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Rạng sáng ngày 6 tháng 3 năm 1968, Việt Cộng đã tung ra một loạt pháo kích vào khu dân cư tại Sài Gòn làm chết 48 người và bị thương 150 người. Đây là trận tấn công thứ tư trong vòng 12 ngày vừa qua đã thả 7 quả pháo 122 ly lên nhà dân ở thành phố, quận Tư và quận Chín bị 25 người chết và 70 người bị thương. Bảy trong gia đình chín người bao gồm 4 trẻ em, đã bị giết chết trong nhà của họ. Hầu hết các nạn nhân là phụ nữ và trẻ em. Vài giờ sau trận tấn công, thân nhân của những nạn nhân bắt đầu than khóc trước thi thể của các nạn nhân ở bệnh viện Bình Dân, nơi 70 người bị tử thương được đưa vào bệnh viện nửa giờ sau khi bị pháo kích. Lính cứu hoả và những nhân viên cứu càng làm việc trong những đường hẻm hẹp trong bóng đêm nhằm cứu giúp những người bị chôn vùi trong đống đổ nát. Một quả đạn pháo đã rớt ngay vào bệnh viện kề bên và những mảnh thi thể nát vụn được tìm thấy trong đống tấm trải giường.

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In the pre-dawn darkness of Saigon, on March 6, Viet Cong gunners unleashed another barrage of rockets into the city and upped the civilian casualty count to 48 dead and 150 wounded. This fourth such attack in 12 days landed seven 122 millimeter warheads on civilian homes in the city's first, fourth and ninth precincts accounting for 25 dead and almost 70 injured. Seven of a nine member family, including their four small children, were killed at one home. Most of the victims were women and children. Hours after the attack relatives wept over the bodies of the victims at Saigon's Binh Dan Central Hospital were the 70 injured were admitted during the first half hour following the rocketing. Fireman and stretcher bearers worked in the narrow passage ways and alleys in the dark to rescue those buried in the rubble. One rocket impacted on a neighborhood infirmary and fragments of bodies were found among the blood-drenched bedclothes.


"Chiến công biệt động thành" Pháo kích vào bệnh viện BÌNH DÂN



13 Mar 1968, Hue, Vietnam --- Original caption: Communist Mine Wounds Children. Hue, South Vietnam: A medic of the 82nd Airborne binds the wounds of a Vietnamese girl injured when a group of children accidentally tripped a Viet Cong mine intended for U.S. vehicles. The child's sister tries to comfort her. A number of other children were also injured in the explosion two miles south of Hue. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.


 11 Feb 1968, Hue, Vietnam --- Original caption: With a wounded baby in her arms, an elderly Vietnamese woman makes a plea for help as she arrives at a U.S. Marine aid station. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.

 
Mười lăm (15) thường dân đã chết trong vụ nổ của mìn tự chế Việt Cộng trên một con đường quê ở Tuy Hòa. Hầu hết các nạn nhân ngồi trong xe Lam ba bánh (Tricycle Lambretta) thân xác tan nát bởi vụ nổ.
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ca. 1966, Vietnam --- Fifteen civilians died in the explosion of a homemade Viet Cong mine on a country road in Tuy Hoa. Most of the victims were riding in a Lambretta Tricycle which struck the mine and was ripped apart by the blast. One woman mourns for one of the victims, ca. 1966. | Location: Tuy Hoa, South Vietnam. --- Image by © CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.

 




Hai tiểu đoàn Việt Cộng có chủ trương đã phóng hỏa và tàn sát 252 thường dân trong một cuộc tấn công "trả thù" ngôi làng nhỏ ở tỉnh Đăk Sơn. Ngày 06 tháng 12 năm 1967.

General views of the destroyed montagnards of Dak son new life Hamlet, December 7, 1967 in Vietnam. Vietcong killed 114 of the villagers and wounded 47. (AP Photo) APRIL 1967

 
 06 Jan 1969, Saigon, Vietnam --- A member of the military police stands over South Vietnamese Minister of Education Dr. Le Minh Tri, who lies bloodied in the street following a Vietcong bombing of his car in Saigon. Le Minh Tri and his bodyguard sustained multiple wounds after a Vietcong soldier threw a hand grenade into the car, killing the driver. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.




 Ngày 16 tháng 2, rạp hát Kinh Đô bị đánh bom làm 3 người Mỹ chết và hơn 32 người bị thương. (Việt cộng nói có hơn 150 lính Mỹ thiệt mạng trong vụ này)


 A rescue worker helps a mother carry her injured child to an ambulance following the bombing of an American billet by Vietcong terrorists during the Vietnam War. Ten people, including two Americans, were killed and about 175 persons were wounded as a result of the blast. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.


 

 






February 1966, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam --- One of the 48 persons wounded by a Viet Cong explosion which killed 14 persons in Saigon awaits treatment in the Cong Hoa Hospital. The blast was set off on a busy street corner, and the victims included women and children. February 1966. | Location: Cong Hoa Hospital, Saigon, South Vietnam. --- Image by © CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.






 Injured Vietnamese receive aid as they lie on the street after a bomb explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, March 30, 1965. Smoke rises from wreckage in the background. At least two Americans and several Vietnamese were killed in the bombing.


"Chiến công biệt động thành" Pháo kích vào Trường tiểu học Cai Lậy.

Ngày 9 tháng 3, 1974. Trường tiểu học Cai Lậy (Tiền Giang) bị Việt cộng pháo kích bằng súng cối 82 ly. Theo tướng Lâm Quang Thi, vụ tấn công này đã làm 34 học sinh đang tụ tập tại đó bị chết và hơn 70 người khác bị thương.

 





"Chiến công biệt động thành" đặt bom Nhà hàng Mỹ Cảnh

28 Jun 1965, Saigon, South Vietnam --- Saigon: A Floating Nightmare. Shattered bodies lie sprawled about at the entrance area of a floating restaurant here June 25th, after two Viet Cong bombs claimed 42 lives and injured 80 persons. The majority of fatalities occurred when the second bomb went off at the gangplank entrance to the boat-restaurant, trapping many who were fleeing from the first blast. Among the dead were 27 Vietnamese, 12 Americans, one German, one Frenchman, and one Filipino. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.




