts of manslaughter over the deaths , while `` Lamma IV '' ′s captain Chow Chi-wai was acquitted Judgment_communication of the same charges by the High Court .

On 16 February , Lai and Chow were sentenced Rewards_and_punishments to eight years ' and nine months ' imprisonment respectively .

George Fernandes , who later served as defense Defending minister of India ( 1998–2004 ) , called the massacre Killing India ’ s My Lai .