The launch of a US-backed university during President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam last week was meant to symbolise reconciliation and the potential for the two nations to deepen their relationship.
But there has been a backlash against the decision to hand the chairmanship of Fulbright University Vietnam to a former US senator accused of involvement in a Vietnam war massacre.
Bob Kerrey, a former Democratic senator and governor of Nebraska, has expressed remorse about the 1969 raid on a Communist-controlled village in which his elite Navy Seal platoon killed at least 13 unarmed women and children. The attack was made public in 2001 following an investigation by CBS News and the New York Times.
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