--- title: The People's Answer to an Atrocity (Phản ứng của nhân dân đối với hành-động sát nhân của bọn Việt-Cộng) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-peoples-answer-to-an-atrocity-sp-1843-1967/ description: A portrait photo-spread (code SP-1843) shows relief supplies being handed out from a truck, officers and civilians in the ruins of Hoa Thuan. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. The People's Answer to an Atrocity **Content note:** Photographs show burned and shelled houses and a protest rally after a shelling, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![The People's Answer to an Atrocity, 1967 US poster: A portrait photo-spread (code SP-1843) shows relief supplies being handed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-peoples-answer-to-an-atrocity-sp-1843-1967.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-peoples-answer-to-an-atrocity-sp-1843-1967.jpg) # The People's Answer to an Atrocity (Phản ứng của nhân dân đối với hành-động sát nhân của bọn Việt-Cộng) A portrait photo-spread (code SP-1843) shows relief supplies being handed out from a truck, officers and civilians in the ruins of Hoa Thuan, burned-out houses, and a large rally with banners. The text says that after a Viet Cong shelling at Hoa Thuan, Quang Nam province, on 27 February 1967 the authorities rushed relief to victims, and that a crowd held a protest march denouncing the killings. The government's response and the crowd's anger are shown together as the population's verdict. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` PHẢN ỨNG CỦA NHÂN DÂN ĐỐI VỚI HÀNH-ĐỘNG SÁT NHÂN CỦA BỌN VIỆT-CỘNG NGÀY 27 THÁNG HAI 1967 CHÍNH-QUYỀN ĐÃ CẤP TỐC CỨU TRỢ NHỮNG NẠN NHÂN TRONG CUỘC PHÁO-KÍCH CỦA VIỆT-CỘNG TẠI HÒA-THUẬN THUỘC TỈNH QUẢNG-NAM. VỤ PHÁO KÍCH NÀY MỘT LẦN NỮA CHỨNG TỔ CHỦ TRƯƠNG KHỦNG BỐ GÂY CHẾT CHÓC VÀ PHÁ-HOẠI CỦA VIỆT-CỘNG ĐỐI VỚI THƯỜNG DÂN VÔ TỘI. Chính-quyền và các cơ-quan hữu-trách đã cấp-tốc cứu trợ đồng bào nạn-nhân những vật dụng cần thiết. Những vật-dụng cứu-trợ đã được cấp phát ngay trong mấy tiếng đồng hồ sau cuộc pháo kích. Quang cảnh khu phố Hòa-Thuận, sau vụ pháo-kích của Việt-Cộng sáng ngày 27-2-67. Hành-động sát nhân vô ý thức này đã chứng tỏ Việt-Cộng coi rẻ tính-mạng và tài sản của dân chúng. Trong ngày Việt-Cộng pháo kích, Thiếu-Tướng Chủ-Tịch UBHPTU đã đến tận nơi thăm hỏi và ủy lạo đồng-bào. Quần-chúng đã họp mết tinh bày tỏ nỗi căm phẫn đối với tội ác của bọn Việt-Cộng. Sau hơn một giờ nhóm họp giữa trời, cuộc Mết Tinh đã biến thành cuộc biểu tình tuần-hành qua các đường phố với những biểu ngữ tố cáo hành-động sát nhân của bọn Việt-Cộng. SP-1843 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE PEOPLE'S REACTION TO THE VIET CONG'S MURDEROUS ACT On 27 February 1967 the authorities rushed relief to the victims of the Viet Cong shelling at Hoa-Thuan in Quang-Nam province. This shelling once again proves the Viet Cong's policy of terror, causing death and destruction among innocent ordinary people. The authorities and responsible agencies rushed necessary supplies to the victim compatriots. The relief supplies were distributed within a few hours of the shelling. A view of the Hoa-Thuan neighbourhood after the Viet Cong shelling on the morning of 27-2-67. This senseless murderous act proves the Viet Cong hold the lives and property of the people cheap. On the day of the Viet Cong shelling, the Major General, Chairman of the Executive Committee [UBHPTU], came to the spot to visit and comfort the people. The masses held a meeting to express their anger at the crimes of the Viet Cong. After more than an hour gathered in the open, the meeting turned into a protest march through the streets with banners denouncing the murderous acts of the Viet Cong. SP-1843 ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering. The printed 'Mết Tinh' is the Vietnamese spelling of 'meeting' and is rendered 'meeting'; 'UBHPTU' is left as printed. Banner text in the rally photograph is not transcribed. 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