--- title: Chieu Hoi Village, Resettlement Centre of the Hoi Chanh url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chieu-hoi-village-resettlement-1965-1969/ description: A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer Chieu Hoi poster (code SP-2097) shows five photographs of former Viet Cong ralliers making concrete blocks. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Chieu Hoi Village, Resettlement Centre of the Hoi Chanh [![Chieu Hoi Village, Resettlement Centre of the Hoi Chanh, 1965 US poster: A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer Chieu Hoi poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chieu-hoi-village-resettlement-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chieu-hoi-village-resettlement-1965-1969.jpg) # Chieu Hoi Village, Resettlement Centre of the Hoi Chanh A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer Chieu Hoi poster (code SP-2097) shows five photographs of former Viet Cong ralliers making concrete blocks, digging foundations and building twin-unit houses at a Chieu Hoi village in Vinh-Binh province, ending with two rallier families standing outside a finished house. The captions give measurements and say two families have already moved in. The tell is a selection of ordinary building work and smiling families offered as the whole picture of life after rallying. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese; Khmer) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` LÀNG CHIÊU-HỒI NƠI ĐỊNH-CƯ CỦA NGƯỜI HỒI-CHÁNH [Khmer text] ANH EM HỒI-CHÁNH THAM-GIA CÔNG TÁC THIẾT LẬP LÀNG CHIÊU-HỒI TẠI ẤP BẾN-CỎ, XÓM-TRẮNG THUỘC XÃ NGUYỆT-HÓA QUẬN CHÂU-THÀNH (VĨNH-BÌNH) ĐANG XÚC ĐẤT ĐẮP NỀN ĐỂ XÂY CẤT NHÀ Ở CỦA MÌNH. [Khmer text] NGƯỜI HỒI-CHÁNH ĐANG IN GẠCH BLOC ĐỂ DÙNG XÂY CẤT NHÀ Ở TẠI LÀNG CHIÊU-HỒI HIỆN ĐANG THIẾT LẬP. [Khmer text] ANH EM HỒI-CHÁNH ĐANG THỰC HIỆN VIỆC XÂY CẤT MỘT CĂN NHÀ. [Khmer text] HỒI-CHÁNH PHẠM-HỮU-THẠCH ĐANG THỰC-HIỆN CÔNG-TÁC XÂY CẤT MỘT CĂN NHÀ KIỂU SONG-LẬP, CỘT ĐÚC, LỢP TOLE, NỀN TRÁNG XI MĂNG, VÁCH GẠCH, MỖI CĂN SONG-LẬP RỘNG 8 THƯỚC VÀ 7 THƯỚC 2 TẤC. [Khmer text] NHÀ XÂY CẤT XONG ĐÃ CÓ 2 GIA-ĐÌNH NGƯỜI HỒI-CHÁNH ĐỊNH-CƯ VÀO Ở NGAY. TRÊN ĐÂY LÀ GIA-ĐÌNH CỦA HỒI-CHÁNH PHẠM-HỮU-THẠCH (mặt) VÀ GIA-ĐÌNH CỦA HỒI-CHÁNH LÊ-VĂN-BỐN (trái). [Khmer text] SP-2097 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` CHIEU-HOI VILLAGE, RESETTLEMENT PLACE OF THE HOI-CHANH [Khmer version of the title, not translated] The Hoi-Chanh brothers take part in setting up the Chieu-Hoi village at Ben-Co hamlet, Xom-Trang, Nguyet-Hoa village, Chau-Thanh district (Vinh-Binh), shovelling earth to raise the foundations for their own homes. A Hoi-Chanh is moulding concrete blocks to build houses in the Chieu-Hoi village now being set up. The Hoi-Chanh brothers are building a house. Hoi-Chanh Pham-Huu-Thach is building a twin-unit house, with cast columns, a corrugated-metal roof, cement-finished floor and brick walls; each unit is 8 metres by 7 metres 2 tac [about 7.2 m, as printed]. The finished house already has 2 Hoi-Chanh families settled in. Above are the family of Hoi-Chanh Pham-Huu-Thach (right) and the family of Hoi-Chanh Le-Van-Bon (left). SP-2097 ``` Khmer-script lines beneath each Vietnamese caption are not transcribed. In the last caption 'mặt' and 'trái' are printed as 'right/face' and 'left'; rendered 'right' and 'left'. The dimension '8 thước và 7 thước 2 tấc' is printed in traditional units and kept as printed. [← Chieu Hoi at Tay Ninh](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chieu-hoi-tay-ninh-1965-1969/) [Cholera →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cholera-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.