My Lai and Wounded Knee massacres were visually indistinguishable

Evidence

On the front page of one newspaper, editors placed two photographs side by side, each of a pile of bloody, mutilated bodies in a ditch. One was from My Lai in 1968, the other from the Wounded Knee army massacre of the Lakota in 1890. Had they not been captioned, it would have been impossible to tell the difference in time and place. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 484

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 484