The GVN Helps the Montagnard Communist Refugees in Darlac Province
A Vietnamese and Rhade (Ede) poster (code SP-993) says the government is giving relief to Montagnard and Kinh refugees who have fled Communist control in Darlac, showing the province chief and a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel handing out blankets, and a distribution of rice, salt, mosquito nets, blankets and pans. Named officials in uniform deliver goods to civilians in three photographs. The Rhade text repeats the Vietnamese message in the minority language of the target group.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government, for the South Vietnamese government (Darlac Province)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Enemy civilians
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity, Migration
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government, for the South Vietnamese government (Darlac Province). National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-7-993.
Text on the object
CHÍNH PHỦ CỨU-TRỢ ĐỒNG BÀO THƯỢNG TỴ NẠN CỘNG-SẢN TẠI DARLAC KNUK KNA ĐRU MĐUP MYƠR KƠ MNUIH BUÔN SANG KLAH ĐUE MỠNG PHUNG MKLIN. DÔK TI KDRIÊK CAR DAKLAK Mnuih buôn sang anak Cử Chiăng msẽ hŏng mnuih buôn sang Yuăn sơrăng dưl mâo klei đru mơng Knuk Kna tơdah hlei pô čiăng klah đuẽ sit mơng phung mklin dŏ dô leh anăn tui duah êlan klei êđap ênang. Aê dua asâr êa prăk Lê-văn-Thành, khua car Daklak truh tŏl asei mlei dôk mbhra mnơng mnhuă đru kơ mnuih buôn sang lăn knguư đuê kdê kơ phung roh klin ti anŏk dôk êjai buôn kram. Hruê bi mbha dŏ dô mâo : braih , hra , aban , gŏ čao đ.đ... brei kơ mnuih buôn sang yuăn êđê đuê kdê kơ phung roh klin ti anŏk dôk êjai. Aê dua asâr êa prăk IRELAND, khua kĕe bruă ling khan Daklak dôk mjơr dŏ dô đru mnuih buôn sang lăn kngưr đuê kdê kơ phung roh klin ĐỒNG BÀO THƯỢNG CŨNG NHƯ KINH ĐỀU ĐƯỢC CHÍNH PHỦ ÂN CẦN SĂN SÓC KHI HỌ NHẤT ĐỊNH THOÁT LY ÁCH CỘNG-SẢN ĐỂ TÌM TỰ-DO. Trung Tá Lê-văn-Thành, Tỉnh Trưởng tỉnh Darlac đang đích thân phát phẩm vật cứu trợ cho đồng bào thượng tỵ nạn Cộng-Sản tại trung tâm tạm-cư Buôn Kram. Buổi cấp phát phẩm vật gồm có: gạo, muối, mùng, mền, xoong chảo v.v... cho đồng bào kinh thượng tỵ nạn Cộng-Sản tại địa điểm tạm trú. Trung Tá Ireland, Cố Vấn Trưởng tại tiểu khu Darlac đang trao phẩm vật trợ giúp đồng bào thượng tỵ nạn Cộng-Sản. SP-993
THE GOVERNMENT RELIEVES THE HIGHLAND COMPATRIOTS TAKING REFUGE FROM THE COMMUNISTS IN DARLAC [Rhade-language text: not translated] The Highland as well as the Kinh compatriots are all kindly cared for by the Government when they decisively escape the Communist yoke to seek freedom. Lieutenant Colonel Le-van-Thanh, Province Chief of Darlac Province, personally distributing relief goods to the Highland compatriots taking refuge from the Communists at the Buon Kram temporary resettlement centre. The distribution of goods consisted of rice, salt, mosquito nets, blankets, pots and pans, etc., for the Kinh and Highland compatriots taking refuge from the Communists at the temporary shelter. Lieutenant Colonel Ireland, Senior Adviser at Darlac sector, handing over relief goods to Highland compatriots taking refuge from the Communists. SP-993
