Các bạn đang làm gì ở đây? (What Are You Doing Here?), leaflet ATF-041-70

Các bạn đang làm gì ở đây? (What Are You Doing Here?), leaflet ATF-041-70

Single-sheet text leaflet in calligraphic lettering, with a green 'Family Reunion' triangle and a Chieu Hoi shield. Five rhetorical questions ask whether the reader is helping his family by being there, whether they eat well and feel happy because of his presence. The tell: questions with an assumed answer, aimed at his family obligations.

Date
October 2, 1970
Period
Cold War
Made by
1st Psychological Operations Unit, 1st Australian Task Force (Nui Dat), for the South Vietnamese Chieu Hoi programme
Region
Oceania
Country
Australia
Medium
Leaflet
Issuer type
Military
Audience
Enemy forces
Techniques
Fear appeal
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Rights
Public domain per holder (AWM: 'Copyright expired. Permission for reproduction not required'; issued 1970)
1st Psychological Operations Unit, 1st Australian Task Force, 1970; Australian War Memorial RC02855 (ATF-041-70).

Text on the object

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

Các bạn đang làm gì ở đây ?
Có Phải các bạn đang giúp đỡ gia đình tại nơi đây không ?
Gia đình các bạn có cảm thấy Sung Sướng vì sự hiện diện của các bạn lại đây ?
Gia đình các bạn có được no ấm hơn bởi Sự hiện diện của các bạn tại đây. Các bạn có đang giúp đỡ gia đình các bạn không ?
[Family Reunion triangle emblem: ĐOÀN TỤ GIA ĐÌNH] [Chieu Hoi emblem] ATF-041-70

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

What are you doing here?
Are you helping your family at this place?
Does your family feel Happy because of your presence here?
Is your family better fed and warm because of Your presence here. Are you helping your family?
[Family Reunion triangle emblem] [Chieu Hoi emblem] ATF-041-70

Single side. The AWM identification strips ('AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL' and the accession number) at the foot of each scan are part of the scan and are omitted. The hosted image places the two sides of the leaflet one above the other (or side by side), joined by FRAME from AWM's two scans of the same object. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; AWM's English translation was consulted.