Police in Da Nang cover the eyes of a woman who was an alleged member of a Viet Cong terrorist unit on Oct. 26, 1972. The woman was captured carrying 15 hand grenades, during the previous night's battle in Da Nang. (AP Photo) AP1972








1965, Vietnam --- Original caption: South Vietnam: The burned bodies of South Vietnamese children shown sprawled on ground after Viet Cong attack on village. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.


Seven Killed 47 Wounded By Communist Bomb In Saigon Vietcong Versus South Vietnam --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.



Ngày 3 tháng 12, 1973. Đặc công rừng Sác tấn công kho xăng Nhà Bè, kho xăng bị cháy suốt 10 ngày đêm.

 
 Mười lăm (15) thường dân đã chết trong vụ nổ của mìn tự chế Việt Cộng trên một con đường quê ở Tuy Hòa. Hầu hết các nạn nhân ngồi trong xe Lam ba bánh (Tricycle Lambretta) thân xác tan nát bởi vụ nổ.
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ca. 1966, Vietnam --- Fifteen civilians died in the explosion of a homemade Viet Cong mine on a country road in Tuy Hoa. Most of the victims were riding in a Lambretta Tricycle which struck the mine and was ripped apart by the blast. One woman mourns for one of the victims, ca. 1966. | Location: Tuy Hoa, South Vietnam. --- Image by © CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.

 


22 Jun 1965, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam --- Original caption: Saigon, South Vietnam: Viet Cong terrorist Tran Van Dang meets death by firing squad's fusillade in the public market place here June 22nd. Dang, captured, March 20th, and convicted of attempting to blow-up a U.S. officers' barrack in Saigon went to his death shouting, "Long live Ho Chi Minh (Premier of North Vietnam). Down with the Americans." The youth's execution was one of the first official acts of Prime Minister Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who assumed office June 21st. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.


Bản đồ Sài Gòn (với những chấm) đánh dấu các khu vực bị Việt cộng pháo kích. Map of Saigon showing impact of Viet cong rockets. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/sully-618-map-of-saigon-showing-impact-of-vietnamese-rockets




A rescue worker helps a mother carry her injured child to an ambulance following the bombing of an American billet by Vietcong terrorists during the Vietnam War. Ten people, including two Americans, were killed and about 175 persons were wounded as a result of the blast. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.


Rạng sáng ngày 6 tháng 3 năm 1968, Việt Cộng đã tung ra một loạt pháo kích vào khu dân cư tại Sài Gòn làm chết 48 người và bị thương 150 người. Đây là trận tấn công thứ tư trong vòng 12 ngày vừa qua đã thả 7 quả pháo 122 ly lên nhà dân ở thành phố, quận Tư và quận Chín bị 25 người chết và 70 người bị thương. Bảy trong gia đình chín người bao gồm 4 trẻ em, đã bị giết chết trong nhà của họ. Hầu hết các nạn nhân là phụ nữ và trẻ em. Vài giờ sau trận tấn công, thân nhân của những nạn nhân bắt đầu than khóc trước thi thể của các nạn nhân ở bệnh viện Bình Dân, nơi 70 người bị tử thương được đưa vào bệnh viện nửa giờ sau khi bị pháo kích. Lính cứu hoả và những nhân viên cứu càng làm việc trong những đường hẻm hẹp trong bóng đêm nhằm cứu giúp những người bị chôn vùi trong đống đổ nát. Một quả đạn pháo đã rớt ngay vào bệnh viện kề bên và những mảnh thi thể nát vụn được tìm thấy trong đống tấm trải giường.

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Ngày 30 tháng Bảy năm 1967, một chiếc xe khách dân sự đi trên quốc lộ 1, phía đông Trảng Bàng bị Việt Cộng huỷ hoại. Trong khi cố gắng trở đầu lại, tài xế cán lên mìn. Hai mươi người bị thương và một người bị chết sau đó vì bị thương quá nặng.

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Việt cộng pháo kích ác liệt khu vực dân cư quận 8 Sài Gòn


VC pháo kích vào Sài gòn lúc 4:30 sáng 21 Tháng 4, 1975. Mười bốn (14) chết và hơn (40) bốn mươi người dân bị thương, cùng thiêu hủi 150 gia cư. 0000126415-001

21 Apr 1975, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam --- Original caption: The first rocket attack hit Saigon at 4:30, striking the town center and setting fire to 150 wooden houses. Fourteen died and over forty people were injured in the attacks. Inhabitants of Saigon wake up to the devastation of war. --- Image by © Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.


Người dân Miền Nam di chuyển bằng mọi cách để thoát ra khỏi khu vực Thành phố Quảng Trị ngày 03 tháng 4, 1972. Đồng bào Quảng Tri bỏ chạy trước cuộc tấn công quy mô lớn của quân Bắc Việt .


Một người cha hoảng loạn ôm con trai đã chết từ xe tải bị nổ vì mìn (vc) , giết chết ít nhất 40 người và làm bị thương 60 người. Ba xe tải này chở những người dân lánh nạn ngay khi thành phố Quảng Trị bị tấn công. http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U1737561/father-carrying-dead-son?popup=1 U1737561

28 Apr 1972, Vietnam --- Original caption: His Tragic Loss. Outside Quang Tri City, So. Vietnam: A distraught father rushes his dead son from truck which struck a mine, killing at least 40 persons and injuring 60 others. Three trucks, loaded with refugees fleeing this provincial capital under attack. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.


Một người lính Quân Lực VNCH cố gắng giải thoát người dân bị thương sau khi chiếc xe tải chở đồng bào tị nạn cán trúng mìn Việt cộng cách Quảng Trị hướng nam khoảng 4 dậm. Ít nhất 40 người đã thiệt mạng và 60 người bị thương trong vụ nổ cùng ba xe tải khác .
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29 Apr 1972, Hue, Vietnam --- Original caption: Hue, S. Vietnam: A distraught Vietnamese father holds his wounded child in his arms as both wait for medical treatment at hospital in Hue. Both were hurt in fighting around Quang Tri City and were part of a mass exodus down Highway 1 to the former imperial capital. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.




