Victims and bereaved families of the alleged massacres of Vietnamese civilians by the Korean military during the Vietnam War filed a second petition with Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Thursday seeking a truth investigation. The Korean-Vietnamese Peace Foundation visited the TRC headquarters in downtown Seoul earlier in the day and submitted an application for a truth investigation into the alleged massacres in the 1960s on behalf of eight surviving victims and one bereaved family member. The foundation claimed that the massacres occurred in a village in Quang Nam Province in February 1968 and another in Quang Ngai Province in November 1966, killing 135 and 73 civilians, respectively. The second application came after the foundation's first was dismissed in May 2023 by the then second-term TRC, which stated that human rights violations against foreigners committed during the Vietnam War do not fall within its statutory mandate. The Vietnamese plaintiffs then filed an administrative lawsuit challenging the TRC's decision, but both the lower court and the appellate co