--- title: The People Condemn VC Crimes url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/people-condemn-vc-crimes-1966/ description: A portrait sheet under an orange headline reports that a Viet Cong mine blew up a passenger bus between Quang Tri and Hue on the morning of 5 November section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. The People Condemn VC Crimes **Content note:** Photographs, as issued, show a wrecked bus and a surgeon treating a patient with a bandaged leg after a mine blast. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![The People Condemn VC Crimes, 1966 US poster: A portrait sheet under an orange headline reports that a Viet Cong mine blew up](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/people-condemn-vc-crimes-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/people-condemn-vc-crimes-1966.jpg) # The People Condemn VC Crimes A portrait sheet under an orange headline reports that a Viet Cong mine blew up a passenger bus between Quang Tri and Hue on the morning of 5 November 1966. Photographs show villagers with banners in protest, a surgeon treating a mine victim, soldiers sweeping the road and the wrecked bus. The text calls the attack proof that the Viet Cong hold innocent lives cheap and says such scenes will make the people hate them for ever, a direct appeal to anger resting on a single event. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` NHÂN DÂN LÊN ÁN TỘI ÁC VIỆT-CỘNG! SÁNG NGÀY 5-11-1966 BỌN VIỆTCỘNG KHỦNG BỐ ĐÃ GIỰT MÌN MỘT CHIẾC XE ĐÒ GIỮA KHOẢNG ĐƯỜNG QUẢNG TRỊ VÀ HUẾ. VIỆC GIỰT MÌN CHIẾC XE ĐÒ CHỞ HÀNH KHÁCH THƯỜNG DÂN LÀ BẰNG CHỨNG VIỆTCỘNG COI RẺ TÍNH MẠNG NGƯỜI VÔ TỘI. SAU VỤ MÌN DÂN CHÚNG ĐÃ HỌP MẾT TINH LÊN ÁN BỌN VIỆTCỘNG. NHỮNG TÀI XẾ XE ĐÒ ĐÃ QUYÊN GÓP MỘT SỐ TIỀN DỰNG MỘT MIẾU THỜ TẠI CHỖ ĐÃ XẢY RA VỤ GIỰT MÌN. NHỮNG BÁC SĨ TRONG ĐOÀN Y-TẾ HOA KỲ ĐANG CỨU CHỮA MỘT NẠN NHÂN BỊ MÌN V.C. ĐỂ NGĂN NGỪA MỌI HÀNH ĐỘNG KHỦNG BỐ KHÁC CỦA BỌN VIỆT CỘNG, BINH SĨ CỦA TIỂU ĐOÀN 101 CÔNG-BINH ĐÃ TUẦN TIỂU THƯỜNG NGÀY TRÊN QUÃNG ĐƯỜNG GIỮA HUẾ VÀ QUẢNG TRỊ. NHỮNG CẢNH TÀN PHÁ DO V.C. GÂY RA NHƯ ĐÂY SẼ LÀM CHO DÂN CHÚNG HẬN THÙ MÃI MÃI. [in photograph, banners, partly legible: ...DÂN QUẬN MAI-LĨNH ... TRẢ THÙ CHO NHỮNG ĐỒNG BÀO ... CHƯỢNG-XÁ ... [illegible]] SP-1580 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE PEOPLE CONDEMN THE CRIMES OF THE VIET CONG! On the morning of 5-11-1966 the terrorist Viet Cong blew up a passenger bus between Quang Tri and Hue. Blowing up a bus carrying ordinary civilian passengers is proof that the Viet Cong hold the lives of innocent people cheap. After the mine blast the people assembled in a mass meeting to condemn the Viet Cong. The bus drivers contributed a sum of money to build a shrine at the place where the mine blast occurred. Doctors of the American medical team are treating a victim of a V.C. mine. To prevent any other terrorist acts by the Viet Cong, soldiers of the 101st Engineer Battalion patrol the road between Hue and Quang Tri every day. Scenes of destruction caused by the V.C. like these will make the people hate them for ever. [in photograph, banners, partly legible: ...PEOPLE OF MAI-LINH DISTRICT ... AVENGE THE COMPATRIOTS ... CHUONG-XA ... [illegible]] SP-1580 ``` 'Hoa Kỳ' is the Vietnamese name for the United States. Diacritics transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. [← Open Letter of the Province Chief of Binh Dinh](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/open-letter-binh-dinh-province-chief-1966/) [The People Condemn Viet Cong Terrorism →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/people-condemn-viet-cong-terrorism-1966/) ## 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). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [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. - [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)