"Mad Minutes" "What we call the Vietnam War is called the U.S. War by the Vietnamese people" "What we recall as 'the collapse of Saigon' is recalled as the national liberation" "A war doesn't always give the same experiences and memories to all people" "Here, we see different memories of different people" "Vihn Xuan Hamlet, Phu Yen Province" "What is this hollow for?" "It's a ground zero" "The hole surely was made by B-52" "Villagers were buried here during the massacre" "Gunfire began from over there and bullets rained into this bomb hole" "What happened to the dead bodies after the slaughter?" "Did bereaved families take the bodies back?" "No, the bodies were abandoned as they were soldiers didn't allow access" "Then they burned down all the houses in town" "Are the victims bodies still remained here?" "Yes, their remains are still here" "Victims of the massacre were buried in this hole together" "Villagers gather here to hold a joint memorial service on every Feb. 9 by the lunar calendar" "As far as I know the Korean soldiers came to Vietnam as mercenaries for the U.S." "The U.S. hated communist regimes and wanted to destroy them all" "And Americans viewed all Vietnamese people as Viet Cong (VC)s" "The Tactical Guide for the Korean Soldiers Whoever in our sight is a Viet Cong (VC)" "How many in your family died during the massacre?" "Eight, My mother" "Phan Van Ca (72), A survivor of the 1969 massacre in Binh Duong Hamlet my wife my younger brother and my five children" "Le Thanh Nghi (55)." "A survivor of the 1969 massacre in Binh Duong Hamlet" "my father's sister" "my sister-in-law, two nephews, my paternal aunt" "and her child" "Sixteen" "I lost my wife" "Phan Loi (78), A survivor of the 1969 massacre in Binh Duong Hamlet" "I lost my wife and two son" "along with her four children" "my little sister" "and her seven children" "I have a nephew who survived the massacre but I don't know where he is now" "In fact, no one is left in my family" " Did a lot of Korean soldiers come then?" " Many, indeed" "They visited us last year and two years ago" "No, I mean during the war" "Oh, I see." "During the war there were too many soldiers" "They were countless" "There were so many that it seemed like a drove of ducks in a river" "Pham Thi Bui (80), A survivor of the 1966 massacre in An Vinh Hamlet" "They crossed the river and called on every house in the village asking something, but we couldn't understand" "We just begged for life, without saying a word" "Had the Korean soldiers come here before the massacre?" "Yes, they came to our village often before the massacre" "They even killed several villagers" "They came to the village on the eve of the massacre" "On that day the soldiers looked around the village and just left" "But on the following day" "they came back in military gears and fired machine guns blindly at the villagers" "We would have hidden into underground tunnels if we had known" "It was horrible" "We had no place to hide ourselves" "We would not have had to run away if the visitors were as gentle as you" "There was a horrible slaughter in 1966" "The U.S. Army brought Korean soldiers to the Nong-Dak airport" "Tran Van Hoa (65), A survivor of the 1965 massacre in Vung Tau Hamlet" "We knew it only from hearsay" "We didn't know then the soldiers were Korean" "At that time, women stayed in the village while men were away" "In the following morning, soldiers appeared on the sand hill over there" "At the sight of the soldiers Vietnam partisans fired at them several times" "From the sound we thought a battle would start" "Not long after the gunshots armed soldiers came to our village" "They killed whatever came into their sight Kids, adults, or whatever" "Almost all people staying in the village were killed in that morning" "Korean soldiers marched toward the village along with the U.S. Army" "On their way to the village a combat broke out at, Song-Dam" "Pham Dinh Son (66), A survivor of the 1966 massacre in Kim Tai Hamlet" "During the fight, a Korean soldier died" "Then the Korean soldiers drove the villagers into a rice paddy and killed them all while burning their houses" "Villagers were innocent but soldiers didn't think so" "Words said that the Korean fighters were marching in" "So partisans got geared up for combats" "Villagers assumed a war to break out" "We had been robbed of our property by soldiers before and that was why we were getting ready to protect ourselves from the pillagers" "That was our wild guess based upon the past experiences" "Partisans came and so did soldiers and soldiers hod come here but nothing ever changed our routines before" "Yet, it was that day when Korean soldiers burst into our village" "Kim Tai Hamlet, Binh Dinh Province" "Vung Tau Hamlet, Phu Yen Province" "Tuy Bo Hamlet, Quang Nam Province" "There were stone slabs of hatred at the entrance of every village we visited" "An Vinh Hamlet, Binh Dinh Province" "The Tactical Guide for the Korean Soldiers