Batang Kali massacre
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The Batang Kali massacre was the killing of 24 unarmed male civilians in Batang Kali by the British Army's Scots Guards on 12 December 1948. The massacre took place in Batang Kali, Malaya during the M
British headhunting during the Malayan Emergency
British soldiers pose with a severed head inside a British military base
My Lai massacre
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The My Lai Massacre was a U.S. Army war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of between 347 and 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, in Sơn Mỹ village, Quả
Batang Kali massacre
…and communist guerrillas belonging to the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA). British author Christopher Hale described the massacre as "Britain's My Lai" in his book titled Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britain's My Lai. The massacre was one of a number committed during the war that saw British extrajudicial…
Photo taken by U.S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle in the aftermath of the massacre, showing mostly women and children dead on a road— famously used in the "And babies" poster
Sơn Mỹ operations, 16 March 1968
American soldiers from Company C disembark helicopters outside the hamlets.
American soldiers interrogate an old man and two children, one an infant. Photographer Ronald L. Haeberle did not see what ultimately happened to them.