ThichNhatHanh: One time I learned that the city of Ben Tre, a city of three hundred thousand people, was bombarded by American aviation just because some guerillas came to the city and .... And the city was destroyed.

[Tuyết Mai]

http://www.baodongkhoi.com.vn/?act=detail&id=29652

Cập nhật: 14 / 12 / 2012
TP. Bến Tre

Hoàn thành Đại hội Công đoàn cấp trên cơ sở

Tiết mục văn nghệ chào mừng Đại hội.
Trong hai ngày 12 và 13-12-2012, Liên đoàn Lao động (LĐLĐ) TP. Bến Tre
tổ chức Đại hội Công đoàn cấp trên cơ sở, nhiệm kỳ 2013-2018. Đồng chí
Lê Văn Quyền - Chủ tịch LĐLĐ tỉnh, đồng chí Nguyễn Tấn Đạt - Bí thư
Thành ủy TP. Bến Tre đến dự.

Đại biểu đã bầu Ban Chấp hành mới gồm 21 đồng chí (19 đại biểu chính
thức và 2 đại biểu dự khuyết) tham dự Đại hội Công đoàn tỉnh khóa IX.
Đồng chí Phạm Hòa giữ chức danh Chủ tịch LĐLĐ TP. Bến Tre.

[Tuyết Mai]

Teaching and preaching: How to cheat people while you are in the
"Buhdda Temple" and dressed as an Egghead Monk.



======== FWD:


thezensite http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Essence_of_compassion.html
A Public Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh at the Riverside Church, New York

Thich Nhat Hanh
from: Making Sense of These Times

September 25, 2001

My Dear friends, I would like to tell you how I practice when I get
angry. During the war in Vietnam, there was a lot of injustice, and
many thousands, including friends of mine, many disciples of mine,
were killed. I got very angry. One time I learned that the city of Ben
Tre, a city of three hundred thousand people, was bombarded by
American aviation just because some guerillas came to the city and
tried to shoot down American aircrafts. The guerillas did not succeed,
and after that they went away. And the city was destroyed. And the
military man who was responsible for that declared later that he had
to destroy the city of Ben Tre to save it. I was very angry.

But at that time, I was already a practitioner, a solid practitioner.
I did not say anything, I did not act, because I knew that acting or
saying things while you are angry is not wise. It may create a lot of
destruction. I went back to myself, recognizing my anger, embracing
it, and looked deeply into the nature of my suffering.

In the Buddhist tradition, we have the practice of mindful breathing,
of mindful walking, to generate the energy of mindfulness. It is
exactly with that energy of mindfulness that we can recognize,
embrace, and transform our anger. Mindfulness is the kind of energy
that helps us to be aware of what is going on inside of us and around
us, and anybody can be mindful. If you drink a cup of tea and you know
that you are drinking a cup of tea, that is mindful drinking. When you
breathe in and you know that you are breathing in, and you focus your
attention on your in-breath, that is mindfulness of breathing. When
you make a step and you are aware you are making a step, that is
called mindfulness of walking. The basic practice in Zen centers,
meditation centers, is the practice of generating mindfulness every
moment of your daily life. When you are angry, you are aware that you
are angry. Because you already have the energy of mindfulness in you
created by the practice, that is why you have enough of it in order to
recognize, embrace, look deeply, and understand the nature of your
suffering.

I was able to understand the nature of the suffering in Vietnam. I saw
that not only Vietnamese suffered, but Americans suffered as well
during the war in Vietnam. The young American man who was sent to
Vietnam in order to kill and be killed underwent a lot of suffering,
and the suffering continues today. The family, the nation also
suffers. I could see that the cause of our suffering in Vietnam is not
American soldiers. It is a kind of policy that is not wise. It is a
misunderstanding. It is fear that lies at the foundation of the
policy.

