Page "Viet Cong" Paragraph 13

An assassination campaign, referred to as " extermination of traitors " or " armed propaganda " in communist literature, began in April 1957.

Tales of sensational murder and mayhem soon crowded the headlines.

Seventeen civilians were killed by machine gun fire at a bar in Châu Đốc in July and in September a district chief was killed with his entire family on a main highway in broad daylight.

In October 1957, a series of bombs exploded in Saigon and left 13 Americans wounded.