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.
- Date
- May 1962
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Government of the Republic of Vietnam under Ngo Dinh Diem (pamphlet, Saigon, May 1962)
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Medium
- Books and pamphlets
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Diem Government
- Leader
- NGO Dinh Diem
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Michigan State University Archives, Fishel Papers UA 17.95; Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons tags PD-South VietnamGov and PD-1996)
Government of the Republic of Vietnam; Michigan State University Archives, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
— 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.
