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title: Chieu Hoi Activities in Khanh Hoa
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chieu-hoi-activities-khanh-hoa-1965-1969/
description: A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1968) reports that Khanh Hoa province has received 574 ralliers since 1963, with weapons seized.
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# Chieu Hoi Activities in Khanh Hoa

A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1968) reports that Khanh Hoa province has received 574 ralliers since 1963, with weapons seized, enemy soldiers killed or captured and a Viet Cong district medical station destroyed through ralliers' guidance. Photographs show brick-making and hairdressing classes, medical care, political study and a rallier in a flower garland before a rack of captured rifles. The poster sets reward, welfare and the enemy's losses side by side as results of rallying.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
HOẠT ĐỘNG CHIÊU HỒI TẠI KHÁNH HÒA

Anh em hồi chánh được học nghề in gạch "Cinvaram".

Hồi chánh Ngô Thuyền đã chỉ dẫn tịch thu được 34 súng Mauser 5.000 viên đạn và 5 quả mìn chống chiến xa.

Đau ốm được Bác sĩ săn sóc và thuốc men đầy đủ.

Lớp học nghề hớt tóc.

TỪ NĂM 1963 ĐẾN NAY TỈNH KHÁNH-HÒA ĐÃ TIẾP NHẬN 574 HỒI CHÁNH, VŨ KHÍ GỒM CÓ 80 KHẨU ĐỦ LOẠI. MỘT SỐ HỒI CHÁNH ĐÃ HƯỚNG DẪN HÀNH QUÂN TỊCH THU ĐƯỢC 45 KHẨU SÚNG MAUSER, 5.000 VIÊN ĐẠN, 5 LỰU ĐẠN. BẮN CHẾT 14 TÊN VÀ BẮT SỐNG 17 TÊN CÁN BINH VIỆT CỘNG. PHÁ HỦY TOÀN BỘ BỆNH XÁ HUYỆN ỦY B-9 CỦA VIỆT CỘNG. TẠI TRUNG TÂM CHIÊU HỒI, ANH EM HỒI CHÁNH ĐƯỢC CHĂM SÓC CHU ĐÁO, ĐẦY ĐỦ LẠI ĐƯỢC HỌC CHÍNH TRỊ ĐỂ DỨT KHOÁT TƯ TƯỞNG, HỌC MAY CẮT, HỌC HỚT TÓC v.v...
544 HỒI CHÁNH ĐƯỢC HOÀN HƯƠNG VỀ SUM HỌP VỚI GIA ĐÌNH VÀ ĐỀU CÓ CÔNG ĂN VIỆC LÀM ĐỂ LẬP LẠI ĐỜI SỐNG TƯƠI ĐẸP ĐẦY HẠNH PHÚC.

Học tập để trao dồi kiến thức, và dứt khoát tư tưởng với Cộng Sản.

SP-1968
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
CHIEU HOI ACTIVITIES IN KHANH HOA

The rallier brothers are taught the trade of making "Cinvaram" bricks.

Rallier Ngo Thuyen guided the seizure of 34 Mauser guns, 5,000 rounds and 5 anti-tank mines.

When sick they receive a doctor's care and ample medicine.

Hairdressing trade class.

From 1963 until now Khanh-Hoa province has received 574 ralliers, with weapons totalling 80 pieces of all kinds. A number of ralliers guided operations that seized 45 Mauser guns, 5,000 rounds and 5 grenades, shot dead 14 and captured alive 17 Viet Cong soldiers, and destroyed the entire Viet Cong B-9 district committee infirmary. At the Chieu Hoi center the rallier brothers receive attentive and full care, and also study politics to make a clean break in their thinking, learn tailoring, hairdressing, etc.
544 ralliers were repatriated to be reunited with their families and all have jobs to rebuild a bright and happy life.

Study to exchange knowledge and make a definitive break in thinking with the Communists.

SP-1968
```

The word 'Cinvaram' is as printed; the sense is as given on the sheet (a brick-printing or brick-making trade).

[← Chiến thắng Tiền Giang 48/65 ngày 18-11-65 tại phía Tây Bắc Bến Tranh (Tien Giang 48/65 Victory, 18 November 1965, North West of Ben Tranh)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chien-thang-tien-giang-48-65-ben-tranh-1965/) [Chieu Hoi Center, the Friendly First Stop for Those Who Return to the National Just Cause →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chieu-hoi-center-first-stop-1965-1969/)

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