Kill them all, burn them all, destroy them all." "On the day of the massacre my little brother and I were heading to the neighborhood to play Bui Thi Nong (46), A survivor of the 1966 massacre in Xom Soi Hamlet" "As I saw a lot of Korean soldiers I rushed back home with my brother Bui Thi Nong (46), A survivor of the 1966 massacre in Xom Soi Hamlet" "Among the soldiers, one was from our neighborhood who interpreted for them" "The soldiers told the villagers to gather to one place in the village" "The Korean soldiers along with the U.S. army began to raid on our village again Pham Dinh Son (66), A survivor or of the 1966 massacre in Kim Tai Hamlet" "They came to our village and searched every house" "In the meantime a soldier took a girl in my neighborhood and demanded her tell the location of the underground runnels" "But she resisted answering" "As she refused to give them the information they started beating her" "So she told them several places" "There were two or three partisans in one of the tunnels" "A partisan threw a hand grenade out of the tunnel and a couple of Korean soldiers got injured" "All the villagers were forced into the site of the slaughter and five of my family members were there, too" "The site was called Kim Dai." "That was the place where a Korean soldier died" "The soldiers crammed the villagers into a house (and set fire to it)" "At the sound of the hand grenade of a partisan a soldier picked up his gun and began to fire randomly at villagers" "It began as sporadic shots but soon became rampant" "Villagers' hands were tied on their backs later on" "It was fortunate, though that my wife's hands were not tied firmly probably because she was the last in line and had a child next to her" "Then the Korean soldiers threw three or four hand grenades on to gathering the roped villagers" "The following explosions killed almost every people inside and my wife was stuck under the collapsed wall of the burning house" "My mother told my two brothers and me to stay still as if we were dead" "The space was like this" "I lied down on the outer edge while my brothers lied down next to me" "I was too scared to speak or budge" "After regaining her senses back my wife looked around and found our kids all dead and my mother moaning in injury" "She panicked and didn't know what to do" "A splinter from the last shell hit and killed my two-year-old brother on the spot" "My wife struggled to untie her hands hold our baby in the arms and tried to come out" "The house was almost burnt down by the time" "The Korean soldiers were outside the building preparing to fire at anybody who came out" "A woman went out and got shot to death My wife couldn't move an inch at the scene" "I was about to cry looking at my dead brother but I had to swallow it as my mother told me we would die too if I cry" "After quite a while a survived neighbor and my wife found a tunnel inside the house by the time the flames further spread" "That was an emergency tunnel My wife and the man hid inside the tunnel" "After killing the villagers the soldiers began to burn houses" "Sparks from the burning rice straw roof were so hot" "Pillars afire fell to the entrance of the tunnel my wife hid in" "They almost got killed" "Trees were burning right above the tunnel" "The man hiding with my wife was in better shape so he managed to get out" "My wife asked for help but the man ran off alone in fear" "The fire was snarling around them" "We would have died if the spark fell on us Fortunately, they didn't" "In a low tone, I told my mother" "'Mom, my legs are burning hot with the sparks falling on me,'" "After my mother made sure that the Korean soldiers disappeared behind bamboo thickets she escaped the place with us" "When we neared a cowshed the soldiers spotted us and fired in our direction" "My son's stomach inflated from inhaling too much of smoke in the tunnel" "She thought, 'I would still be dead here so I need to get out somehow,'" "So she escaped the tunnel holding onto the burning trees" "The soldiers shot at those who were running off" "We hid ourselves in a nearby cowshed herself shot in the shoulder" "Fortunately, the Korean soldiers left believing no one was alive" "My wife saw my mother creeping out of the burning house and ran to her" "But my mother died in the yard" "While lying low on the floor in the stable ants bit me so much that I couldn't bear" "When convinced that no one was alive the Korean and the U.S. soldiers left" "In the meantime my wife walked slowly away from there and found an underground tunnel where she took refuge in again" "Giving a watchful look around my mother took my brother and me and ran toward the place with Lark trees" "With large leaves, the trees offered a safe haven for us in their shades" "In the following morning our child was crying in hunger" "So my wife risked her life in venturing out" "Right at the moment, a Korean soldier walking by, spotted my wife" "The man told her