The Brink Hotel in Saigon, also known as the Brink Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ), was bombed by the Viet Cong on the evening of December 24, 1964, during the Vietnam War. Two Viet Cong operatives detonated a car bomb underneath the hotel, which housed United States Army officers. The explosion killed two Americans, an officer and an NCO, and injured approximately 60, including military personnel and Vietnamese civilians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brinks_Hotel_bombing


Death of military family in Saigon suburb
South Vietnamese soldiers stand near bodies of a South Vietnamese commander of a training camp and command center and members of his family after the camp was retaken from the Viet Cong. The commander, a colonel, was decapitated and his wife and six children were machine gunned. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon)
Cái chết của gia đình quân nhân tại ngoại ô Saigon Những người lính VNCH đứng cạnh xác chết của viên sĩ quan trại huấn luyện và trung tâm chỉ huy miền Nam cùng các xác chết của gia đình ông, sau khi bị Việt cộng (Nguyễn Văn Lém) tấn công. Viên chỉ huy, cấp bậc đại tá đã bị chặt đầu còn vợ và sáu người con của ông đã bị bắn chết


Dàn phóng hỏa tiễn pháo kích, khủng bố nhắm vào khu cư dân thành phố.


Người anh trai thao thức luôn cầu nguyện bên cạnh xác cô em gái 20 tuổi bị tử thương vì hỏa tiễn pháo kích vào khu dân cư Sài Gòn lúc rạng sáng. Cô ta là một trong số 50 thường dân bị sát hại và bị thương. (Ngày 22 Tháng 12/1972)


Viet Cong who earlier shot 4 young boys -- Gia Dinh Province, March 26, 1966 -- Four young Vietnamese boys were the victims Friday March 25 of an attack on a small village by a band of Viet Cong insurgents, 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Saigon.; At 3:30 p.m. while a group of children were watching some visitors to the hamlet of Dan Tri V. Go Vap district of Gia Dinh Province, a small band of Viet Cong attached. It shot down the four boys, ages 5,6,8 and 12, wounded two others and also hit a woman.; The local popular Force immediately brought fire against the attacking insurgents, killing five of them. Two sub-machine guns, one M-1 rifle, one French rifle and one Chinese machine gun were captured. One Claymore type mine was also picked up from the Viet Cong bodies.; Dan Tri V is in the northern part of Go Vap District. It has been under the rural construction program of the government. http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=va004332


These two small boys and a woman were among nine Vietnamese civilians murdered by Viet Cong terrorists in the hamlet of Cam Van, about 15 kilometers south of Da Nang in South Vietnam. The bodies were discovered in a village hut August 5 by a U.S. Marine patrol. Two other children and one adult were found still alive; one child died later in a Da Nang hospital. All had been beaten and then machine-gunned by the terrorists. Villagers said the mass slaughter occurred after the children's parents and relatives refused to cooperate with the communists. http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=va004321




Mặc dù đã trốn dưới mương, số phận nghiệt ngã đã không buông tha gia đình xấu số người miền Nam này. Gia đình người mẹ tương lai trẻ này đang chờ đợi 1 hài nhi ra đời thì đã bị bộ đội cộng sản Bắc Việt tàn sát cùng với cả làng của mình ở Thừa Thiên Huế. Ghi chú: Dù không thấy dây trói ở cận cảnh của cô gái nhưng dấu vết bị trói rất rõ ràng ở phần dưới của tấm hình, và bụng của cô ta đã bị rạch lòi ruột. Nguồn: Viện Nghiên Cứu Á Châu - Đại Học Texas

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Though hidden in a ditch, escape was denied this South Vietnamese family. With her offering around, an unidentified mother awaited the end. The incident occurred when NVA soldiers massacred civilians in a village in Huong Tra district, Thua Thien province. Note: Position of girl in foreground though no cords were found, marks on hands at bottom of photo, and slashed stomach.



Hai tiểu đoàn Việt Cộng có chủ trương đã tàn sát 252 thường dân trong một cuộc tấn công "trả thù" ngôi làng nhỏ ở tỉnh Đăk Sơn. Nước mắt đang chảy dài trên khuôn mặt của bé Dieu Do (3 tuổi) nay trở thành mồ côi và vô không nhà. Ngày 06 tháng 12 năm 1967.
Two battalions of Viet Cong systematically killed 252 civilians in a "vengeance" attack on the small hamlet of Dak Son. Tears are streaming down the face of little three-year-old Dieu Do, now homeless and fatherless. December 6, 1967.
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A grief-stricken South Vietnamese mother carries the blanket-wrapped body of her baby, killed during a Viet Cong mortar barrage on the village of Ap Do. Main target of the pre-dawn attack on February 27 was the nearby U.S. air base at Da Nang. The dead included 11 Americans and 35 civilians. http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=va004317




















Rural Area...Some of the 23 Canal workers Murdered by VC.; Tan Huong Hamlet, Ben Tranh District, Dinh Truong Province; South Vietnam http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=va004316




Vietnamese civilians who died in the Viet Cong attack on a civilian bus at Kedol. http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=va004330


NVA and VC Slay German Medical Personnel During Tet Offensive; Three professors, members of the West German Cultural Mission who taught at the Hue Faculty of Medicine, and the wife of one of the professors, were abducted and murdered by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong during their attack on Hue during the Tet Offensive (Feb. 1968). Their bodies, along with those of scores of Vietnamese civilians, who also were slain by the Communist attackers, were found April 5 in mass graves near Hue. The slain Germans were Professor and Mrs. Horst Krainick, Dr. Alois Altekoester, and Dr. Raimund Discher. http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=va004329


Dr. Alois Altekoester bị Việt cộng bắt giữ và sát hại Huế 1968. http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=va004326


Dr. Raimund Discher bị Việt cộng sát hại trong thời gian Việt cộng chiếm đóng Huế 1968 rhttp://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=va004324








Khách sạn Metropole sau vụ VC khủng bố năm 1965. Ngày 4-12-1965. Việt cộng nổ bom xe khủng bố, phá sập khách sạn Metropole ở Sài Gòn. Trong vụ khủng bố này, có 8 nhân viên người Việt và 2 binh sĩ đồng minh thiệt mạng. Khoảng dưới 200 người dân bị thương tích nặng, nhẹ. Cuộc tấn công này đánh dấu cường độ leo thang chiến thuật khủng bố của cộng sản tại Miền Nam VN, nhất là đô thành Sài Gòn, mà đỉnh điểm là trận Tết Mậu Thân 1968...


