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title: He Who Sows the Wind Shall Reap the Storm
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/he-who-sows-wind-reaps-storm-tan-phuoc-khanh-1967/
description: A landscape sheet reports that on 22 February 1967 Viet Cong fired into a crowd in Tan-Phuoc-Khanh village and killed civilians.
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Photographs of a wounded child on a hospital table and of two dead men lying on the ground, presented as victims and as killed fighters, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![He Who Sows the Wind Shall Reap the Storm, 1967 US poster: A landscape sheet reports that on 22 February 1967 Viet Cong fired](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/he-who-sows-wind-reaps-storm-tan-phuoc-khanh-1967.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/he-who-sows-wind-reaps-storm-tan-phuoc-khanh-1967.jpg)

# He Who Sows the Wind Shall Reap the Storm

A landscape sheet reports that on 22 February 1967 Viet Cong fired into a crowd in Tan-Phuoc-Khanh village and killed civilians, and that two of those responsible were killed five days later by the security forces. Photographs show a protest march with a banner, an injured girl named as a victim, two dead men named as Viet Cong, and a general addressing a crowd. The tell is the proverb headline over a sequence of victims, march and retribution, which sets the attack, the community response and the reprisal in one frame.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
KẺ GIEO GIÓ THÌ GẶT BÃO

TỪ THÁNG SÁU 1966, XÃ TÂN-PHƯỚC-KHÁNH ĐƯỢC QUÂN ĐỘI VIỆT-NAM VÀ CHÍNH QUYỀN TRỰC TIẾP GIÚP ĐỠ NÊN ĐÃ SỐNG NHỮNG NGÀY YÊN VUI. ĐỒNG BÀO ĐÃ CÙNG NHAU XÂY DỰNG THÔN ẤP, NHÀ CỬA, ĐƯỜNG NGÕ ĐỀU KHANG TRANG. NHƯNG BỌN VIỆT CỘNG SỢ HÃI TRƯỚC NẾP SỐNG TỰ DO VÀ THỊNH VƯỢNG CỦA NHÂN DÂN VÌ ĐỜI SỐNG TỰ DO VÀ THỊNH VƯỢNG CỦA ĐỒNG BÀO CHỨNG TỎ SỰ THẤT BẠI NẶNG NỀ CỦA CỘNG SẢN. CHÍNH VÌ THẾ NÊN NGÀY 22-2-67 VC ĐÃ LÉN VỀ XÃ TÂN-PHƯỚC KHÁNH XẢ SÚNG BẮN VÀO ĐÁM ĐÔNG GIẾT HẠI MỘT SỐ LƯƠNG DÂN VÔ TỘI. NĂM NGÀY SAU, 2 TÊN TRONG SỐ NHỮNG TÊN VC KHÁT MÁU ĐÃ BỊ CƠ QUAN AN NINH HẠ SÁT.

[banner:] CƯƠNG QUYẾT TRỪNG TRỊ NHỮNG TÊN VIỆT CỘNG KHÁT MÁU

Đồng bào cùng với các cấp Quân Chính đã biểu tình lên án bọn VC tàn ác giết hại thường dân vô tội.

Những tên VC gieo gió thì phải gặt bão. Chúng đã đền tội ác tại ranh xã Vĩnh Trường và Tân Phước Khánh. Hình trên là xác 2 tên Nguyễn Văn Chăng, Huyện ủy viên VC và Nguyễn Văn Rô, đội viên 6/62 VC.

Thiếu Tướng Tư Lệnh Sư đoàn 5 kiêm Tư Lệnh khu 32 chiến thuật nguyện truy sát cho bằng được những tên Cộng nô đã gây ra tội ác, để đem lại an ninh cho thôn xã.

Em Nguyễn thị Sẳng, một trong những nạn nhân bị Việt Cộng sát hại.

[banner:] HÀNH ĐỘNG ... ĐẠI DÂN LÀNH CỦA VC

SP.1794
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
HE WHO SOWS THE WIND SHALL REAP THE STORM

Since June 1966, Tan-Phuoc-Khanh village, directly helped by the Vietnamese army and the authorities, has lived peaceful, happy days. The people together have built the hamlets, houses and lanes, all spacious and neat. But the Viet Cong are afraid of the people's free and prosperous way of life, because the free and prosperous life of the people proves the heavy failure of the communists. For this reason, on 22-2-67 the V.C. sneaked into Tan-Phuoc-Khanh village and fired into the crowd, killing a number of innocent civilians. Five days later, 2 of the bloodthirsty V.C. were shot dead by the security forces.

[banner:] Determined to punish the bloodthirsty Viet Cong

The people together with civil and military officials demonstrated to condemn the cruel V.C. who killed innocent civilians.

Those V.C. who sowed the wind must reap the storm. They have paid for their crimes at the border of Vinh Truong and Tan Phuoc Khanh villages. Above are the bodies of 2 men, Nguyen Van Chang, V.C. district committee member, and Nguyen Van Ro, member of the 6/62 V.C.

The Major General commanding the 5th Division and the 32nd Tactical Zone vowed to hunt down without fail the communist slaves who committed the crimes, to bring security to the villages.

The child Nguyen Thi Sang, one of the victims killed by the Viet Cong.

[banner, partly illegible:] [illegible] ... of the V.C.

SP.1794
```

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the Vietnamese printed text, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; a few diacritics are faint at this resolution. The second banner in the lower right photograph is partly hidden and is marked [illegible]; the rendering of 'Cộng nô' is 'communist slaves' as printed.

[← Happy Hoi Chanh in An Xuyen (Những người hồi chánh tại Ba Xuyên)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/happy-hoi-chanh-an-xuyen-1967/) [Hồi chánh có nghĩa là trở về cuộc sống an vui thoải mái (To Rally Means Returning to a Comfortable, Happy Life) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hoi-chanh-means-comfortable-life-1967/)

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