Many in Vietnam had burned themselves in order to call for a cessation
of the destruction. They did not want to inflict pain on other people,
they wanted to take the pain on themselves in order to get the message
across. But the sounds of planes and bombs was too loud. The people in
the world, not many of them were capable of hearing us. So I decided
to go to America and call for a cessation of the violence. That was in
1966, and because of that I was prevented from going home. And I have
lived in exile since that time, 1966.

I was able to see that the real enemy of man is not man. The real
enemy is our ignorance, discrimination, fear, craving, and violence. I
did not have hate the American people, the American nation. I came to
America in order to plead for a kind of looking deeply so that your
government could revise that kind of policy. I remember I met with
Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara. I told him the truth about the
suffering. He kept me with him for a long time and he listened deeply
to me, and I was very grateful for his quality of listening. Three
months later, when the war intensified, I heard that he resigned from
his post.

Hatred and anger was not in my heart. That is why I was listened to by
many young people in my country, advocating them to follow the path of
reconciliation, and together we helped to bring about the new
organizations for peace in Paris. I hope my friends here in New York
are able to practice the same. I understood, I understand suffering
and injustice, and I feel that I understand deeply the suffering of
New York, of America. I feel I am a New Yorker. I feel I am an
American.

You want to be there for you, to be with you, not to act, not to say
things when you are not calm. There are ways that we can go back to
ourselves and practice so that we rediscover our calmness, our
tranquility, our lucidity. There are ways that we can practice so that
we understand the real causes of the suffering. And that understanding
will help us to do what needs to be done, and not do what could be
harmful to us and to other people. Let us practice mindful breathing
for half a minute before we continue.

In Buddhist psychology, we speak of consciousness in terms of seeds.
We have the seed of anger in our consciousness. We have the seed of
despair, of fear. But we also have the seed of understanding, wisdom,
compassion, and forgiveness. If we know how to water the seed of
wisdom and compassion in us, that seed, these seeds will manifest
themselves as powerful sorts of energy helping us to perform an act of
forgiveness and compassion. It will be able to bring relief right away
to our nation, to our world. That is my conviction.

I believe very strongly that the American people have a lot of wisdom
and compassion within themselves. I want you to be your best when you
begin to act, for the sake of America and for the sake of the world.
With lucidity, with understanding and compassion, you will turn to the
people who have caused a lot of damage and suffering to you and ask
them a lot of questions.

"We do not understand enough of your suffering, could you tell us? We
have not done anything to you, we have not tried to destroy you, to
discriminate against you, and we do not understand why you have done
this to us. There must be a lot of suffering within you. We want to
listen to you. We may be able to help you. And together we can help
build peace in the world." And if you are solid, if you are
compassionate when you make this statement, they will tell you about
their suffering.

In Buddhism we speak of the practice of deep listening, compassionate
listening, a wonderful method by which we can restore communication –
communication between partners, communication between father and son,
communication between mother and daughter, communication between
nations. The practice of deep listening should be taken up by parents,
by partners, so that they can understand the suffering of the other
person. That person might beour wife, our husband, our son, or our
daughter. We may have enough good will to listen, but many of us have
lost our capacity to listen because we have a lot of anger and
violence in us. The other people do not know how to use kind speech;
they always blame and judge. And language is very often sour, bitter.
That kind of speech will always touch off the irritation and the anger
in us and prevent us from listening deeply and with compassion. That
is why good will to listen is not enough. We need some training in
order to listen deeply with compassion. I think, I believe, I have the
conviction, that a father, if he knows how to listen to his son deeply
and with compassion, he will be able to open the door of his sons
heart and restore communication.

People in our Congress and our Senate should also train themselves in
the art of deep listening, of compassionate listening. There is a lot
of suffering within the country, and many people feel their suffering
is not understood. That is why politicians, members of the Parliament,
members of the Congress have to train themselves in the art of deep
listening – listening to their own people, listening to the suffering
in the country, because there is injustice in the country, there is
discrimination in the country. There is a lot of anger in the country.
If we can listen to each other, we can also listen to the people
outside of the country. Many of them are in a situation of despair,
many suffer because of injustice and discrimination. The amount of
violence and despair in them is very huge. And if we know how to
listen as a nation to their suffering, we can already bring a lot of
relief. They will feel that they are being understood. That can
diffuse the bomb already.

