They were at war. That guy being shot was murderous VC.
Communism isn't another ideology, just like Democracy or Monarchy.
It is a vile, evil form of totalitarianism that mandates their dedicated foot soldiers (like the man being shot in the famous photo, Nguyễn Văn Lém (Captain Bay Lop) should carry out specific and targeted campaigns of terror against innocents. If there were an animal we should liken communists to, and model our treatment of them after, it would be rats. The world won't, of course, which is why Communism still thrives.
Dedicated Communists should be treated in the same fashion as this man in the photo. Communism should be made as unfashionable as Piracy was in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Although pirates do live on and ply their trade, they are often dispatched without fuss wherever they are met on the high seas. As they should be.
Communists should be treated the same way.
The reason the VC was summarily executed was he had just killed some people. Geneva Convention allows for such executions because he was dressed in civilian clothes and was therefore deemed a ‘spy’, who can be dispatched immediately.............
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hPm4eiiD08