SURVIVORS OF MY LAI
S4oom suit
filed (N. Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4. A lawyer hired by leaders of the Buddhist movement in South Vietnam has filed a SUS4OOm suit in the Federal Court in San Francisco, seeking damages from Lieu-: tenant William Calley and the United States Govern- < ment. A lawyer, Mr Paul Narkin, said today that 425 civilians were massacred at My Lai, and while national attention had been focused on the man convicted of 22 of the killings, the 57 survivors of that murder spree had gone unaided. Mr Narkin noted that I Calley was serving a 20-year term by living in his own apartment, with a telephone, a television set, and a girl friend who was allowed to visit him whenever she wanted to. “That is not how the My Lai survivors are living,” said the lawyer. “Imagine sleeping on a bamboo mat, eating breakfasts of rice and fish and then working 12 hours a day in the rice fields. Their’s is a hard life made even more difficult by the anguish over loved ones killed in the massacre."
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 19
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