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do you have a source that’s written aka not a podcast? googling the mayor burning claim just brings me to your comment even just a transcript of the episode yo
by whimsicalism 2y ago
do you have a source that’s written aka not a podcast? googling the mayor burning claim just brings me to your comment
even just a transcript of the episode you’re discussing. generally i find if someone responds with ire rather than a link, the event usually did not happen as they remembered it
- sillywalk 2y agoWikipedia has an article, with links to sources. I think the main source is Douglas Pike's The Vietcong Strategy of Terror[0]. Another Vietnam Expert, Bernard Fall, documents some of it in Vietnam Witness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong_and_People%27s_Army_of_Vietnam_use_of_terror_in_the_Vietnam_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong_and_People%27s_Army_... [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230405095258/https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/images.php?img=/images/231/2311404008a.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20230405095258/https://vva.vietn...
- whimsicalism 2y agothere is no mention of this 'mayor burning alive' story in either of these sources. nor do i really trust this book, written during the vietnam war, while the US propaganda efforts were mounting up.