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title: Communists Murder Village Farmers to Obtain Support by Intimidation
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/communists-murder-village-farmers-1965-1969/
description: A yellow English-language page headed 'Communists... murder village farmers to obtain support by intimidation' pairs a photographed typed form labelled
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photographs of a woman weeping beside a closed coffin and of a body in an open coffin, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Communists Murder Village Farmers to Obtain Support by Intimidation

A yellow English-language page headed 'Communists... murder village farmers to obtain support by intimidation' pairs a photographed typed form labelled a blank 'Death Sentence', a weeping woman beside a coffin, and a photograph of a body in an open coffin. Captions name two victims in Darlac Province, Y Prat and Nguyen Thanh, and attribute both killings to the Viet Cong. The tell is the pairing of grief imagery with a blanket claim of intimidation; the sheet gives no dates, sources or investigation for the killings or the form.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/)

## Text on the object

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

```
6

COMMUNISTS

...murder village
farmers to
obtain support
by intimidation.

Blank form "Death Sentence" by which any Viet Cong can sentence a civilian leader to death at his whim.

The VC bring grief and fear to widows.   Y Prat was killed by Viet Cong communists in Darlac Province.

Nguyen Thanh was killed by Viet Cong terrorists in Darlac Province.

[Typed Vietnamese form in the photograph, mostly illegible]
```

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