Chinese Atrocities poster, No. 4: Farmers Tried before a Crowd (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language photograph sheet numbered 4 with two tilted photographs of a public gathering on a stony river bed. Men in conical hats sit in a crowd while armed men stand over a kneeling man in one and a kneeling woman or man in the other. The red caption says a man and a farmer are being tried by Communists who call them landowners and enemies of the government. The tell is fear-appeal aimed at Lao farmers, using selected photographs without dates or places.
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 6948982, 306-PPB-112d).
Text on the object
ຊາຍຄົນໜຶ່ງ ກັບຊາວນາຜູ້ໜຶ່ງ ກຳລັງຖືກພວກຄອມມຸຍນິສພິຈາລະນາໂທດ ຊຶ່ງເຂົາຫາວ່າຊາວນາພວກນີ້ ເປັນເຈົ້າຂອງທີ່ດິນ ແລະເປັນສັດຕູຂອງຣັຖບານຄອມມຸຍນິສ. 4
A man and a farmer are being tried for punishment by the Communists, who accuse these farmers of being landowners and enemies of the Communist government. 4
Lao script in a stylised face; uncertain words are marked [illegible]. Sheet number printed in a white circle.
