Binh Tai Massacre

Binh Tai Massacre
Quảng Ngãi Province
Location	Binh Tai village, South Vietnam
Date	9 October 1966
Target	Binh Tai villagers
Attack type
Deaths	168
Perpetrators	South Korean Forces

The Bình Tai Massacre was a massacre perpetrated by South Korean Forces on 9 October 1966 of 168 citizens in Binh Tai village in South Vietnam.

The Hankyoreh Sinmun investigated war crimes in Vietnam and revealed other atrocities.

Colonel Kim Ki-tae, former commander of the Seventh Company, 2nd Marine Division of the ROK Marines, confessed to Hankyoreh that on 9 October 1966 South Korean troops set fire to the Binh Tai villagers’ homes and shot the villagers who fled the burning buildings. The raid had been ordered as a punitive action by the Division Headquarters as retaliation for the killing of a ROKA Infantry Major three days before by Sniper fire. The Marines were transported to the site of the massacre by Huey helicopters.