--- title: Đây! Lối giải phóng của bọn Cộng Phỉ (This! The Liberation Way of the Communist Bandits) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/day-loi-giai-phong-cong-phi-1964/ description: Photo poster under the headline 'This! The liberation way of the Communist bandits'. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Đây! Lối giải phóng của bọn Cộng Phỉ (This! The Liberation Way of the Communist Bandits)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/day-loi-giai-phong-cong-phi-1964.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/day-loi-giai-phong-cong-phi-1964.jpg) # Đây! Lối giải phóng của bọn Cộng Phỉ (This! The Liberation Way of the Communist Bandits) Photo poster under the headline 'This! The liberation way of the Communist bandits'. Top: a wrecked passenger bus (a Viet Cong mine, 16 August 1964, four named passengers dead) and bodies in the Quang Tri hospital mortuary. Below: a photographed mass meeting at Trieu Thuong village on 18 August 1964 and the Quang Tri province chief accepting its resolution and calling on 'all circles' to wipe out the Communists. The tell: the label 'Cộng Phỉ' (communist bandits) in the headline, and a crowd shown standing in for public opinion. - **Date:** 1964 - **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war) - **Made by:** U.S. Information Agency (USIA), Press and Publications Service, Vietnamese-language photo poster for South Vietnam - **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america) - **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Johnson Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=johnson-administration) - **Leader:** [Lyndon B. Johnson](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=lyndon-b-johnson) - **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public) - **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize) - **Theme:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military) - **Event:** [Vietnam War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=vietnam-war) - **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) - **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure - **Source:** [U.S. National Archives (RG 306, U.S. Information Agency, NAID 6949308), via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C4%90%C3%A2y!_L%E1%BB%91i_Gi%E1%BA%A3i_Ph%C3%B3ng_c%E1%BB%A7a_b%E1%BB%8Dn_C%E1%BB%99ng_Ph%E1%BB%89_(This!_The_Way_of_Liberation_of_the_Communist_bandits).jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (U.S. government work, USIA record; Commons tag PD-USIA under 17 U.S.C. 105) U.S. Information Agency, 1964; National Archives and Records Administration, NAID 6949308, via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` ĐÂY! LỐI GIẢI PHÓNG CỦA BỌN CỘNG PHỈ Trên đường An-Đôn về thị xã Quảng-Trị, chiếc xe đò mang số TVD-152 trúng mìn Việt-cộng chiều ngày 16-8-64. 4 hành khách bị chết: ÔÔ. Hoàng-Dữ 67 tuổi, Hoàng-Huê 62 tuổi, Đoàn-Ngọc 40 tuổi, Đoàn-Đơn 50 tuổi. 3 người khác bị trọng thương gồm tài xế và 1 bà hành khách. Thi thể nạn nhân của Việt-cộng nằm tại nhà xác bệnh viện Quảng-Trị PHẢN ỨNG CỦA ĐỒNG BÀO ĐỊA PHƯƠNG, XÃ TRIỆU-THƯỢNG Đồng bào xã Triệu-Thượng cùng Đại diện Nghiệp đoàn Vận tải Quảng-Trị họp mét-tinh sáng ngày 18-8-64 lên án hành động man rợ của Việt-cộng. Tuyên đọc bản quyết nghị tỏ rõ thái độ của các đoàn thể dân chúng trước hành động côn đồ Cộng phỉ và thỉnh cầu Chính Phủ xử tử bọn Việt-cộng ác ôn và tay sai nằm vùng. Ông Tỉnh trưởng Quảng-Trị chấp nhận bản quyết nghị và kêu gọi toàn thể các giới tích cực diệt Cộng cứu quê hương. [banners in the photographs: partly legible, e.g. a banner reading '... ĐẶT MÌN SÁT HẠI ĐỒNG BÀO TẠI ... NGÀY 16-8-64'] [handwritten archival number at top right] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THIS! THE LIBERATION WAY OF THE COMMUNIST BANDITS On the road from An-Don to Quang-Tri town, bus number TVD-152 hit a Viet Cong mine on the afternoon of 16-8-64. 4 passengers were killed: Messrs. Hoang-Du, 67 years old, Hoang-Hue, 62, Doan-Ngoc, 40, Doan-Don, 50. 3 other people were gravely wounded, including the driver and 1 woman passenger. The bodies of the Viet Cong's victims lie in the Quang-Tri hospital mortuary REACTION OF THE LOCAL COMPATRIOTS, TRIEU-THUONG VILLAGE The people of Trieu-Thuong village together with representatives of the Quang-Tri Transport Union held a rally on the morning of 18-8-64 condemning the barbaric act of the Viet Cong. Reading out the resolution that makes plain the attitude of the people's organisations toward the thuggish act of the Communist bandits and petitions the Government to execute the vicious Viet Cong and their sleeper agents. The Quang-Tri province chief accepts the resolution and calls on all circles to actively wipe out the Communists and save the homeland. [banners in the photographs: partly legible, e.g. a banner reading '... LAYING MINES KILLING COMPATRIOTS AT ... ON 16-8-64'] [handwritten archival number at top right] ``` Read from enlarged crops of the 1280 px image; the captions are clear. 'ÔÔ.' is printed as shown and abbreviates 'Ông' (Mr.) in the plural. The text on the protest banners inside the photographs is partly out of focus and is given only in part. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader. [← Civil rights March on Washington, D.C.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/march-on-washington-reflecting-pool-1963/) [Laissez-Passer of the People's Republic of the Congo, Stanleyville (1964) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stanleyville-laissez-passer-lumumba-1964/) ## Using the same techniques - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (1791 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Exit Liberté a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the Farce of Egalité, at St. Cloud (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exit-liberte-buonaparte-gillray-1799/) (Nov 21, 1799 · Name-calling)