I always advise a couple that when they are angry with each other,
they should go back to their breathing, their mindful walking, embrace
their anger, and look deeply into the nature of their anger. And they
may be able to transform that anger in just fifteen minutes or a few
hours. If they cannot do that, then they will have to tell the other
person that they suffer, that they are angry, and that they want the
other person to know it. They will try to say it in a calm way.
"Darling, I suffer, and I want you to know it." And in Plum Village,
where I live and practice, we advise our friends not to keep their
anger for more than twenty-four hours without telling the other
person. "Darling, I suffer, and I want you to know it. I do not know
why you have done such a thing to me. I do not know why you have said
such a thing to me." That is the first thing they should tell the
other person. And if they are not calm enough to say it, they can
write it down on a piece of paper.

The second thing they can say or write down is, "I am doing my best."
It means "I am practicing not to say anything, not to do anything with
anger, because I know that in doing so I will create more suffering.
So I am embracing my anger, I am looking deeply into the nature of my
anger." You tell the other person that you are practicing holding your
anger, understanding your anger, in order to find out whether that
anger has come from your own misunderstanding, wrong perception, your
lack of mindfulness and your lack of skillfulness.

And the third thing you might like to say to him or her is, "I need
your help." Usually when we get angry with someone, we want to do the
opposite. We want to say, "I don't need you. I can survive by myself
alone." "I need your help" means "I need your practice, I need your
deep looking, I need you to help me to overcome this anger because I
suffer." And if I suffer, there is no way that you can be happy,
because happiness is not an individual matter. If the other person
suffers, there is no way that you can be truly happy alone. So helping
the other person to suffer less, to smile, will make you happy also.

The Buddha said, "This is like this, because that is like that. This
is because that is." The three sentences I propose are the language of
true love. It will inspire the other person to practice, to look
deeply, and together you will bring about understanding and
reconciliation. I propose to my friends to write down these sentences
on a piece of paper and slip it into their wallet. Every time they get
angry at their partner or their son or daughter, they can practice
mindful breathing, take it out, and read. It will be a bell of
mindfulness telling them what to do and what not to do. These are the
three sentences: "I suffer and I want you to know it." "I am doing my
best." "Please help."

I believe that in an international conflict, the same kind of practice
is possible also. That is why I propose to America as a nation to do
the same. You tell the people you believe to be the cause of your
suffering that you suffer, that you want them to know it, that you
want to know why they have done such a thing to you, and you practice
listening deeply and with compassion.

The quality of our being is very important, because that question,
that statement is not a condemnation, but a willingness to create true
communication. "We are ready to listen to you. We know that you must
have suffered a lot in order to have done such a thing to us. You may
have thought that we are the cause of your suffering. So please tell
us whether we have tried to destroy you, whether we have tried to
discriminate against you, so that we can understand. And we know that
when we understand your suffering, we may be able to help you." That
is what we call in Buddhism "loving speech" or "kind language," and it
has the purpose of creating communication, restoring communication.
And with communication restored, peace will be possible.

This summer, a group of Palestinians came to Plum Village and
practiced together with a group of Israelis, a few dozen of them. We
sponsored their coming and practicing together. In two weeks, they
learned to sit together, walk mindfully together, enjoy silent meals
together, and sit quietly in order to listen to each other. The
practice taken up was very successful. At the end of the two weeks
practice, they gave us a wonderful, wonderful report. One lady said,
"Thay, this is the first time in my life that I see that peace in the
Middle East is possible." Another young person said, "Thay, when I
first arrived in Plum Village, I did not believe that Plum Village was
something real because in the situation of my country, you live in
constant fear and anger. When your children get onto the bus, you are
not sure that they will be coming home. When you go to the market, you
are not sure that you will survive to go home to your family. When you
come to Plum Village, you see people looking at each other with loving
kindness, talking with other kindly, walking peacefully, and doing
everything mindfully. We did not believe that it was possible. It did
not look real to me."

