American Genocide of the Vietnamese People, 1945–1974
The war criminals of the United States Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force murdered three million people in Vietnam, in countless places like My Lai. Most of the victims were women and children. The CIA even had an official program of state terrorism in Vietnam, known as “Operation Phoenix” or the “Phoenix Program”. Through the Phoenix Program, hundreds of thousands of people were tortured to death in provincial “interrogation centers” all over Vietnam. These torture centers were built specifically for that purpose by the United States. Women were always raped as part of the torture before being murdered. The large-scale terrorism, rape and mass-murder throughout the countryside was the collective policy of the CIA, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Navy. The My Lai massacre itself was an operation of the Phoenix Program.