--- title: The People of Duc Hoa Condemn Viet Cong Crimes url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/people-of-duc-hoa-condemn-viet-cong-crimes-1966/ description: A poster (code SP-1622) reports that on the night of 18 October 1966 the Viet Cong attacked a hamlet security post at Binh Thi. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. The People of Duc Hoa Condemn Viet Cong Crimes **Content note:** Photographs of a street march with banners, a district chief handing out food, and burned-out houses and a bandaged man, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![The People of Duc Hoa Condemn Viet Cong Crimes, 1966 US poster: A poster (code SP-1622) reports that on the night of 18](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/people-of-duc-hoa-condemn-viet-cong-crimes-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/people-of-duc-hoa-condemn-viet-cong-crimes-1966.jpg) # The People of Duc Hoa Condemn Viet Cong Crimes A poster (code SP-1622) reports that on the night of 18 October 1966 the Viet Cong attacked a hamlet security post at Binh Thi, killing a family and burning 30 houses, and shows a street march of over 500 people, a district chief handing out food to victims, and burned-out houses. The final caption calls the sight the Viet Cong's so-called 'liberation'. The tell is an atrocity report paired with a crowd photograph presented as the community's unanimous response. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` DÂN CHÚNG ĐỨC HÒA LÊN ÁN TỘI ÁC VIỆT CỘNG ĐÊM 18-10-66 VIỆT CỘNG ĐỘT NHẬP VÀO A.T.S. BÌNH THỊ LIỆNG LỰU ĐẠN BÉTA VÀO NHÀ TÀN SÁT ÔNG MAI VĂN QUẢNG VÀ 3 EM BÉ CHƯA ĐẦY 6 TUỔI CHẾT THÊ THẢM, 13 PHỤ NỮ, TRẺ EM BỊ THƯƠNG NẶNG. CHÚNG CÒN ĐỐT 30 CĂN NHÀ CỦA ĐỒNG BÀO. TRÊN 500 ĐỒNG BÀO ĐANG BIỂU TÌNH QUA CÁC ĐƯỜNG PHỐ LÊN ÁN TỘI ÁC VIỆT CỘNG. TRUNG-ÚY TẠ-TRUNG-QUÂN, QUẬN-TRƯỞNG ĐỨC-HÒA ĐANG TRAO THỰC PHẨM CHO ĐỒNG BÀO NẠN NHÂN. ĐÂY QUANG CẢNH MỆNH DANH "GIẢI PHÓNG" CỦA BỌN VIỆT CỘNG, CHỨNG TỎ BỌN CHÚNG COI RẺ TÍNH MẠNG ĐỒNG BÀO VÔ TỘI. [Banners in photograph, partly legible: ĐẢ ... ĐỒNG BÀO ... SÁT HẠI ... THẾ THỦ VÔ TỘI; CỰC ... ĐỠ MAN CỦA VIỆT ... ] SP-1622 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE PEOPLE OF DUC HOA CONDEMN THE CRIMES OF THE VIET CONG On the night of 18-10-66 the Viet Cong broke into the hamlet security post [A.T.S.] at Binh Thi and hurled grenades into the house of Mr. Mai Van Quang, massacring him and 3 children not yet 6 years old in a pitiful manner; 13 women and children were seriously wounded. They also burned 30 houses of the compatriots. Over 500 compatriots are demonstrating through the streets condemning the crimes of the Viet Cong. Lieutenant Ta-Trung-Quan, chief of Duc-Hoa district, is handing out food to the victims. This is the scene of the Viet Cong's so-called 'liberation', proving that they hold the lives of innocent compatriots cheap. [Banners in photograph, partly legible: Down with ... compatriots ... killing ... innocent ...; ... the savagery of the Viet ... ] SP-1622 ``` Banner text is mostly illegible at this resolution. The poster does not expand 'A.T.S.'; the translation's 'hamlet security post' is FRAME's best reading. [← The People Condemn Viet Cong Terrorism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/people-condemn-viet-cong-terrorism-1966/) [The People Protest Against the Viet Cong →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/people-protest-against-viet-cong-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)