But in the peaceful setting of Plum Village, they were able to be
together, to live together, and to listen to each other, and finally
understanding came. They promised that when they returned to the
Middle East, they would continue the practice. They will organize a
day of practice every week at the local level and a day of mindfulness
at the national level. And they plan to come to Plum Village as a
bigger group to continue the practice.

I think that if nations like America can organize that kind of setting
where people can come together and spend their time practicing peace,
then they will be able to calm down their feelings, their fears, and
peaceful negotiation will be much easier.

read an interview with Thich Nhat Hanh

[Tuyết Mai]

Thich Nhat Hanh should also preaching the world about Hue/Tet
offensive http://www.history.com/topics/tet-offensive by the VietCong
and Hanoi North Vietnamese Army (NVA

You R a pussy sucker Monk, ThichNhatHanh.


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The Battle of Hue

Early in their occupation of Hue, Viet Cong soldiers conducted house-
to-house searches, arresting civil servants, religious leaders,
teachers and other civilians connected with American forces or with
the South Vietnamese regime. They executed these so-called
counterrevolutionaries and buried their bodies in mass graves. U.S.
and ARVN forces discovered evidence of the massacre after they
regained control of the city on February 26. In addition to more than
2,800 bodies, another 3,000 residents were missing, and the occupying
forces had destroyed many of the once-grand city's temples, palaces
and other monuments.

The toughest fighting in Hue occurred at the citadel, which the
Communists struggled fiercely to hold against superior U.S. firepower.
In scenes of carnage recorded on film by numerous television crews on
the scene, nearly 150 U.S. Marines were killed in the Battle of Hue,
along with some 400 South Vietnamese troops. On the Communist side, an
estimated 5,000 soldiers were killed, most of them hit by American air
and artillery strikes.

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Massacre at Hue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Hue

The Huế Massacre (Vietnamese: Thảm sát tại Huế Tết Mậu Thân or
Vietnamese: thảm sát Tết Mậu Thân ở Huế) is the name given to the
summary executions and mass killings perpetrated by the Viet Cong and
North Vietnamese Army during their capture, occupation and later
withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tet Offensive, considered
one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.

During the months and years that followed the Battle of Huế, which
began on January 31, 1968, and lasted a total of 28 days, dozens of
mass graves were discovered in and around Huế. The estimated death
toll was between 2,800 to 6,000 civilians and prisoners of war were
buried.[1] Victims were found bound, tortured, and sometimes
apparently buried alive.

A number of U.S. and South Vietnamese authorities as well a number of
journalists who investigated the events took the discoveries, along
with other evidence, as proof that a large-scale atrocity had been
carried out in and around Huế during its four-week occupation. The
killings were perceived as part of a large-scale purge of a whole
social stratum, including anyone friendly to American forces in the
region

Executions

The Viet Cong set up provisional authorities shortly after capturing
Huế in the early hours of January 31, 1968, and was charged with
removing the existing government administration from power within the
city and replacing it with a "revolutionary administration." Working
from lists of "cruel tyrants and reactionary elements" previously
developed by VC intelligence officers, many people were to be rounded
up following the initial hours of the attack. These included Army of
the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers, civil servants, political
party members, local religious leaders, American civilians and other
foreigners.

These individuals, according to Viet Cong documents captured during
and after the siege, were to be taken out of the city and held and
punished for their “crimes against the Vietnamese people”. The
disposition of those who were previously in control of the city was
carefully laid out, and the lists were detailed and extensive. Those
in the Saigon-based-state police apparatus at all levels were to be
rounded up and held outside the city. High civilian and military
officials were also removed from the city, both to await study of
their individual cases.

