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The [[Battle of Huế]] began on 31 January 1968, and lasted a total of 26 days. During the months and years that followed, dozens of [[mass grave]]s were discovered in and around Huế. Victims included men, women, children, and infants.<ref>{{cite web |website=The New Australian |issue=66 |volume=2 |date=16-22 February 1998 |title=Hue: the massacre the Left wants us to forget |access-date=4 July 2021 |first=Gerard |last=Jackson |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 May 1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980527013135/http://www.newaus.com.au/news29b.html |editor1-first=Gerard |editor1-last=Jackson |editor2-first=Charles |editor2-last=Murton |editor3-first=Qan Di |editor3-last=Huang |publication-place=[[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]] |editor4-first=Martin |editor4-last=Reider |url=http://www.newaus.com.au/news29b.html }}</ref> The estimated death toll was between 2,800 and 6,000 [[civilian]]s and [[prisoners of war]],<ref name="huemassacre"/><ref>{{Cite book |title=The Fifty-Year Wound |last=Leebaert |first=Lee |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |year=2003 |pages=352 }}</ref> or 5–10% of the total population of Huế.<ref>{{cite book |last=Turner |first=Robert F. |title=Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development |year=1975 |publisher=Hoover Institution Publications |isbn=978-0817964313 |page=251 }}</ref> The Republic of Vietnam ([[South Vietnam]]) released a list of 4,062 victims identified as having been either murdered or abducted.<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Civilians Massacred by the Communists During "Tet Mau Than" in Thừa Thiên Province and Huế City |url=https://www.vvfh.org/index.php/component/easyfolderlistingpro/?view=download&format=raw&data=eNpVULtuwzAM_BVCP1AbBdJWGdOhQwp0yB4wFm0TkCVDD1wnQdB_L2U5QxdRPN6RPKJuW_2IeqdV762hoPZRv2mVZ-vRxJIJQeVIodYrpFXzLA2ZYvqnPZ9XrGTvVepwopI2WpWwqygbtWfdVFEgO2Ma165Ce5kwRuwCxa1Nz5aebdpG5h45JvA9HHhhy-hcInxvEgOXO6SR4OCnKTvhRfjMgd1cMFwnSkLLcBrRATuJGeVhcvAT_MKuI0ADX1nEnO5tmfaqFd3S9ptNv7mk28zretVCWRpTwm6cyAn7sqIfogi0MF3rdcT54P1gxcbvH0hTeo8, |publisher=RVN |access-date=25 April 2014 |format=PDF }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=List of Civilians Massacred by the Communists During "Tet Mau Than" in Thừa Thiên Province and Huế City |url=https://www.vvfh.org/index.php/component/easyfolderlistingpro/?view=download&format=raw&data=eNpVULtuwzAM_BVCP1C7BZJWGdOhQwt0yB4wFm0TkCVDD1wnQdF_L2U5QxdRPN6RPKJuW_0T9U6r3ltDQR2i3muVZ-vRxJIJQeVIodYrpFXzKA2ZYvqnPZ9XrGSvVepwopI2WpWwqygbdWDdVFEgO2Ma165Ce5owRuwCxa1Nz5YebdpG5n5yTOB7OPLCltFF-NokBi53SCPB0U9TdsKL8J4DuwFOlISW4TSiA3YSM8rD5OA7-IVdR4AGPrKIOd2fy7QXreiWtt9s-s0l3WZe16sWytKYEnbjRE7YlxV9E0WghelaryPOB-8HKzZ-_1wwSLB6kA,, |publisher=RVN |access-date=25 April 2014 |format=PDF }}</ref> Victims were found bound, tortured, and sometimes [[premature burial|buried alive]]. Many victims were also clubbed to death.<ref>Kendrick Oliver, ''The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory'' (Manchester University Press, 2006), p. 27.</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=James |last=Minahan |chapter=South Vietnamese: Kinh; Gin; Jing; Ching; Annamese (Letter S) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zu5GpDby9H0C&pg=PA1761 |via=[[Google Books]] |volume=IV |editor1-first=James |editor1-last=Minahan|access-date=4 July 2021 |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]] (Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.) |isbn=9780313316173 |title=Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World, Volume IV S-Z |year=2002 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zu5GpDby9H0C }}</ref><ref>Pierre Journod, "La France, les États-Unis et la guerre du Vietnam: l'année 1968", in ''Les relations franco-américaines au XX siècle'', edited by Pierre Melandri and Serge Ricard (L'Harmattan, 2003), p. 176.</ref>