Ba Chúc massacre

Ba Chúc massacre
Part of the Cambodian genocide
Ba Chúc Tomb
Ba Chúc Ba Chúc (Vietnam)
Location	Ba Chúc, An Giang, Vietnam
Date	18–30 April 1978
Target	Vietnamese civilians
Attack type	Mass killing, massacre, ethnic cleansing, torture
Deaths	3,157 civilians
Perpetrators	Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge)
Motive	Anti-Vietnamese sentiment, Ethnic cleansing, Khmer ultranationalism

The Ba Chúc massacre (Vietnamese: Thảm sát Ba Chúc) was the mass killing of 3,157 civilians in Ba Chúc, An Giang province, Vietnam, by the Kampuchea Revolutionary Army (Khmer Rouge) from 18 to 30 April 1978. It was a spillover of the Cambodian genocide which also targeted Vietnamese people mainly in Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge took the local villagers to temples and schools to torture and kill them. The residents who fled to the mountains in the following days were also brutally slaughtered. Almost all the victims were shot, stabbed or beheaded.

The event is considered to be the catalyst for the Vietnamese decision to retaliate against Cambodia later that year, which would result in the overthrow of both the Khmer Rouge and its leader Pol Pot.