The Brink Hotel in Saigon, also known as the Brink Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ), was bombed by the Viet Cong on the evening of December 24, 1964, during the Vietnam War. Two Viet Cong operatives detonated a car bomb underneath the hotel, which housed United States Army officers. The explosion killed two Americans, an officer and an NCO, and injured approximately 60, including military personnel and Vietnamese civilians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brinks_Hotel_bombing


12 Apr 1975, Tay Ninh, South Vietnam --- 4/12/1975-Tay Ninh, South Vietnam: A South Vietnamese woman cries over the death of her husband after Communist rockets hit this city some 50 miles northwest of Saigon. Shelling of Tay Ninh resumed over the past three days after a 15-day pause. Many families had returned; now they will have to flee again. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.


30 Mar 1965, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam --- Original caption: Saigon, South Vietnam: A dead woman lies among flaming debris of the American Embassy after a terrorist bomb rocked the building and surrounding area wounding and killing an estimated 50 persons. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.


Khủng bố VC bị bắt khi đặt bom bị xử bắn 1965.







 
The Vietnamese Communist Leaders, have a wellđefined and recorded history as a black-hearted war criminal. Vietnamese Communist Party recruited young Vietnamese men and women (children included) and trained them as terrorists for terrorism acts against the civilian population of South Vietnam .

The following is a partial chronological list of terrorist acts which were a part of VCP's campaign of terror against the civilian population of South Vietnam.

Feb. 2, 1960: Terrorists sack and burn the Buddhist temple at Phuoc Thanh, Tay Ninh provincẹ They stab to death 17-year old Phan Van Ngoc, who tries to stop them.

April 22, 1960: Some 30 armed communists raid Thoi Long, An Xuyen provincẹ They attempt to take away villager Cao Van Nanh, 45. Villagers protest en massẹ Farmer Pham Van Bai, 56, is particularly argumentativẹ The communists, angered, seize him. This arouses the villagers who swarm toward the Viet Cong and their prisoner. The communists fire into the crowd. A 16-year old boy is shot dead.

August 23, 1960: Two school teachers, Nguyen Khoa Ngon and Miss Nguyen Thi Thiet, are preparing lessons at home when communists arrive and force them at gun point to go to their school, Rau Ran, in Phong Dinh provincẹ There they find two men tied to the school verandạ The communists read the death order of the two men, named Canh and Van. They are executed, presumable to intimidate the school teachers.

September 24, 1960: An armed band sacks a school in An Lac. An Gian provincẹ It piles seats and desks together and fires them and the school. All that remains is four bare walls.

September 28, 1960: Father Hoang Ngoc Minh, much beloved priest of Kontum parish, is riding from Tan Canh to Kondelạ A communist road block halts his car. A bullet smashes into him. The guerrillas drive bamboo spears into Father Minh's body, then one fires a submachine gun point blank, killing him. The driver Huynh Huu, his nephew, is seriously wounded.

September 30, 1960: A band of ten armed communists kidnap farmer Truong Van Dang, 67, from Long Tri, Long An provincẹ They take him before what they call a "peoplés tribunal." He is condemned to death for purchasing two hectares of rice land and ignoring communist orders to turn the land over to another farmer. After the "trial" he is shot dead in his rice field.

December 6, 1960: Terrorists dynamite the kitchen at the Saigon Golf Club, killing a Vietnamese kitchen helper and injuring two Vietnamese cooks.

December 1960: The GVN reports to the ICC that during the year the communists destroyed or damaged 284 bridges, burned 60 medical aid stations and, through destruction of schools, deprived some 25,000 children of schooling.

March 22, 1961: A truck carrying 20 girls is dynamited on the Saigon-Vung Tau road. The girls are returning from Saigon where they have taken part in a Trung Sisters Day celebration. After the explosion terrorists open fire on survivors. Two of the girls are killed and ten wounded. The girls are unarmed and traveling without escort.

May 15, 1961: Twelve Catholic nuns from La Providence order are traveling on Highway One toward Saigon. Their bus is stopped by communists who ransack their luggagẹ Sister Theophile protests and is shot dead on the spot. The vehicle is sprayed with bullets seriously wounding Sister Phan Thi Nọ The ambush takes place near Tram Van, Tay Ninh Provincẹ

July 26, 1961: Two Vietnamese National Assemblymen Rmah Pok and Yet Nic Bounrit, both Montagnards, are shot and killed by terrorists near Dalat. A schoolteacher, traveling with them on their visit to a Montagnard resettlement village, is also killed.

September 20, 1961: One thousand main force communist soldiers storm Phuoc Vinh, capital of (then) Phuoc Thanh province, sac and burn government buildings, behead virtually the entire administrative staff. They hold the capital for 24 hours before withdrawing.

October, 1961: A ỤS. State Department study estimates that the communists are killing Vietnamese at rate of 1,500 per month. December 13, 1961: Father Bonnet, a French parish priest from Konkala, Kontum is killed by a terrorist while visiting parishioners at Ngok Rongeị

December 20, 1961: S. Fuka, a Japanese engineer at the Da Nhim dam, a Japanese government war reparations project to supply electric power to Viet-Nam, is kidnaped after being stopped at a road block. His fate is never learned.

January 1, 1962: A Vietnamese labor leader, Le Van Thieu, 63, is hacked to death by terrorists wielding machetes near Bien Hoa, in the rubber plantation on which he works.

