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title: This Is VC Guilt
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-is-viet-cong-guilt-1967/
description: A landscape sheet headed 'Here! Viet Cong crime' reports that a Dong-Loi bus carrying passengers in Kien Giang hit a mine on 31 May 1967.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Photographs of wounded civilians in hospital beds, a covered body on a stretcher and a damaged bus, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![This Is VC Guilt, 1967 US poster: A landscape sheet headed 'Here! Viet Cong crime' reports that a Dong-Loi bus carrying](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/this-is-viet-cong-guilt-1967.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/this-is-viet-cong-guilt-1967.jpg)

# This Is VC Guilt

A landscape sheet headed 'Here! Viet Cong crime' reports that a Dong-Loi bus carrying passengers in Kien Giang hit a mine on 31 May 1967, wounding 26 people and killing one woman in hospital. Photos show the damaged bus, wounded patients, a covered body and villagers with banners denouncing the attack. The tell is the pairing of wounded victims with a rhetorical question ('Is this an achievement of the so-called National Liberation Front?') and a call to take revenge.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ĐÂY ! TỘI ÁC VIỆT CỘNG

Sáng ngày 31-5-67, chiếc xe đò hiệu Đồng-Lợi chở đầy hành khách trên đường từ Kiên-Giang về quận Kiên-Bình bị trúng mìn Việt Cộng làm 26 người bị thương (kể cả nặng nhẹ) được đưa đến bệnh viện Phó Điều Kiên-Giang điều trị, trong số đó có một người đàn bà đã chết tại bệnh viện.

Phải chăng đây là một thành tích của bọn mệnh danh là Mặt Trận Giải Phóng Miền Nam.

Cảnh tang tóc đau thương này càng nung nấu thêm lòng căm thù cao độ của toàn dân biến thành hành động cụ thể cương quyết vùng lên diệt tan bè lũ Cộng sản khát máu vô lương để trả thù cho những người chết oan và góp phần bảo vệ nền an ninh nông thôn.

CHIẾC XE ĐÒ ĐỒNG-LỢI TRÊN ĐƯỜNG TỪ RẠCH-GIÁ VỀ QUẬN LỴ KIÊN-BÌNH BỊ TRÚNG MÌN VIỆT CỘNG LÀM NHIỀU HÀNH KHÁCH BỊ TRỌNG THƯƠNG VÀ XE HƯ NẶNG.

MỘT SỐ NẠN NHÂN GỒM CÁC CỤ GIÀ VÀ ĐÀN BÀ BỊ TRỌNG THƯƠNG ĐANG NẰM ĐIỀU TRỊ TẠI BỆNH VIỆN.

VÌ VẾT THƯƠNG QUÁ NẶNG 1 NGƯỜI ĐÀN BÀ ĐÃ CHẾT TẠI BỆNH VIỆN PHÓ ĐIỀU KIÊN-GIANG KHI ĐƯỢC BĂNG BÓ XONG.

ĐỒNG BÀO TỰ ĐỘNG HỌP MEETING CỰC LỰC LÊN ÁN HÀNH ĐỘNG DÃ MAN CỦA VIỆT CỘNG GIỰT MÌN XE ĐÒ SÁT HẠI LƯƠNG DÂN VÔ TỘI.

SP-2007

[In photograph: banners] ĐẢ ĐẢO VIỆT CỘNG GIỰT MÌN XE ĐÒ ĐỒNG-LỢI GÂY ĐỔ MÁU CHO ĐỒNG BÀO VÔ TỘI. ... DÂN VÔ TỘI ? VIỆT CỘNG
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
HERE! VIET CONG CRIME

On the morning of 31-5-67, a Dong-Loi bus full of passengers on the road from Kien-Giang to Kien-Binh district hit a Viet Cong mine, wounding 26 people (serious and light), who were taken to the Kien-Giang Provincial Hospital for treatment; among them one woman died at the hospital.

Is this an achievement of the self-styled National Liberation Front?

This scene of mourning and grief further stokes the people's deep hatred, turning it into concrete action, a firm resolve to rise up and destroy the bloodthirsty, heartless Communist gang, to avenge those who died unjustly and to help protect rural security.

The Dong-Loi bus on the road from Rach-Gia to Kien-Binh district seat hit a Viet Cong mine, leaving many passengers seriously wounded and the bus badly damaged.

Some victims, including old people and women, lie seriously wounded in hospital.

Because of her wounds one woman died at Kien-Giang Provincial Hospital after being bandaged.

The people spontaneously hold a meeting to condemn with all their strength the savage act of the Viet Cong in mining the bus and killing innocent civilians.

SP-2007

[In photograph: banners] DOWN WITH THE VIET CONG WHO MINED THE DONG-LOI BUS AND SPILLED THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT PEOPLE. ... INNOCENT PEOPLE? VIET CONG
```

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