Ordinary civil servants who worked for "the Saigon enemy" out of
necessity, but did not oppose the communists, were destined for
reeducation and later employment. Low-level civil servants who had at
some point been involved in paramilitary activities were to be held
for reeducation, but not employed. There are documented cases of
individuals who were executed by the VC when they tried to hide or
otherwise resisted during the early stages of Huế's occupation.

Within days of the capture, US Marine Corps (USMC) and US Army as well
as ARVN infantry units were dispatched to counterattack and recaptured
the city after weeks of fierce fighting, during which the city and its
outlying areas were exposed to repeated shelling from US Navy ships
off the coast and numerous bombing runs by U.S. aircraft. It was
implied that during the USMC and ARVN attack, North Vietnam's forces
had rounded up those individuals whose names it had previously
collected and had them executed or sent North for reeducation.

It was determined by piecing together bits of information from several
sources that a large number of people had taken sanctuary from the
battle in a local church. Several hundred of these people were ordered
out to undergo indoctrination in the "liberated area" and told
afterwards they would be allowed to return home. After marching the
group south 9 kilometers, 20 of the people were separated, tried in a
kangaroo court, found guilty, executed and buried. The others were
taken across the river and turned over to a local Communist unit in an
exchange that even included written receipts.

Douglas Pike notes that, while “It is probable that the Commissar
intended that their prisoners should be reeducated and returned, but
with the turnover, matters passed from his control.” Sometime within
the following several weeks, the communists decided to kill the
individuals under their control. After being informed of this by VC
defectors, local authorities released a list of 428 names of people
they claimed were identified from the bones found over a 100 yard area
of the Da Mai creek bed.

Philip W. Manhard, a U.S. senior advisor in Huế province, was taken to
a POW camp by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and held until 1973.
Manhard recounted that during the NVA withdrawal from Huế, the NVA
summarily executed anyone in their custody who resisted being taken
out of the city or who was too old, too young, or too frail to make
the journey to the camp.

Captured in the home of Vietnamese friends, American Stephen Miller of
the U.S. Information Service was shot in a field behind a Catholic
seminary.[2] Courtney Niles, an American civilian working for NBC
International, was killed during an attack by communist forces while
in the presence of U.S soldiers.[3]

Three professors, members of the West German Cultural Mission who
taught at the Huế Faculty of Medicine, and the wife of one of the
professors, were arrested and executed by the North Vietnamese and
National Liberation Front during their recapture of Huế during the Tet
Offensive (Feb. 1968). Their bodies, along with those of scores of
Vietnamese civilians, who also were executed, were found April 5 in
mass graves near Huế. The slain Germans were Professor and Mrs. Horst
Krainick, Dr. Alois Altekoester, and Dr. Raimund Discher.[2]

Don Oberdorfer spent five days in late 1969 with Paul Vogle, an
American English professor at Huế University, going through Huế
interviewing witnesses of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
occupation. Oberdorfer classified all the killings into two
categories: the planned execution of government officials and their
families, political and civil servants, and collaborators with
Americans; and those civilians not connected to the government who ran
from questioning, who spoke harshly about the occupation, or who the
occupiers believed “displayed a bad attitude” towards the occupiers.

Oberdorfer reported that in the Catholic area of Huế, Phucam,
virtually every able-bodied man over the age of 15 who took refuge in
the cathedral was taken away and killed. In an interview with Ho Ty, a
VC commander who took part in the advanced planning of a general
uprising, Oberdorfer reported Ty's statement that the Communist party
"was particularly anxious to get those people at Phucam... The
Catholics were considered particular enemies of ours."

When Trương Như Tạng was appointed Vietcong justice minister soon
after Huế, he understood this to be a critical position because the
massacre had, "left us with a special need to address fears among the
Southern people that a revolutionary victory would bring with it a
bloodbath or reign of terror."[4] This was because, "large numbers of
people had been executed" including "captured American soldiers and
several other foreigners who were not combatants." According to Tạng,
"discipline in Hue was seriously inadequate" and "fanatic young
soldiers had indiscriminately shot people."[4] The massacre was, "one
of those terrible spontaneous tragedies that inevitably accompany
war."[4]

[Tuyết Mai]

FYI


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http://medicinthegreentime.com/chieu-hoi-leaflets/


Chieu Hoi Leaflets
Through the use of propaganda leaflets dropped by helicopters flying
over the jungle, the Chieu Hoi program (loosely translated as Open
Arms) sought to encourage the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army
to surrender to the Americans or South Vietnamese forces.

