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The North Vietnamese Army set up provisional authorities shortly after capturing the city. The first thing they did was call all South Vietnamese soldiers, civil servants of all services, political party members, and college students, to report to the "revolutionary people's committee." Those who reported to the Communist-run committee were registered in control books and then released with promise of safety.
After a few days, they were called to report again, then all were sent home safe. During three weeks under NVA units' occupation, they were ordered to report to the communist committee three or four times. In the late half of January 1968, the US Marine Corps and the South Vietnamese infantry counterattacked and recaptured the city after weeks of fierce fighting.
During the Marine and ARVN attack, North Vietnam's forces rounded up those individuals whose names it had previously collected and had them executed or sent North for re-education .
In late February 1968, acting on reports by Vietnamese Communists and POWs, local South Vietnamese authorities found several mass graves. In each site, hundreds of bodies of the missing were buried. Most were tied to each other by ropes, electric wires or telephone wires. They had been shot or beaten or stabbed to death.
Many of the victims found were anti-communist Catholics who sought sanctuary in local churches. Others were apparently being marched off for political re-education but were shot when American or ARVN units came too close.
The mass grave s within Hue itself were largely of those who had been picked up and executed for various " enemy of the people" offenses. There is some doubt that the NVA/VC had planned all these executions beforehand but unquestionably it was the largest Communist purgeIn history and political science, to purge is to remove 'undesirable' people from a government, political party, profession, or from community/society as a whole, usually by violent means. Purges are often associated with the Stalinist and Maoist regimes. of the war.
Since AprilApril is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 30 days. Derived from the Latin aprilis either from the Latin word aperire which means "to open", probably referring to growing plants in spring, or from the Etruscan name Apru for Aphr 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i, the Vietnamese Communist government moved many families related to the victims out of Hue City. People in the city however, still commemorate them every year. Because the people are mingling the rites with Tet celebrations, Communist local authorities have no reason to forbid them.
The event was not covered very extensively in the western media, mostly because American troops were not involved. In November 1974, when a documentaryA documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. Among the most popular forms of documentary are: Documentary film Radio documentary Documentaries. film produced by South Vietnamese reporters about the Tet Offensive was shown to an American audience of more than 200 US Army officers in Fort Benning, GeorgiaFort Benning is a base facility of the United States military outside Columbus, Georgia. The base has a large basic training facility for infantry, and is home to the Infantry Training Brigade of the United States Army as well being the Army's foremost ai, almost none of the audience had ever heard of the full details of the atrocity. Many afterwards said that had they known the savage slaughter at the time, they would have acted differently while serving in Vietnam.
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