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Show 205 Near Can Tho in the Mekong Delta, terrorists struck at a village which was the site of a rice mill serving the whole district. They Spared the mill but lashed the village head man to a flagpole and executed him before the eyes of the huddled villagers. Then there is the more indiscriminate type of assas- sination. 25, To cite but one of countless examples, on June 1965, a Viet Cong mine exploded at the edge of a play- ground on the shores of the Saigon River. was a huge floating restaurant, the My Canh. through the My Canh along with shrapnel, scrambled blindly toward the exit, neck at the gangplank. Just off Shore Panic ripped and customers jamming into a bottle- At that point a Viet Cong terrorist peddled his bicycle to the scene, leaned it against a Strapped to the bicycle was a nearby tree, and ran0 second mind, which exploded, cutting through the crowd on the gangplank°24 Result: Fortymtwo persons killed, eightynone injured -- including women and children. There is little, if any, doubt then that one of the Viet Congvs major objectives in using terrorism is to generate fear among great numbers of people. But there are other, more subtle and sophisticated objectives, too, among them: 23United Press International diSpatch by Phil Newsom, UPI Foreign News Analyst, dated April 7, 1966. 24Vietcong: nam, OE. Cit., pp. Atrocities and Sabotage in South Viet- 22-24. |