out, but holding a dying baby and injured badly, she couldn't" "He threatened to shoot her if she didn't hurry" "She was so frightened and finally came out of the tunnel carrying our baby" "The Korean soldiers told the villagers to bring my wife and son back home" "Hiding behind the trees, we could see a couple of injured people crawling around and others all dead" "The people on the move received another shower of shots" "It was terrible" "It began to rain the afternoon when we still remained in hiding behind the trees" "I belonged to the 27th echelon when I took off to Vietnam on December 31, 1970" "Chung, Moo-sik (51) a war veteran who served the Vietnam War from December 1970 to January 1972" "It looked calm when I arrived at Vietnam" "Da Nang Bay seemed so peaceful to me to smell the war" "It was when I got off the boat and rightly got on board of a truck where" "I was distributed with a machine gun and a ball cartridge that I felt myself in the battlefield" "I went there in early October in 1966 and came back home in early March in 1967" "Kim, Young-man (58) a war veteran who served the Vietnam War from October 1966 to March 1967" "My stay in Vietnam was quite short About 5 months" "When I was first assigned with a field operation I met my seniors" "They had black sun-burnt faces with only their eyes shining" "I cringed at their ferocious eyes" "On a mission we went out to search the field and found a tunnel" "We threw a colored gas bomb into a runnel and if a blue smoke flew up over the grass we knew there was a hole" "In that procedure we captured three VCs alive" "Senior comrades asked me to do..." "on the VCs tied up saying that" "I could become more dauntless" "If his eyes were closed or covered I would have been able to do it" "But how could I hurt him when he looked at me with his eyes wide open?" "I couldn't do that to a human being" "So I closed my eyes instead and ended up stabbing him in his thigh" "Comrades in arms are closer to each other than their family" "Our bond feels so strong" "Seeing someone hurt or kill my brother or sister in my face will boil my blood in rage and vengeance" "That is what military is all about, That's it" "That's what provokes us" "That is why, in a war, soldiers kill facing each other and breed another revenge" "I became violent in an operation whose name I don't remember" "It was such a long time ago" "In scouting my close fellow stepped on a booby trap and his body got crushed into pieces before me" "I collected his remains and wrapped them around with my poncho and sent it somewhere" "I couldn't think straight at the moment" "I questioned myself why should we leave home and die here for nothing and get hurt?" "I had to survive" "I had to obey the instructions in order to defend the freedom" "Since then I changed" "I began to shoot and kill whatever came into my sight" "I was losing control as I saw blood" "I believe that war starts with enmity" "We all knew by then that the war was not initiated by anti-Communist education" "Anti-Communist idea was infused into our mind" "We must prevent the world from Communization" "We must advocate world peace and freedom" "Yet no amount of mental education could let us believe that" "A penny in our pockets felt more precious for us than freedom and peace in the world" "We didn't realize how much freedom and peace were precious because we never knew what freedom and peace were" "What freedom and peace would we have experienced in the 1960s?" "If there were 100 VCs and 500 civilians in a village we saw them all as VCs" "A couple of VCs are enough to make the whole village a den of VCs" "Then, the village became our instant target for demolition" "Sacrifice of civilians followed as a natural consequence" "We just had no choice but to obey orders" "Now, I can say that we could tell VCs from civilians if we were willing to" "We destroyed the whole villages once and for all We even killed newborns" "Babies could not be VCs, couldn't they?" "What did we kill them for?" "Who in the world would believe a baby to be a Viet Cong?" "No one, They were just civilians" "We were misguided after all" "There should have been a second thought but it was wrong that there was none" "It was because those who called all the shots..." "There were some incidents a little before I returned home for injury" "It was when I was leaving the battlefield" "At the very moment" "I was leaving the battle line forever I began to look back on what I had done there" "All things I had done looked like a hellish nightmare" "What on earth have I done so far?" "How could I have done that?" "I couldn't believe myself at first" "Afterwards I thought a lot to understand myself" "I had to find an excuse to justify what I had done" "I had to think over and over again to know what drove to me to that" "Nothing was on the right track" "Even my personal life changed to the extent of no return" "For as little time as several months I became a totally