Soldiers of the 209th Regiment,7th Division, North Vietnam –
Attention!

TO THE COMMUNIST SOLDIERS OF REGIMENT 209,DIVISION 7

On the 27th of December, 80 of your comrades in Regiment 141 had to
sacrifice in a horrible death. Your 209th Regiment had suffered a
complete defeat during the Fall campaign.

Until now the ARVN and Allied troops have continued to pursue in order
to destroy your regiment. Therefore,it would be certain that it would
be your turn to be sacrificed pitifully and needlessly.

You should save yourself by rallying to the government side or allow
yourself to be captured as a POW of the RVN in order to escape death.

————–

COMMUNIST SOLDIERS: ATTENTION !!

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam and Allied Force are carrying out
the campaign of deforestation. During this,gigantic earth-movers have
uncovered and leveled many of your rice storages and secret tunnels.

Many of your comrades,forced to cross deforested areas,have
become targets of artillery fires and armed helicopters of the ARVN
and Allied Force.

10-1088-69

You will have no place to hide !!!

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WHAT WILL YOU CHOOSE IN THE NEW YEAR?
PEACE,HAPPINESS OR DEATH?

The Year of the Dog is returning to the Viet people! Everybody is
happy to gather the family together to greet the new spring. How many
Tet have you been away from home, do you know? Who forces you to make
such a sacrifice ?

Surely it cannot be the people of South Vietnam because at this moment
they are joyously greeting the Spring amidst their united and peaceful
family.

HAPPY NEW SPRING



You have to bear the sacrifice, to be away from home, away from your
loved ones because of the crazy ambition of the North Vietnamese
Communist leaders who want to also put the Southern part of Vietnam
under the slavery of the International Communists.

The coming of Spring brings new hope to us all, including you. The
prospect for Peace has appeared in the horizon, and this Year of the
Dog has to bring about a good future for our people,if you make an
early choice.

On the occasion of the new Spring, you should lean towards Peace,and
resolutely choose a path that is bright and full of meanings.

The path of Chieu Hoi (Rallying to the National Cause) of the RVN will
certainly help you realize this choice.

We sincerely wish you
success.
4-85-69

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HAPPY NEW SPRING

DON’T MAKE A MISSTEP AND NOT WALKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH YOUR LOVED ONE.













POEM:

This spring will be the third that is cold and lonely

My longing for you burns my heart every minute

Tet has everything-flowers,incense,firecrackers, lights and cakes

But without you I feel alone and shameful.

SOUTHERN OPERA MELODY (VONG CO):

This letter I send you with many prayers, I hope that you would
immediately leave the path of blindness, not to harm our country… I
believe that you are not one who betrays his love, or fails to fulfill
his filial duty… My darling,do you know how much father longs to see
you, how much mother cries days and nights because of you. I by myself
cannot take care of our fields and gardens,partly because of our young
children, every step is a difficult effort, our life is falling
increasingly into debt, and our family has to suffer setbacks and
declines. 4-83-69

——————



“CHIEU HOI” (Rallying to the Government’s Cause)
WILL BRING YOU
A LIFE OF
FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS
4-23-69

Happy New Year

Dear troops on the communist ranks:

The Spring in the Year of the Dog returns for all the Vietnamese,in
the North as well as the South. Every family are prepared to greet the
Spring in a feisty atmosphere according our people’s ancient customs.
How about you? There is a saying that “A child with a father is like a
house with a roof.” Regardless of how merry the Tet celebration
is,without the presence of the father,the family’s happiness is
incomplete. The family bond of the Vietnamese cannot be easily
overcome/disregarded/overlooked.