January 2, 1962: Two Vietnamese technicians working in the government's anti-malaria program, Pham Van Hai and Nguyen Van Thach, are killed by communists with machetes, 12 miles south of Saigon.

February 20, 1962: Terrorists throw four hand grenades into a crowded village theater near Can Tho, killing 24 women and children. In all, 108 persons are killed or injured.

April 8, 1962: Communists execute two wounded American prisoners of war near the village of An Chau in Central Viet-Nam. Each, hands tied, is shot in the face because he cannot keep up with the retreating captors.

May 19, 1962: A terrorist grenade is hurled into the Aterbea restaurant in Saigon, wounding a Berlin circus manager and the cultural attache from the German Embassỵ

May 20, 1962: A bomb explodes in front of the Hung Dao Hotel, Saigon, a billet for American servicemen, injuring eight Vietnamese and three Americans who are in the street at the timẹ

June 12, 1962: Communists ambush a civilian passenger bus near Le Tri, An Giang province, killing the passengers, the driver and the driver's helper, a total of five men and women.

October 20, 1962: A teenage communist hurls a grenade into a holiday crowd in downtown Saigon, killing six persons, including two children, and injuring 38 persons.

November 4, 1962: A terrorist hurls a grenade into an alley in Can Tho, killing one American serviceman and two Vietnamese children. A third Vietnamese child is seriously injured.

January 25, 1963: Communists dynamite a passenger freight train near Qui Nhon, killing eight passengers and injuring 15 others. The train is carrying only rice as freight.

March 4, 1963: Two Protestant missionaries-Elwood Forreston, an American, and Gaspart Makil, a Filipino, are shot dead at a road block between Saigon and Dalat. The Makil twin babies are shot and wounded.

March 16, 1963: Terrorists hurl a grenade into a Saigon home where and American family is having dinner, killing a French businessman and wounding four other persons, on of them a woman.

April 3, 1963: Terrorists throw two grenades into a private school near Long Xuyen, An Gian province, Killing a teacher and two other adults. Students are performing their annual variety show at the timẹ

April 4, 1963: Terrorists throw grenades into an audience attending an outdoor motion picture showing in Cao Lanh village in the Mekong Delta, killing four persons and wounding 11.

May 23, 1963: Two powerful explosions set off by terrorists on bicycles kill two Vietnamese and wound ten others in Saigon. Police believe the explosion was accidentally prematurẹ

September 12, 1963: Miss Vo Thi Lo, 26, a schoolteacher in An Phuoc, Kien Hoa province, is found near the village with her throat cut. She had been kidnaped three days earlier.

October 16, 1963: Terrorists explode mines under two civilian buses in Kien Hoa and Quang Tin provinces, killing 18 Vietnamese and wounding 23.

November 9, 1963: Three grenades are thrown in Saigon, injuring a total of 16 persons, including four children; the first is thrown in a main street, the second along the waterfront, and the third in the Chinese residential areạ

February 9, 1964: Two Americans are killed and 41 wounded, including four women and five children, when a communist bomb is set off in a sports stadium during a softball gamẹ A second portion of the bomb fails to explodẹ Officials estimate that if it had, fifty persons would have died.

February 16, 1964: Three Americans are killed and 32 injured, most of them ỤS. dependents, when terrorists bomb the Kinh Do movie theater in Saigon.

July 14, 1964: Pham Thao, chairman of the catholic Action Committee in Quang Ngai, is executed when he returns to his native village of Pho Loi, Quang Ngai provincẹ

October, 1964: ỤS. officials in Saigon report that from January to October of 1964 the communists killed 429 Vietnamese local officials and kidnapped 482 others.

December 24, 1964: A Christmas eve bomb explosion at the Brink officers' billet kills two Americans and injures 50 Americans and 13 Vietnamesẹ

February 6, 1965: Radio Liberation announces that the communists have shot two American prisoners of war as reprisals against the Vietnamese government, which had sentenced two terrorists to death.

February 10, 1965: Terrorists blow up an enlisted men's barracks in Qui Nhon, killing 23 Americans.

March 30, 1965: A bomb explodes outside the American Embassy in Saigon, killing 2 Americans, 18 Vietnamese and injuring 100 Vietnamese and 45 Americans.

June 24, 1965: Radio Liberation announces the execution of an American prisoner.

June 25, 1965: Terrorists dynamite the My Canh restaurant in Saigon, killing 27 Vietnamese, 12 Americans, two Filipinos, one Frenchman, one German; more than 80 persons are injured.

June 1965: Vietnamese officials report the rate of assassinations and kidnappings of rural officials has double din June over May and April; 224 officials were either killed or kidnaped.

August 18, 1965: A bomb at the Police Directorate office in Saigon kills six and wounds 15.

October 4, 1965: One of two planted bombs explodes at the Cong Hoa National Sports Stadium, killing eleven Vietnamese, including four children, and wounding 42 persons.

October 5, 1965: A bomb goes off, apparently prematurely, in a taxi on a main street in downtown Saigon, killing two Vietnamese and wounding ten others.

December 4, 1965: In Saigon a terrorist bomb kills eight persons when it explodes in front of a billet for ỤS. enlisted men; 137 are injured, including 72 Americans, three New Zealanders and 62 Vietnamesẹ

December 12, 1965: Two terrorist platoons kill 23 Vietnamese canal construction workers asleep in a Buđhist Pagoda in Tan Huong, Dinh Tuong province; wound seven others.

December 30, 1965: Saigon editor Tu Chung of the newspaper Chinh Luan is gunned down in point blank fire as he arrives home at noon for lunch. Earlier he had published the texts of threatening notes he had received from the communists.

January 7, 1966: A Claymore mine explodes at Tan Son Nhut gate (entrance to Saigon airport), killing two persons and injuring 12.

January 17,1966: Communists in Kien Tuong detonate a mine under a highway bus, killing 26 civilians, seven of them children. Eight persons are injured and three are listed as mission.

January 18, 1966: Communists mine a bus in Kien Tuong province, killing 26 civilians.

