Oliver Stone visits My Lai massacre site to research Vietnam movie

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

HANOI (AFP) — Oscar-winning US filmmaker Oliver Stone Thursday visited the Vietnamese village of My Lai to research a movie about the infamous massacre there, one of the darkest chapters of the Vietnam War.

Stone -- who served as an infantryman in the conflict and later won best director Oscars for his war dramas "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July" -- said he wanted to see the "killing fields" for himself, state media said.

My Lai, located in central Quang Ngai province, is the hamlet where US soldiers went on a bloody rampage and killed up to 504 civilians, many of them unarmed women, children and elderly, on March 16, 1968.

Pham Thanh Cong, director of the My Lai Museum, said local people welcomed the planned movie project, which would serve as a...