--- title: Resolution (Khmer Buddhists of Vinh Binh Denounce the Viet Cong) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/resolution-vinh-binh-khmer-buddhists-1967/ description: A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer poster (code SP-2361) reports a September 1967 rally of over 1,000 Khmer-origin monks and lay Buddhists at a pagoda section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Resolution (Khmer Buddhists of Vinh Binh Denounce the Viet Cong) [![Resolution, 1967 US poster: A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer poster (code SP-2361) reports a September 1967 rally of over](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/resolution-vinh-binh-khmer-buddhists-1967.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/resolution-vinh-binh-khmer-buddhists-1967.jpg) # Resolution (Khmer Buddhists of Vinh Binh Denounce the Viet Cong) A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer poster (code SP-2361) reports a September 1967 rally of over 1,000 Khmer-origin monks and lay Buddhists at a pagoda in Vinh Binh province against the Viet Cong killing of one monk and kidnapping of another in August 1967. Two photographs of marching monks flank facsimiles of a Khmer-language and a Vietnamese-language petition with stamped seals and signatures. The petition is reproduced as an exhibit and the voice is that of Khmer Buddhist clergy, the tell of testimonial and an appeal to numbers. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese and Khmer) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` SƯ SÃI VÀ ĐỒNG-BÀO PHẬT TỬ VIỆT GỐC MIÊN TỈNH VĨNH-BÌNH HỌP MÉT-TINH TỐ CÁO HÀNH ĐỘNG DÃ MAN CỦA VIỆT CỘNG [Khmer-script headline and captions: not transcribed] Hằng trăm sư sãi và đồng bào phật tử Việt gốc Miên họp mét tinh tố cáo hành động dã man của Việt Cộng tại chùa BODHISALAREAJ (Ông Mét). Đại Đức MÉKON Chủ tịch Hội đồng kỷ luật sư sãi Việt gốc Miên hướng dẫn đoàn biểu tình tuần hành đến dinh Tỉnh Trưởng dâng kiến nghị. [banner in photograph:] ĐÃ ĐẢO HÀNH ĐỘNG VÔ NHÂN ĐẠO CỦA BỌN VIỆT CỘNG SÁT HẠI SƯ SÃI CHÙA SÓC TRÀM [Khmer-script document, centre: not transcribed] KIẾN - NGHỊ CỦA HỘI PHẬT-GIÁO NGUYÊN-THỦY VIỆT GỐC MIÊN VĨNH-BÌNH KÍNH ĐỆ TRÌNH - TRUNG-TƯỚNG CHỦ-TỊCH ỦY-BAN LÃNH-ĐẠO QUỐC-GIA - THIẾU-TƯỚNG CHỦ-TỊCH ỦY-BAN HÀNH-PHÁP TRUNG-ƯƠNG (Kính nhờ sự chuyển đệ của TRUNG-TÁ TỈNH-TRƯỞNG Vĩnh-Bình) Chúng tôi Hội-Đồng Kỷ-Luật Sư-Sãi và Hội-Đồng Quản-Trị Trung-Ương Hội Phật-Giáo Nguyên-Thủy Việt gốc Miên Vĩnh-Bình, cùng Đại-Biểu Sư-Sãi và Tín-Hữu Phật-Tử Việt gốc Miên của các Chùa trong Tỉnh gồm trên 1.000 vị, họp Mét-Tinh tại Chùa Bodhisalareaj (Chùa Ông Mẹt - Phú-Vinh) vào lúc 09 giờ sáng ngày 14-09-1967 nhằm lên án hành-động dã-man của Việt-Cộng đã sát hại Đại-Đức Sãi-Cả Thạch-Xom và bắt cóc Sư-Sãi Thạch-Khanh tại Chùa Nadi-Samanta thuộc ấp Sóc-Tràm, Xã Tân-Hòa, Quận Tiểu-Cần (Vĩnh-Bình) vào ngày 19-08-1967 vừa qua. [remaining paragraphs of the typed petition, including three numbered resolutions ("1/-", "2/-", "3/-"), are too small to transcribe reliably at this resolution: illegible] Làm tại Vĩnh-Bình ngày [illegible] tháng 9 năm 1967 Đồng ký tên, [signatories, seals and signatures: illegible] SP-2361 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` MONKS AND KHMER-ORIGIN BUDDHIST COMPATRIOTS OF VINH-BINH PROVINCE HOLD A MASS RALLY DENOUNCING THE SAVAGE ACTS OF THE VIET CONG [Khmer-script headline and captions: not transcribed or translated] Hundreds of monks and Khmer-origin Buddhist compatriots hold a rally denouncing the savage acts of the Viet Cong at Bodhisalareaj Pagoda (Ong Met). The Most Venerable Mekon, Chairman of the Disciplinary Council of Khmer-origin monks, leads the demonstrators' procession to the Province Chief's residence to present a petition. [banner in photograph:] DOWN WITH THE INHUMANE ACTS OF THE VIET CONG WHO MURDERED THE MONKS OF SOC TRAM PAGODA [Khmer-script document, centre: not transcribed or translated] PETITION OF THE VINH-BINH KHMER-ORIGIN THERAVADA BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED TO - The Lieutenant General, Chairman of the National Leadership Committee - The Major General, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee (Respectfully relayed through the Lieutenant Colonel, Province Chief of Vinh-Binh) We, the Disciplinary Council of Monks and the Central Board of the Vinh-Binh Khmer-origin Theravada Buddhist Association, together with the monk and lay Buddhist delegates of the pagodas in the province, over 1,000 persons in all, held a rally at Bodhisalareaj Pagoda (Ong Met Pagoda - Phu-Vinh) at 9 a.m. on 14-09-1967 to condemn the savage act of the Viet Cong in murdering the Venerable Head Monk Thach-Xom and kidnapping the monk Thach-Khanh at Nadi-Samanta Pagoda in Soc-Tram hamlet, Tan-Hoa village, Tieu-Can district (Vinh-Binh) on 19-08-1967 just past. [remaining paragraphs of the typed petition, including three numbered resolutions: illegible] Done at Vinh-Binh on [illegible] September 1967 Signed together, [signatories, seals and signatures: illegible] SP-2361 ``` Khmer-script text was not transcribed. The Vietnamese petition body is legible only in part. [← The Rural Construction Cadres Serve the People](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rd-workers-serve-the-people-1967/) [Return to the Just Cause →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/return-to-the-just-cause-bien-hoa-chieu-hoi-1967/) ## More propaganda examples that use 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). 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