Ba Chúc | |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Vietnam |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | An Giang |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Tri Tôn |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Total Km2: | 20.56 |
Population As Of: | 2003 |
Population Total: | 13122 |
Population Density Km2: | 638 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone Link: | Time in Vietnam |
Timezone: | Indochina Time |
Utc Offset: | +07:00 |
Ba Chúc is a town (thị trấn) of the Tri Tôn District of An Giang Province in Mekong Delta of Vietnam.
During the Vietnam War, the village came to the attention of American publics when it was revealed in The New York Times that civilians there had been forced by ARVN officers and their American advisers to remove landmines planted by Viet Cong and NVA units.[1]
In 1978 the village was the scene of the killing of an estimated 3,157 civilians by Khmer Rouge forces from neighbouring Cambodia in what became known as the Ba Chúc Massacre.[2]