different person who was foreign even to myself" "I couldn't figure out what changed myself to become a stranger in such a short period of time" "I couldn't understand for long time" "Korean soldiers' military base in Ninh Hoa District, Vietnam" "The Tactical Guide for the Korean Soldiers Any house with an underground tunnel is a home to VCs" "Tombs of the massacre victims in Tuy Bo" "Nguyen Thi Nhi (91), A survivor of the 1967 massacre in Tuy Bo Hamlet" "Where are they from?" "Where are they from?" "Saigon?" "No, we're from Korea" " No, we're from Korea" " Huh, huh From South Korea..." "Pham Thi Bui (80), a survivor of the 1966 massacre in An Vinh Hamlet I lost my sight on an eye from a gunshot" "The other eye is not well either even after spent 1 million Dong on a surgery" "During the massacre, I had an arm bone broken and three bullets lodged in my side" "The bullets got stuck into the side slightly Otherwise, I must have died" "I bandaged my broken arm but the arm became warped because the broken bones were not set right" "I'm sick and have no money to buy rice Life is so tough for me" "I turned eighty already" "And I will just hold on to the last of my breath" "Even rising to my feet hurts me I'm helpless me" "Your visit reminds me of the woeful memories" "Recollection of my mother wets my eyes" "My mother and I were hidden in a tunnel" "before soldiers shouted to us to get out" "My mother told me" "'You stay here.'and went out when a soldier shot her" "My mother died instantly in a sitting posture on the entrance to the tunnel" "South Korea" "Massacre(s)" "Enmity" "Our beloved children" "One hundred and forty five women and senior villagers were killed by unvirtuous intruders" "Engraved deep in our mind" "Mercenaries from South Korea on February 26, 1966 under the leadership of the U.S...." "The list of those who were burnt to death on January 9, 1966" "Middle name for women" "Korean soldiers fired at people wherever they went" "Two to three thousand villagers were killed in just three villages" "Villagers living near Quang-I were wiped out" "Even women and children were shot down." "The U.S. soldiered didn't go that far" "but Korean mercenaries were merciless and cold-blooded in killing" "The Tactical Guide for the Korean Soldiers Catch the VCs by choking civilians as we fish by draining the lake dry" "I have only a dim memory of my parents." "Images of them came on my mind once in a while, but I don't remember what they looked like" "I miss my parents badly when I'm alone and weary" "I was about four at the time of the massacre" "I didn't know what was happening then since I got injured and passed out" "I had my head injured." "Right, here" "I lost my senses and didn't know what happened" "I found myself at the Hoi-An hospital when I collected my mind" "But I didn't know who took me to the hospital" "When I returned to my senses I missed my parents so badly" "After being treated I left the hospital and became all by myself" "In my childhood I traveled from on place to another" "I didn't know then where I was from and who my parents were" "I shed tears when I saw families of others" "I bewailed my misfortune of having no parents when other kids had." "Over time, though" "I consoled myself by thinking that I would do my best through my life" "I have met some people who offered me food and bed at their home in sympathy" "I was sad to be ignorant of my hometown and my parents since my childhood" "It was when I attended the opening ceremony of Stone Slabs of Hatred in Ha-Mi hamlet that I came to know of my origin" "As I knew how my parents and brothers died I fell into shock and cried" "I felt myself unfairly victimized and my heart sank so I wailed myself out" "I cried thinking of my parents" "Yet, I didn't remember the faces of my own parents" "I have a dream which is to work hard and save enough money to hold a decent memorial service for my parents on a well-decorated altar in a nice house" "I'm a daughter, but I'm an only child alive" "I want to hold a real modest memorial service someday" "The altar in the current use is way too small" "Korean soldiers were short and hot-tempered" "It seemed quite easy for them to kill several villagers in revenge they lost one or two fellows to VCs' attacks" "The Tactical Guide for the Korean Soldiers A kid makes a good spy" "Le Dinh Muk (46), A survivor of the 1968 massacre in Phong Nhi-Phong Nut At that time my father worked for a U.S. military base" "A day before the massacre my father asked us to come see him at the base" "Three out of four brothers came to visit my father while my youngest brother stayed home with my mother" "We could save our lives because we were with my father" "It was fortunate that my youngest brother was found alive at the site of massacre" "Do you have memories of your mother who died when you were little?" "Of course, I do" "Memories of my mother in my childhood still live on my mind" "Before the massacre, my mother