Historian and former U.S. State Department analyst Douglas Pike has called the Massacre at Huế one of the worst communist terrorist actions of the Vietnam War . Estimates of the losses in the massacre have been cited as high as 6,000 dead . The United States Army recorded as killed " 3800 killed in and around Huế , 2786 confirmed civilians massacred , 2226 civilians found in mass graves and 16 non Vietnamese civilians killed . " While some historians have claimed that the majority of these deaths occurred as the result of US bombing in the fight to retake the city , the vast majority of the dead were found in mass graves outside the city . Benjamin A. Valentino has estimated a total death toll of between 45,000 and 80,000 people between 1954 and 1975 from VC terrorism
Massacre at Huế
Massacre at Huế
Communist terrorism