Chinese Atrocities poster, No. 2: Kneeling Prisoners and Dead (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language photograph sheet numbered 2, with two tilted photographs. The upper one shows riflemen aiming at a row of kneeling, bound people beside a river bed; the lower one shows bodies on the ground with armed men and officials standing nearby. A red caption between them describes those punished and those killed. The tell is fear-appeal built from selected photographs, with no dates, places or names given for the events shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- April 16, 1956
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, April 16, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948980, 306-PPB-112b).
Text on the object
ໃນຈຳນວນລົງໂທດທັງໝົດ ມີຜູ້ຍິງຄົນໜຶ່ງທີ່ຖືກຂ້າ [illegible] ພວກຄອມມຸຍນິສ [illegible] ເຂົາໄດ້ [illegible] ບໍ່ຮູ້ວ່າເປັນຕົ້ນໃນພາບນີ້ຢ່າງໃດ. 2
Among all those punished there was a woman who was killed ... [the rest of the caption is not reliably legible]. 2
Lao script in a stylised face; uncertain words are marked [illegible]. Sheet number printed in a white circle.
