Three photographs in particular have come to define the decade-and-a-half-long U.S. military intervention in Vietnam. They show the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk, burnt children in tears as they flee an aerial napalm attack, and the Saigon police chief executing a captive in the street.
Author: Ali Shehzad Zaidi
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Atoning for Vietnam
By: Ali Shehzad Zaidi
Winter 2015 (New Politics Vol. XV No. 2, Whole Number 58)
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