Chinese Atrocities poster, No. 5: Public Trial Crowd and Prisoners (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language photograph sheet numbered 5 with two photographs. The upper shows a large crowd in conical hats around a cleared space in a valley; the lower shows rows of prisoners with ropes around their arms and bowed heads kneeling behind a rope line before a seated crowd. Red captions say farmers accused of being landowners are being tried and that the prisoners are forced to bow while hearing the trial. The tell is fear-appeal through selected photographs.
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 6948983, 306-PPB-112e).
Text on the object
ໃນປະເທດຈີນຄອມມຸຍນິສ ຊາວນາທີ່ຖືກກ່າວຫາ ວ່າເປັນເຈົ້າຂອງທີ່ດິນ ກຳລັງຖືກພິຈາລະນາໂທດ. ພວກນັກໂທດເຫຼົ່ານີ້ ຖືກບັງຄັບໃຫ້ກົ້ມຫົວ ຂະນະຟັງການພິຈາລະນາ 5
In Communist China, farmers accused of being landowners are being tried. These prisoners are forced to bow their heads while listening to the trial. 5
Lao script in a stylised face; uncertain words are marked [illegible]. Sheet number printed in a white circle.