With Tet’s festivities,please take your time to really think and ask
yourself how many springs you have been away from home! Does your
sacrifice have any meaning,is it worthwhile? How many lonesome springs
have your wife, your children,and your parents had to suffer! Once
your patriotism has been abused by the communists,the only reasonable
thing left for you to do is to return to the true Nation,People, and
Family,so that you can have again the opportunity to fulfill the duty
of a son,a father and a husband.

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Left side: I have returned to the righteous cause
(Junior) colonel Tran van dac
Right side: I have returned to the righteous cause
Lieutenant Colonel Huynh Cu
Bottom: CHIEU HOI (rally to the government side)
IS THE PATH OF LIFE/SURVIVAL

DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF SACRIFICED NEEDLESSLY

In the directive no.1/4 dated April 2 1968 sent to units of “the
People’s Liberation Armed Force,”the Central Office of South Vietnam
(COSVN) has ordered commanders to engage in large battles to support
the negotiation in Paris even at the cost of heavy casualties. For
that reason,you have seen in the past days the pitiless death of many
of your comrades.

Can you and your comrades triumph in enslaving South Vietnam?
Certainly not. Because you are not on the side of the righteous cause,
your real strength is too weak to be compared to the ARVN and Allied
Troops, and esp. the bureaucratic commandism and pie-in-the-sky
approach of the party leadership and government in the North has led
you to many failures.

You are being used as sacrificial lambs by the Worker party leadership
to serve the interests of the Party. Think,dear friends! Many of your
high-leveled leaders have rallied to the side of the South Vietnamese
people. Why do you wait any longer instead of following their
examples? 2675

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TO OUR FRIENDS THE NORTH VIETNAMESE REGULAR TROOPS

Before the exceptional maturity of the ARVN and the strength of the
anticommunist resistance of all of the Free South Vietnamese,you have
no hope for any victory on the battlefields. For that reason,all the
sacrifices at this time will only be personal loss to you and your
family.

You can choose the path of surrender and will enjoy a peaceful life in
specially set-up camp,be treated decently with lodging,food,and
medicine… The Republic government of South Vietnam pledges to welcome
you according to our humanitarian policy.

Below are pictures of those who surrendered in camps in Pleiku. They
are listening …

The above picture is a group of surrendering North Vietnamese regulars
playing in the RVN’s camp.

… to the recorder playing back their own voices. Their happy and
pleasant attitude demonstrates a part of the fine and humane treatment
in the RVN’s camps.

You should no longer prolong your own suffering which only leads to a
meaningless death. Whenever there is an opportunity or even in the
middle of fighting, drop your weapon and give up. You will be treated
with decency. When peace returns,you will have the chance to come back
to your home village if you wish. 3501

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POW’S HEALTH ARE CARED FOR

When captured in South Vietnam, most communist soldiers suffer
sickness. Although caught as POW,they are very fortunate because their
health are well taken care of. You will be given the same treatment.

IF CAPTURED,YOU SHOULD FEEL AT EASE BECAUSE YOU WILL BE TREATED
HUMANELY AS THIS POW.

POW’s HEALTH ARE CARED FOR

When it is said that North Vietnamese troops will be mistreated and
killed if taken prisoner, the cadres have lied to you. Many communist
troops have been captured by the ARVN and Allied Force but they are
still alive. Furthermore,when the POWs fall ill,they are well cared
for.

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Translated by Nguyen Ba Chung,William Joiner Center,U Mass Boston
Leaflets courtesy of Jim Hackbarth,Alpha 1/7 Cav 69-71

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The leaflets below were made by the National Liberation Front and
meant to demoralize American troops. The first was found in Pinkville,
associated with the My Lai massacre. The second was found in Duc Pho.
Courtesy of Tony Swindell, 31st PID, 11th Light Infantry Brigade,
1968-69.

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Marc Levy

I was an infantry medic with Delta 1/7 First Cav in Vietnam and
Cambodia in 1970.

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