January 29, 1966: Terrorists kill a Catholic priest, Father Phan Khac Dau, 74, at Thanh Tri, Kien tuong provincẹ Five other civilians, including a church officer, are also killed. The marauders desecrate the church, destroying its statuary and religious artifacts.

February 2, 1966: A communist squad ambushes a jeep load of Vietnamese information workers, killing six and wounding one: in Hau Nghia provincẹ

February 14, 1966: Two mines explode beneath a bus and a three- wheeled taxi on a road near Tuy Hoa, killing 48 farm laborers and injuring seven others.

March 18, 1966: Fifteen Vietnamese civilians are killed and four injured by the explosion of a homemade mine on a country road eight kilometers west of Tuy Hoa, Phu Yen provincẹ

May 22, 1966: Terrorists kill 18 sleeping men, a woman and four children during an attack on a housing center for canal workers in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. "We are doing this to teach you a lesson," a communist cadre is reported to have said just before he pulled the trigger.

September 10, 1966: On the eve of South Vietnam's Constituent assembly elections, communists stage 166 separate incidents of intimidation, abduction and assassination, Polling places also are destroyed.

September 11, 1966: On election day, communists kill 19 voters wound 120, in fire on polling places, mining of roads, and in individual assassinations.

September 24, 1966: American troops free eleven persons from a communist "jail" in Phu Yen province who report that 70 fellow prisoners were deliberately starved to death and 20 others tortured until they died.

October 11, 1966: Acting on information from a 14-year old boy, allied forces discover a prison complex in Binh Dinh province containing the bodies of 12 Vietnamese who had been machine gunned and grenaded by fleeing guards.

October 22, 1966: A youth worker in Binh Chanh, Gia Dinh province, is shot and killed by raiders while asleep in his homẹ

October 24, 1966: The Hue-Quang Tri bus runs over a mine in Phong Dien district, Thua Thien province; 15 passengers are injured.

October 27, 1966: A grenade is thrown into a home in Ban Me Thout, Darlac province, killing a 63-year old man and a nine- month old child; seven other persons , six of them women, are wounded.

October 28, 1966: An alert policeman arrests a female communist agent who is about to place a time-bomb under the reviewing stand at a festival in Khanh Hung (Soc Trang), Ba Xuyen provincẹ

November 1, 1966: Communists direct long-range recoilless rifle fire into downtown Saigon during National Day celebration killing or wounding 51 persons.

November 2, 1966: A grenade is thrown by a terrorist at Phu Tho racetrack, Saigon, killing two persons and wounding eight others, including two children.

November 2, 1966: A squad of armed guerrillas attacks a hamlet in Chau Thanh district, Phong Dinh province, then withdraw after detonating a 10-kilogram charge which wrecks a steel bridge across the Dau Sau canal. An aged woman and two children are wounded.

November 3, 1966: Communist squads infiltrate the outskirts of Saigon, fire 24 recoilless rifle shells on the citỵ Among the buildings hit are Saigon Central Market, Grall Hospital, Saigon Cathedral, a seminary chapel and several private homes. Eight persons are killed and 37 seriously wounded.

November 4, 1966: Communists lob mortar shells into a village in Hau Nghia province, killing one civilian and wounding eight.

November 4, 1966: Communist attack an outpost in Tay Ninh province, killing six civilians and wounding Revolutionary Development team members.

November 7, 1966: A communist squad on Provincial Road 8, Quang Duc province, abducts a hamlet chief and deputy chief.

November 8, 1966: In Chau Doc province, a 53-year old woman is tortured and shot to death; a note pinned to her body accuses her of supporting the South Vietnamese government.

November 16, 1966: A terrorist bomb-laden bicycle on Nguyen Van Thoai Street, Saigon, explodes; two South Vietnamese soldiers and a civilian are wounded.

November 19, 1966: Eight mortar rounds on Can Giuoc, Long An province, kill two children; 12 civilians are wounded some 20 mortar rounds drop on Can Duoc, wounding five civilians.

November 20, 1966: Two policemen are wounded when they attempt to remove several communist banners equipped with explosive devices.

November 23, 1966: Three terrorists dressed in South Vietnamese army uniforms kill a policeman guarding a bridge at Khanh Hung (Soc Trang), Ba Xuyen provincẹ While escaping, they throw two grenades, wounding seven civilians and two soldiers.

November 26, 1966: A Claymore-type mine is set off in the playground of the Trinh Hoai Duc boys' school, An Thanh, Binh Duong provincẹ Korean troops are using adjacent area as a training sitẹ Three Koreans are killed and a Vietnamese student is wounded.

November 30, 1966: Communist shell Tan Uyen market, Bien Hoa province, killing three civilians and wounding seven.

December 4, 1966: A village chief in Gia Dinh province is abducted from his home in Phu Lam by four men and assassinated by rifle firẹ

December 7, 1966: Tran Van Van, Constituent Assemblyman, is assassinated while en route to the National Assembly building; death weapon is a .32 caliber East German pistol; his killers are captured.

December 10, 1966: A terrorist throw a grenade into the Chieu Hoi district playground, Binh Duong City, severely injuring three children.

December 10, 1966: A taxi on Highway 29, Phong Dinh province runs over a minẹ Five passengers, all women, are killed and the driver badly wounded.

December 13, 1966: Revolutionary Development personnel attend a course at the Ca Mau school, An Xuyen province; a charge explodes in the classroom, killing three and wounding ninẹ

December 20, 1966: A squad infiltrates a hamlet in Quang Tin province, kidnaps a former Viet Cong member who recently defected, carries him to another location and shoots him.

December 27, 1966: National Constituent Assemblyman, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, narrowly escapes death when his car explodes in Gia Dinh provincẹ A charge is concealed beneath the vehicle and detonates as Dr. Dan opens the door. Dan escapes with minor wounds but a woman passerby is killed and five civilians wounded. January 6, 1967: A South Vietnamese policeman kin Tan Chu, Kien Phong province, is shot and killed while members of his family look on.

