--- title: The Murder of Colonel Hoang Thuy Nam by the Vietminh Communists (Government of the Republic of Vietnam pamphlet), page 5 url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/murder-of-colonel-hoang-thuy-nam-pamphlet-1962/ description: A typed page of an English-language government pamphlet, dated Saigon, May 1962, attributes the killing of Colonel Hoang Thuy Nam, head of the Vietnamese… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![The Murder of Colonel Hoang Thuy Nam by the Vietminh Communists (Government of the Republic of Vietnam pamphlet), page 5](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/murder-of-colonel-hoang-thuy-nam-pamphlet-1962.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/murder-of-colonel-hoang-thuy-nam-pamphlet-1962.jpg) # The Murder of Colonel Hoang Thuy Nam by the Vietminh Communists (Government of the Republic of Vietnam pamphlet), page 5 A typed page of an English-language government pamphlet, dated Saigon, May 1962, attributes the killing of Colonel Hoang Thuy Nam, head of the Vietnamese liaison mission to the International Commission for Control, to 'Viet-Cong agents' acting for 'the Hanoi authorities'. The tell: loaded descriptors ('extreme savagery', 'Machiavellian plan of International Communism', 'regime of terror') frame a single incident as the character of the whole opposing government. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` — 5 — to deny thus far. They took vengeance on the Chief of the liaison Mission of the Government of the Republic of Viet-Nam, because in his lifetime and during seven long years, Colonel Nam had not ceased to denounce innumerable acts of terrorism and repeated violations of the Geneva Accords committed by the Hanoi authorities, nor had he hesitated to unmask the Machiavellian plan of International Communism to extend its domination not only to South Viet-Nam but also to all Southeast Asia. 3. The extreme savagery with which the Viet-Cong agents perpetrated their crime proves that the Hanoi authorities do not shrink from any means, however inhuman it may be, to achieve their aims. These atrocities, which constitute a grave outrage to the human person, give as well an idea of the regime of terror to which more than half of the population of Viet-Nam living North of the 17th parallel is presently being submitted. The International Commission for Control has now in hand all the proof of the Hanoi authorities' culpability as well as the most edifying documents on the atrocities committed on the person of Colonel Nam. The Vietnamese people are waiting with impatience for a verdict from the Commission which will answer to the confidence that they place in this high international body. ``` Transcribed from the Commons page-5 image of the PDF; the page begins mid-sentence at the top. [← "Der Schutzpatron der Westberliner Spionageorganisation Lemmer": ADN photomontage](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/adn-lemmer-photomontage-1962/) ["Macht das Tor auf": Brandenburg Gate model at the inner-German border, east of Lübeck →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/macht-das-tor-auf-border-gate-1962/) ## Using the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 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/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [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/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [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/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [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/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)