>South Vietnamese sources said that Lém commanded a Viet Cong insurgent team, which on that day had targeted South Vietnamese National Police officers, or in their stead, the police officers' families. Corroborating this, Lém was captured at the site of a mass grave that included the bodies of at least seven police family members.
>Around 4:30 A.M., Lém led a sabotage unit along with Viet Cong tanks to attack the Armor Camp in Go Vap. After communist troops took control of the base, Lém arrested Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Tuan with his family and forced him to show them how to drive tanks.[3] When Lieutenant Colonel Tuan refused to cooperate, Lém killed Tuan, his wife and six children and his 80-year-old mother by cutting their throats. There was only one survivor, a seriously injured 10-year-old boy.[3]
>Lém was captured near a mass grave with 34 civilian bodies. Lém admitted that he was proud to carry out his unit leader's order to kill these people.[4] Having personally witnessed the murder of one of his officers along with that man's wife and three small children in cold blood,[3] when Lém was captured and brought to him, General Loan summarily executed him using his sidearm, a .38 Special Smith & Wesson Model 38 "Bodyguard" revolver,[5] in front of AP photographer Eddie Adams[6] and NBC News television cameraman Vo Suu.
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the gook deserved it and the police chief got his reputation ruined over nothing
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DO IT AGAIN SIX-SHOOTER LOAN
>In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Loan fled South Vietnam. He moved to the United States, and opened a pizza restaurant in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Burke, Virginia at Rolling Valley Mall called "Les Trois Continents."[15][16] In 1991, he was forced into retirement when publicity about his past led to a sharp decline in business. Adams recalled that on his last visit to the pizza parlor, he had seen written on a toilet wall, "We know who you are, fucker".
pretty sad
if he would have moved to a southern state instead he probably would have been a hero t b h
It was deserved, so fuck right off with your looks.
>Virginia
>not a southern state
Also if he moved to the Deep South he'd probably be harassed a lot more. Those states collectively flipped their shit at the idea of Vietnamese immigration in the 70s which is why next to none of them moved there.
DO IT AGAIN SIX-SHOOTER LOAN
I wonder what the pizza was like at a pizza joint run by a former south Vietnamese general
>South Vietnamese sources
I would have bought a slice :c
Nixon did nothing wrong.
Lém did nothing wrong.
>the gook deserved it
The executed man is not Lem, he is just random VC soldier, unlucky to be caught near Loan location.
Loan executed many VC just for not wearing military uniform.
Much later South Vietnam government forged connection between massacre in armor camp and the execution of prisoner to whitewash Loan.
Loan was nasty man involved in drug trafficking.
>t. Noam Chomsky
I wonder how long it will be until people admit the North Vietnamese killed more innocent people than the S. Vietnamese and Americans could ever hope to.
Commies killing off their own population is a given. We should ourselves to higher standards and also not fight unwinnable wars.
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>I wonder how long until north vietnam uses napalm, agent orange and more bombs than the entire ww2 on people
There are quite a lot of SE Asians in the Southern US. And many of the are in the military's communities. If you read at all you can easy see that many of the government and military of South Vietnam came to the US.
Regardless of whether the condemned committed capital crimes, the sight of a goddamn general personally carrying out an execution in the middle of a city street in broad daylight sent a strong message that the war was becoming even more of a clusterfuck and going out of control. If it had been a traditional military execution via the gallows or firing squad after a tribunal nobody would've given a fuck.
The goddamn commie traitor deserved it
fuck commies they are a plague on the homeland
>Loan executed many VC just for not wearing military uniform.
As he was supposed to have done.
Noam pls.
This. Engaging soldiers while not wearing a uniform is totally illegal and removes your POW status, thus you can be executed at will. The reasons for this are simple: if you do discourage uniforms, then the other side can't tell who's a combatant and who isn't, which just results in a mess.
Its even worse than that because you don't even need a proper uniform but at least a recognizable insignia (such as a colored arm band) and carry weapon openly to be considered a lawful combatant. There's literally no excuse for combatants behind enemy lines wearing civilian clothing.
And the source cited is the author's ass
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>This. Engaging soldiers while not wearing a uniform is totally illegal and removes your POW status, thus you can be executed at will.
There are special rules in Geneva conventions for civil conflicts. Because enemy soldiers in those conflicts are usually treated as rebels and terrorists, not real soldiers. Even combatants wearing uniforms don't get POW status.
>Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of
>armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat
>by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all
>circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction
>founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any
>other similar criteria.
>To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time
>and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
>d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without
>previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording
>all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.
So according to this the execution was illegal.
It's different when foreigners come and burn down villages while claiming to help.