January 7, 1967: An explosion destroys a school and health station in Hong Ngu district, Kien Phong provincẹ

January 8, 1967: In An Xuyen province, terrorists throw a grenade into the house of a hamlet chief. One of the children is killed and three other civilians are wounded.

January 12, 1967: Three civilians are killed and three South Vietnamese soldiers are wounded in an ambush of a truck on National Highway 14, two kilometers south of Tan Canh villagẹ

January 15, 1967: At Thanh Tho, Quang Tin province, communists shoot a merchant when he refuses to give them two oxen.

January 21, 1967: Several communists force their way into Buon Ho, Darlac province, gather the people for a propaganda lecture; kidnap six young men.

February 6, 1967: Communists raid Lieu Tri, Quang Tin province, and abduct a teacher and a local officials. The teacher is killed.

February 6, 1967: A grenade is thrown onto the porch where Kontum deputy province chief is entertaining a group of South Vietnamese officials. The provincial Chief of Education is killed instantly; the Chief of Montagnard Affairs and another official die of wounds the next daỵ Eight other are seriously wounded.

March 4, 1967: Only two badly wounded prisoners survive as communist prison guards near Can Tho tie 12 South Vietnamese captives together, shoot and stab them before fleeing from advancing South Vietnamese troops; both survivors live despite having their throats cut.

March 5, 1976: In an nocturnal raid, terrorists murder two young Revolutionary Development workers in Vinh Phu, Phu Yen provincẹ Seven ađitional Revolutionary Development team members are killed in the ensuing gunfight and four are wounded. The raid is the 113th attach on Revolutionary Development workers since the first of the year.

March 30, 1967: Recoilless rifle fire directed at homes of families of South Vietnamese troops demolishes 200 houses and kills 32 men, women and children in the capital city of Bac Lieu provincẹ

April 13, 1967: A South Vietnamese entertainment troupe is the target of nocturnal raid in Lu Song hamlet, near Da Nang. The team chief and his deputy are killed; two team members are wounded.

April 14, 1967: Terrorists kidnap Nguyen Van Son in Binh Chanh district, Gia Dinh province; he is a candidate inthe elections for village council.

April 16, 1967: A squad enters Cam Ha, Quang Nam province and murders an election candidatẹ One child is killed and three civilians are wounded.

April 18, 1967: Sui Chon hamlet northeast of Saigon is attacked by assassins and arsonists who slay five Revolutionary Development team members, wound three, abduct seven; three of those slain are young girls, whose hands are tied behind their backs before they are shot in the head. One-third of the hamlet's dwelling is destroyed by firẹ

April 26, 1967: Nguyen Cam, chief of Ba Dan hamlet, Quang Nam province, is shot and killed by a terrorist. Cam had been a candidate in recent elections.

May 10, 1967: A bus loaded with South Vietnamese civilians runs over a land mine near Than Bach Thach, Phu Bon provincẹ One passenger is killed; the driver and five passengers are wounded.

May 11, 1967: More than 200 doctors and medical workers of the Republic of South Viet-Nam have been victims of the communists in the past 10 years, State Health Secretary Dr. Tran Van Lu-Y tells the World Health Organization in Genevạ He says 211 members of his staff have been killed or kidnaped; 174 dispensaries, maternity homes and hospitals destroyed; 40 ambulance mined or machine-gunned.

May 16, 1967: In two separate attacks in Quang Tin and Quang Tri provinces, communists kill eight Revolutionary Development team members and injure fivẹ

May 24, 1967: The information officer of Phu Thanh, Bien Hoa province, and his two children are killed by grenades thrown into their home at 3 ạm.

May 29, 1967: Frogmen emerge from the Perfume River in Hue to blow up a hotel housing members of the International Control Commission. No member of the Indian-Canadian-Polish team is hurt, but five South Vietnamese civilians are killed and 15 wounded. The hotel is 80 percent destroyed.

June 2, 1967: Armed with automatic weapons, two platoons make a post-midnight raid on a Chieu Hoi camp in Long An. they injure five South Vietnamese soldiers and five civilians.

June 27, 1967: Twenty-three civilians are killed when their bus strikes a mine in Binh Duong province, southeast of Lai Khẹ

July 6, 1967: Several children walking on the road to a pagoda at Cam Pho hamlet, Quang Nam province, are wounded when a passing truck explodes a Viet-Cong antitank minẹ One child dies of wounds.

July 13, 1967: An explosion in a Hue restaurant kills two Vietnamesẹ Twelve Vietnamese, seven Americans and one Filipino are injured.

July 14, 1967: Terrorists dressed in Vietnamese Army uniforms capture a prison in Quang Nam province, releasing about 1,000 of the 1,200 inmates; they execute 30 in the prison yard. Ten civilians are killed and 29 wounded as the terrorists fight their way out of the areạ

July 25, 1967: Communists appear at homes in Binh Trieu, Long An province and kidnap four men, a woman and the woman's 16-year-old son. All six are found the following morning along Highway 13, hands tied behind their backs, a bullet in each head.

August 5, 1967: During a special devices class in a secondary school in An Xuyen province, part of the September election "get out the vote" campaign, a terrorist gives a small girl a hand grenade with the pin extracted and tells her to carry it carefully to her teacher. At the classroom door the child drops the grenade, killing herself and injuring nine children.

August 24, 1967: Terrorists kill one and wound four when they detonate a charge at the home of a Vietnamese policeman in Can Tho, Phong Dinh provincẹ

August 26, 1967: Twenty-two civilians die and six are injured when their bus strikes a mine in Kien Hoa provincẹ

August 27, 1967: A week before presidential and senate elections, terrorists step up their activities. A recoilless rifle and mortar attack on Can Tho kills 46 and injures 227. Ten die and ten are injured in an attack on a Revolutionary Development team in Phuoc Long provincẹ Fourteen civilians, including five children, are wounded by mortar fire southeast of Ban Me Thuot, Darlac provincẹ Two civilians die and one is wounded in an attack on a hamlet in Binh Long provincẹ Six civilians are kidnaped from Phuoc Hung village in Thua Thien provincẹ

August 29, 1967: Groups of communists infiltrate four hamlets in Thanh Binh district, Quang Nam province, kill two civilians and abduct six, including an inter-family chief.

