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[2] [3] Nguyễn Văn Lém was a Viet Cong (VC) member. [2] South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ stated that Lém was "a very high ranking" political official, but had not been a member of the Viet Cong military. [4] The event was witnessed and recorded by Võ Sửu, a cameraman for NBC, and Eddie Adams, an Associated Press ...
Saigon Execution. Saigon Execution [a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém [b] [c] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon.
Nguyen Ngoc was the son of a post officer worker south of Danang. Ngoc met and was deeply impressed by North Vietnamese political leader Lê Duẩn in 1951. [1] Ngoc joined the Viet Cong as a political officer writing poems and slogans in support of their cause. His siblings worked as teachers in schools in South Vietnam.
The son of Lieutenant Colonel Nguyễn Tuân, [1] [2] Huan Nguyen was born in 1958 or 1959 in Huế, South Vietnam.During the Tet Offensive of 1968, Nguyen's parents and six siblings were killed at their Saigon-area home by alleged Viet Cong guerrillas.
The Viet Cong [nb 1] (VC) was an epithet and umbrella term to refer to the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam. It was formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam , [ nb 2 ] and conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV).
Rafaelson Bezerra Fernandes (born 30 March 1997), known mononymously as Rafaelson and also as Nguyễn Xuân Son, is a Brazilian-Vietnamese professional footballer who plays as a striker for the V.League 1 club Thep Xanh Nam Dinh and the Vietnam national team.
The Huế massacre (Vietnamese: Thảm sát tại Huế Tết Mậu Thân, or Thảm sát Tết Mậu Thân ở Huế, lit. translation: "Tết Offensive massacre in Huế") was the summary executions and mass murder perpetrated by the Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during their capture, military occupation and later withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tet Offensive ...
It appears the viet cong executed by Loan was conducting armed hostilities dressed as a civilian (in fact most accounts claim he was an infiltrator). Therefore, at most, the viet cong would most likely have been an unlawful combatant who would not have qualified for protection under the Geneva convention. —Ryanaxp June 28, 2005 17:49 (UTC) BS.