used to tell used to say" "'Who will take care of my guys if I die during war?" "'" "I con never forger what my mother said ever since I lost her to the massacre" "I used to think it was inevitable for civilians to be sacrificed by gunshots or bombs in a state of hostilities" "Yet the tragic event occurred to our village in 1968 had no semblance of what I used to think" "My families and my relatives were killed by the incident and I felt it was such a inhumane and barbarous war I never imagined of in my life" "In Korean TV shows Korean people look the same as the Vietnamese" "They are conscientious and so are people in the U.S. Europe, and in Asia" "We feel pity even on livestock when they fall prey to our necessity" "Then what kind of people could commit such an atrocity without hesitation?" "It was so cruel" "I will hate them until my death" "Let's say that innocent people can be sacrificed when a country is in a conflict" "But that was not the case in our village" "It was unimaginable that the soldiers threw hand grenades to a gathering of villagers fired at them to death and threw the dead bodies into the fire" "They were cold-blooded and merciless" "They were like beasts" "I was too young to know well of the massacre but my heart broke when my brothers told me about the incident" "They told me that I was suckling at my mothers breast when..." "Le Dinh Mang (35), A survivor of the 1968 massacre in Phong Nhi-Phong Nut" "Whenever my big brother talks about my mother" "my heart sinks" "I can only picture my mother in my mind with the help of photos of her" "It's nice of you to have interests and visit here but talking of the past hurts me" "And yet, I want my mother to live forever in my memory" "While holding a memorial service I hit upon the idea" "What would have happened to me if I cried aloud as others at that time?" "I would not be here talking to you, then" "I was lucky to survive" "A village map of Hoa Dong records of slaughters committed by the Korean soldiers from 1966 to1967" "In January 1966 28th regiment of Maengho Unit" "In 1966 Touchdown of the Korean soldiers" "Villagers were dragged here" "Thirty villagers were thrown into the wells after being killed" "They moved to a guard post of the Korean soldiers with 13 captured children 13 children were killed in captivity" "This map was drawn in 1978 12 years after the massacre based upon the testimony of a survivor Nguyen Noc Chau" "This map is preserved in the Phu-Yen Province museum currently" "People tend to believe" "Kim, Young-man." "Chairman of the Solidarity of Hope For a Compassionate Community" "But I don't think so" "The soldiers who were involved in the massacre were just unfortunate to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time" "They were just positioned in there by chance during their military service not because they committed horrendous crimes such as murders, or rapes" "They just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time" "It could happen to anybody" "For this reason, I think it is absurd for a veteran to say I did that or I didn't do that" "It would be wrong if someone say I didn't do such a thing" "Then he must be lucky" "I would tell him 'You were so lucky not to do that', I did" "And because of what I did I have lived in such agony and suffered ever since then having none to talk to" "But this kinds of men are never cruel by nature" "They were just unfortunate soldiers" "The aftereffect screwed up the people" "With sort of a fear of talking" "I've got much better now but we feel irritated when people approach" "We have scruple's about meeting other people" "Even after I returned home" "I felt dizzy on seeing something red like blood" "I got giddy when I saw a dog ran over by a car or people bleeding in fight" "I had a nervous breakdown and was seized with a panic" "Living like that, I stay in Ma-San during ten years" "In 2001, I visited the region where I took part in the operation in Vietnam during the war" "On my reflection" "I regret what I did at peaceful villages and sometimes I feel mad at the government" "Why did the government pick me up and send me there and make me to do such atrocities?" "I must not be alone in blaming the government" "Everyone who was dispatched there and took on the bloody operations would have blamed the government" "Repentance" "Why did the government send me there and ruin my life?" "Whatever means they depend on whether they be stones, bats, or" "the state-of-the-art weaponry wars are the same in nature" "and the last thing humanity should engage" "Yet the more the world is civilized the more it is tempted to wage war" "although people have tasted enough of brutality in wars" "I cannot avoid questioning myself why the world repeats the brutalities and why wars become more vicious over time" "Self-questioning never stop in my head" "It is like a hopeless puzzle" "What makes humanity to enjoy wars?" "Why do wars never end although wars make more