September 1, 1967: Terrorist explosives blast six craters in National Route 4 in Dinh Tuong province, stopping all vehicular traffic except a South Vietnamese army ambulance bus which runs over a pressure mine, killing 13 passengers, injuring 23.

September 3, 1967: Shortly after polls open in Tuy Hoa, Phu Yen province, communists detonate a bomb hiđen in a polling placẹ Three voters are killed and 42 are wounded. Election morning attacks, including long-range shellings, claim 48 lives.

November 8, 1967: The Ky Chanh refugee center in Quang Tin province is infiltrated by terrorists who kill four persons, wound nine others and kidnap nine more; they also fire the camp's school.

December 5, 1967: A name that should be remembered as long as Lidice is Dak Son, a Montagnard village of some 2,000 in Phuoc Long province, the scene of what in some ways remains the worst atrocity in the entire atrocity-riđen war. Some 300 communists stage a reprisal raid on Dak Son. The chief weapon: the flame thrower, 60 of them. The purpose: purely to terrorizẹ The result: a Carhaginian solution, all but sowing of the salt. After breaking through the flimsy hamlet militia defense, the communists set about systematically to destroy the village and the people in it. Families are incinerated alive in their grass-roofed huts or in the shelters dug beneath their beds. Everything combustible is put to the torch: houses, recently harvested grain on the ground, livestock, fences, trees, peoplẹ One of the first Americans to approach the scene the following day: "As we approached the place I thought I saw charred cordwood piled up the way you pile up logs neatly beside the road. When we got closer I could see it was burned bodies of several dozen babies. The odor of burned flesh, which really is an unforgettable smell, reached us outside the village and of course got stronger at the center. People were trying to breath through cabbage leaves . . . I saw a small boy a smaller girl, probably his sister, sort of melted together in a charred embracẹ I saw a mother burned black still hiding two children, also burned black. Everything was burned and black. The worst was the wail of the survivors who were picking through the smoldering ruins. One man kept screaming and screaming at the top of his lungs. For an hour he kept it up. He wasn't hurt that I could tell. He just kept screaming until a doctor gave him a shot of morphine or something . . . Fire bloats bodies I learned, and after a few hours the skin splits and peels and curls . . . The far end of the village wasn't burned; the communists ran out of flamethrower fuel before they got to it . . ." Estimated toll: 252 dead, about two-thirds of them women and children; 200 abducted, never to return.

Dec. 14, 1967: Bui Quang San, member of South Viet-Nam's lower house, is gunned down in his home near Saigon. Two days before his murder, San told friends of receiving a letter from the communists threatening his lifẹ His mother, first wife and six children were killed in an earlier Vietnamese Communist raid the city of Hoi An.

December 14, 1967: Saigon reports a total of 232 civilians killed by acts of terrorism in one week.

December 16, 1967: During the intermission at a classical drama at the University of Saigon, a communist appears on stage and begins a propaganda speech about the NLF. A student attempts to climb to the stage and is shot in the stomach. Two other students are shot in the melee that follows.

January 20, 1968: An armed propaganda team enters Tam Quan, Binh Dinh province, gathers 100 people for a propaganda session; one prominent village elder objects and is shot to death.

January 30, 1968: On the night of the new moon marking the new lunar year during a negotiated truce, a Vietnamese communist force of approximately 12,000 invaded Hue quickly turned it into one of the sađest cities on Earth.

The communists stayed for 26 days, during which time they executed nearly 6,000 Hue civilians who the National Liberation Front Central Committee had blacklisted as enemies of Communism. After being forced to withdraw from Hue, South Vietnamese officials found the bodies of over 3,000 men and women buried in a river bed with their hands tied behind them. Many had been buried alivẹ

April 6, 1968: A band of communists enters That Vinh Dong, Tay Ninh province; they sell several thousand piasters worth of "war bonds" and then depart, taking with them a school teacher, the hamlet chief's two daughters and nephew and six other males age 15 or 16.

May 5 - June 22, 1968: Some 417 rockets are fired indiscriminately into Saigon, chiefly in the densely-populated Fourth District. The rockets are 107mm Chinese-made and 122mm Soviet-madẹ Result: 115 dead, 528 hospitalized.

May 29, 1968: A band of communists stops all traffic on Route 155 in Vinh Binh province; 50 civilians are kidnaped, including a Protestant minister; 2 buses and 28 three-wheeled taxis are burned.

June 28, 1968: A major attack is made against the refugee center and fishing village of Son Tra, south of Da Nang. In all, 88 persons are killed and 103 are wounded by mortar and machine gun fire, grenades and explosive charges. Some 450 homes are destroyed leaving 3,000 of the 5,000 persons there homeless. Later, villagers gathering bamboo to rebuild the center are fired on from ambush.

July 28, 1968: Four gun-wielding terrorists, two of them women, detonate a 60-pound plastique charge in city room of Cholon Daily News, most prominent of citýs seven Chinese-language newspapers, after ordering workers out of building; the four escape before police arrivẹ

September 1, 1968: Doctors at the American Division's 27th Surgical Hospital report two Montagnard women have been brought in for treatment for advanced anemiạ It is determined that the North Vietnamese had been systematically draining them of blood for treating their own wounded.

September 12, 1968: A communist report (captured in Binh Duong province) from the Chau Thanh district Security Section to the provincial party Central Committee says that seven prisoners in the district's custody were shot prior to an expected enemy sweep operation: "we killed them to make possible our safe escape," the report says.

September 26, 1968: A grenade is thrown into the crowded Saigon central market, killing one person and wounding 11.

December 11, 1968: A band of terrorists appears at the home of the provincial Peoplés SelfĐefense Force chief in Tri Ton, Chau Doc province; they bind his arms with rope and lead him 50 yards from his home where they fire a burst from a submachine gun into his bodỵ

January 6, 1969: The Vietnamese Minister of Education, Dr. Le Minh Tri, is killed when