--- title: People Protest (Dân chúng phản đối!) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/people-protest-trang-bang-1965-1969/ description: A poster (code SP-949) blames the Viet Cong for a shelling of Trảng Bàng district (Hậu Nghĩa) that, it says, killed 15 civilians. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. People Protest (Dân chúng phản đối!) **Content note:** Photographs of civilian dead (a body among debris, a mourner beside a body) and a funeral procession, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![People Protest, 1965 US poster: A poster (code SP-949) blames the Viet Cong for a shelling of Trảng Bàng district (Hậu Nghĩa)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/people-protest-trang-bang-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/people-protest-trang-bang-1965-1969.jpg) # People Protest (Dân chúng phản đối!) A poster (code SP-949) blames the Viet Cong for a shelling of Trảng Bàng district (Hậu Nghĩa) that, it says, killed 15 civilians, 10 of them schoolchildren, and wounded 45, including 19 schoolchildren. Photographs show a street march, a mass rally with banners, a corpse among debris, a mourner beside a body and a funeral procession. The tell is the pairing of casualty photographs with the loaded labels 'cruel Viet Cong' and 'inhuman', and a rhetorical question answering that the attackers 'dare not' fight the army. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` DÂN CHÚNG PHẢN ĐỐI ! VỤ VIỆT-CỘNG PHÁO KÍCH QUẬN TRẢNG-BÀNG (HẬU-NGHĨA) LÀM CHẾT 15 THƯỜNG DÂN (TRONG SỐ 10 EM HỌC-SINH) VÀ 45 NGƯỜI BỊ THƯƠNG (TRONG SỐ CÓ 19 EM HỌC-SINH). TẠI SAO CHÚNG KHÔNG DÁM TẤN CÔNG QUÂN-LỰC VNCH MÀ LẠI GÂY CHẾT CHÓC 1 CÁCH VÔ LÝ CHO NHỮNG NGƯỜI VÔ TỘI ? VÌ TẤN CÔNG NHỮNG NGƯỜI VÔ PHƯƠNG TỰ VỆ LÀ PHƯƠNG CÁCH DUY NHẤT ĐỂ CHÚNG BIỂU DƯƠNG SỨC MẠNH. DÂN CHÚNG ĐÃ BIỂU TÌNH... ...ĐẢ ĐẢO HÀNH ĐỘNG VÔ NHÂN ĐẠO CỦA BỌN VIỆT-CỘNG. BỌN VIỆT-CỘNG TÀN ÁC PHẢI CHỊU TRÁCH NHIỆM VỀ NHỮNG SỰ CHẾT CHÓC VÔ LÝ NÀY —HỌ CHẲNG MẢY MAY NGHĨ ĐẾN NỖI ĐAU KHỔ CỦA DÂN CHÚNG. SP-949 [Signs in photographs, partly legible: Ambrella; HOÀNG-ÍCH; A-CHÂU; [illegible]] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE PEOPLE PROTEST! The Viet-Cong shelling of Trang-Bang district (Hau-Nghia) killed 15 civilians (10 of them schoolchildren) and wounded 45 people (19 of them schoolchildren). Why do they not dare attack the forces of the Republic of Vietnam, but instead cause senseless death to innocent people? Because attacking defenceless people is the only way for them to display strength. The people demonstrated... ...denouncing the inhuman act of the Viet-Cong. The cruel Viet-Cong must bear responsibility for these senseless deaths - they hardly give a thought to the suffering of the people. SP-949 ``` Signs inside photographs are small and only partly legible; the banner and funeral-arch wording is marked [illegible] and is not part of the poster's own text. [← Partners in Crime](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/partners-in-crime-undated-1965-1969/) [A New Elementary School in Phu Nhuan to Help the Cham Population Improve Their New Life →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/phu-nhuan-elementary-school-cham-hamlet-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). 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)