people hurt" "and sacrificed rather than glorious and prosperous" "What allows such destructive wars to repeat endlessly instead of self-destroy?" "Sang-hyun have you met him?" "Bae, Sang-hyun a member of the Solidarity of Hope For a Compassionate Community" "He left for Iraq to dedicate to the anti-war and peace initiative" "Take good care of Sang-hyun" "We all need help from each other" "Sang-hyun might be your younger brother's age" "Actually I may need to depend on him myself" "I believe that Sang-hyun can be helpful since hes been there before" "Sure, he is, I feel relieved to be with him He Knows Better than I do" "He is a big help to you, No doubt" "Sang-hyun has gone through special experiences as well" "Why don't we take off?" "Sure, It's time to board Go check in" "Sang-hyun be sure to act with prudence this time" "I believe in you" "Keep in touch wherever you go" "I'll try to send to a laptop computer soon if I can find someone going there" "Take care of yourself and bye" "Take care" "Passport and a boarding pass, please" "The first unit of over 300 soldiers took off to Iraq in the early this morning" "Korean soldiers got on a chartered plane heading toward Iraq in early this morning" "The 326-member advance unit of Korean soldiers who are leaving this morning include 236 engineers and 90 medical staff" "Another 327 engineers will leave for Iraq next week" "When the 20-member advance unit included, the number of Korean soldiers dispatched to Iraq will be totaled at 673" "An important thing is that the U.S. invaded Vietnam" "Since the U.S. could not win the war it involved the Korean soldiers" "Asian people knew how to fight against each other" "The Tactical Guide for the Korean Soldiers A friendly fire is better than a miss" "How is she doing now?" "We heard that she fainted" "Nguyen Lap (50), A survivor of the 1968 massacre in Ha My Hamlet" "My mother collapsed on a pile of firewood on her way to the rest room which is behind the house" "I missed her shrieking" "My daughter heard my mother and told me 'Dad, grandma fell down,'" "I was astonished to find my mother lying down" "She looked like dying shortly" "I carried my mother to inside the house gave her CPR and warmed her body" "When she seemed to gain her senses back I called and asked a doctor at a clinic to come" "She got better after injected with a shot and taking medicine" "She out to greet you although she's not fully recovered, yet" "Were it not for you she would not be able to get up" "Are you feeling any better, now?" "I feel much better now." "Sometimes I feel fine and sometimes feel fatigued" "I have very poor eyesight" "I used to have good eyes, but toxic bombs that the U.S. soldiers left behind at war deteriorated my sight" "Before, I had good sight and could do everything" "It began with a eye and over time both eyes have got weakened" "I went to a hospital and the doctor said he could not help since my eyes were hurt from the toxic bombs" "Fragments got into my body during the war They didn't kill me but still hurt me" "Are the fragments still remained in you body?" "Not any more I had a surgery to pick them out" "In aging, I got contracted with diseases" "Suffering severely from arthritis I cant sit sometimes" "When I was healthy, I could make my living" "But I couldn't do anything but lying down in a room as I got sickened" "I felt too exhausted" "There's no other way but to sustain my life in agony" "I'm not the only one in sickness" "My son and two of my grandsons are not in good health, either" "When thinking that my family is not healthy and consequently poor my body feels weaker and my heart sores" "I'll have to sell this house" "As far as I cant afford to buy medicines I have no choice but to sell the house" "I'm worried of my son and my grandsons" "Their living will become harder after I die My heart sinks when I think of that" "We only have sorrows with no hope I wish to die peacefully as if I fall asleep" "Don't say like that, mother" "We wish you live with us forever" "Thank you for visiting us" "Would you send us a copy of the film so that we can keep that as a souvenir?" "Bui Thi Nong (46), A survivor of the 1966 massacre in Xom Soi Hamlet" "Hoa Hiep Nam Elementary School" "My daddy loves me as I resemble my mommy." "My mommy loves me as I resemble my daddy" "Our family is in love with each other We miss each other when we are apart" "We are always happy when we are together" "I have a question" "Have you met those who attended the Vietnam War?" "Are they sorry for it?" "I don't understand how come they don't regret" "Over 80 cases of mass slaughters took place and 9,000 innocent lives were taken in five mid-Vietnamese provinces where the Korean soldiers operated during the Vietnam War" "The ones who don't remember the past will be condemned to live it again" "This documentary is dedicated to those who are living with memories and scars of the tragic war and those who were sacrificed to the war"