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By means of repentant soldiers, journalist Seymour Hersh learned of the chaos in My Lai. On the morning of March 16, 1968, the helicopters of the Company Charlie landed in the small Vietnamese village. The order: to destroy the village suspected of covering Viking combatants. Between 730 and 11h, the soldiers killed about 500 people, between children, women, and older. They abused women and girls. Babies were killed by shots or at the point of b…