Posted on 03/12/2023 8:51:11 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1960, the former French colony of Vietnam made its last use of that most characteristically Gallic killing-machine: the guillotine.
Communist cadre Hoang Le Kha of the Vietnam People’s Army — the insurgent force also known at different times, in different manifestations, and through different eyes as the Viet Minh, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Vietcong* — earned the unpleasant distinction. According to a disappointingly truncated article (.pdf) from the Texas Tech University Vietnam Archive, the beheading took place notwithstanding an appeal pending before the International Control Commission, the multinational body charged with overseeing the supposedly temporary partition of Vietnam.
So, six years after Dien Bien Phu, what was independent Vietnam using this hated machine for?
Why, the same thing the French used it for: Terror.
The demonstrative device was redeployed in 1959 by Ngo Dinh Diem — a man whose obliviousness to blowback would soon land him in these pages — for exacting frightful, visible justice on subversive types....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Second of all, don't make a spectacle of it unless the vast majority of the population are stinking mad at the Leftists and want to see them dead and there is a real danger of too many in population lynching people, some of whom are innocent, they see as the enemy.
“Hello, International Control Commission, Execution Delay Appeals Department, please hold...”
Don’t forget the traitor John McCain.
Maybe that was the reason the CIA had Diem assassinated, but I doubt it.
Lesson is not enough lost their heads.
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