Vietnam accuses former U.S. Senator

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnam has accused former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey of crimes during the Vietnam War, saying Friday that families of villagers killed by his Navy team experienced "incomparable suffering and losses."

It was the first time Vietnam has publicly accused Kerrey of criminal activity. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh made the accusation in reaction to a revised account of the raid in Kerrey's new memoir.

Thanh did not specify what crimes Vietnam believed Kerrey had committed.

"Whatever Mr. Kerrey says cannot change the truth. Mr. Kerrey himself has admitted that he was ashamed of the crimes he committed," she said.
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