--- title: '"Liberation Activities" of the South Liberation Front (Hành động "Giải Phóng" của Mặt Trận Giải Phóng Miền Nam)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/liberation-activities-of-the-south-liberation-front-sp-838-1965/ description: A portrait sheet (code SP-838) pairs a photograph of a wrecked passenger vehicle with photographs of a wounded boy being tended and a patient being treated section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. "Liberation Activities" of the South Liberation Front **Content note:** A photograph of a wrecked bus and photographs of a wounded boy and injured patient being treated, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [!["Liberation Activities" of the South Liberation Front, 1965 US poster: A portrait sheet (code SP-838) pairs a photograph](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/liberation-activities-of-the-south-liberation-front-sp-838-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/liberation-activities-of-the-south-liberation-front-sp-838-1965.jpg) # "Liberation Activities" of the South Liberation Front (Hành động "Giải Phóng" của Mặt Trận Giải Phóng Miền Nam) A portrait sheet (code SP-838) pairs a photograph of a wrecked passenger vehicle with photographs of a wounded boy being tended and a patient being treated by two men in white. The text says a Thanh Van bus carrying passengers was hit by a Viet Cong mine on 17 September 1965, killing 11 including three women and two children, and asks whether this is not a policy of destruction, killing and wounding the innocent to bring mourning and ruin to innocent people. A casualty photograph and a rhetorical question carry the charge against the NLF. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` hành động "Giải Phóng" CỦA MẶT TRẬN GIẢI PHÓNG MIỀN NAM KHOẢNG 1 GIỜ TRƯA NGÀY 17-9-65, XE ĐÒ THANH-VÂN CHỞ ĐẦY HÀNH KHÁCH TỪ XÃ TÍN-ĐẠO VỀ RẠCH-GIÁ BỊ VIỆT-CỘNG GIỰT MÌN LÀM BỊ THƯƠNG VÀ CHẾT 11 NGƯỜI TRONG SỐ CÓ 3 ĐÀN BÀ VÀ 2 TRẺ EM. Hành động này nói lên gì ? Há không phải là chủ trương phá hoại, ...giết chóc và đả thương một cách vô nhân đạo để gây tang tóc điêu linh... ...cho người dân vô tội ? SP-838 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` the "Liberation" actions OF THE SOUTH LIBERATION FRONT At about 1 o'clock in the afternoon of 17-9-65, a Thanh-Van passenger bus packed with passengers travelling from Tin-Dao village to Rach-Gia was hit by a mine set off by the Viet Cong, wounding and killing 11 people, including 3 women and 2 children. What does this action say? Is it not a policy of destruction, ...of killing and wounding inhumanely to cause mourning and ruin... ...for innocent people? SP-838 ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering. The printed 'Tín-Đạo' and 'Rạch-Giá' are as on the sheet; the printed text says 'gây tang tóc điêu linh' (cause mourning and desolation), rendered here as 'mourning and ruin'. [← Land for the People (Cấp phát ruộng đất cho nhân dân)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/land-for-the-people-sp-985-1965/) [The Light of the Just Cause (Phuoc Long Homecoming Ceremony) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/light-of-the-just-cause-phuoc-long-ceremony-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). 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Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)