SOUTH VIETNAM: YOUNG SOUTH VIETNAMESE OFFICER PUBLICLY EXECUTED.

Record ID: 230399

  • Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: YOUNG SOUTH VIETNAMESE OFFICER PUBLICLY EXECUTED.
  • Date: 10th April 1968
  • Summary: CROWDS; CHURCH; STATUE; FIRING SQUAD; WOMEN AND CHILDREN WATCH; EXECUTION; BODY INTO COFFIN. Initials TS/VS/PW/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 25th April 1968 13:00
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  • Location: SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Reuters ID: LVA3BV4PWWH6P6APGT7G52FO74VM
  • Story Text: A 24-YEAR-OLD SOUTH VIETNAMESE WARRANT-OFFICER WAS PUBLICLY EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD YESTERDAY (TUESDAY) AFTER BEING CONVICTED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES. HE DIED PROTESTING HIS INNOCENSE.

    WARRANT-OFFICER NGUYEN VAN PHUG WAS SHOT OUTSIDE THE CHI-HOA JAIL ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF SAIGON AFTER A LAST MINUTE APPEAL FOR CLEMENCY WAS REJECTED BY PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THIEU. HE WAS CONDEMNED BY A SPECIAL COURT FOR ALLEGED DESERTION AND FOR EMBEZZLING ABOUT GBP7,000 STERLING.

    CROWDS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN CLUSTERED AROUND THE EXECUTION GROUND AS THE YOUNG SOLDIER WAS LED OUT. HE DIED TIED TO A STAKE ERECTED NEAR A STATUE OF THE VIRGIN MARY OUTSIDE A CHURCH.

    (THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT IS CURRENTLY ENFORCING A CAMPAIGN AGAINST LAWLESSNESS AND CORRUPTION, AND MORE PUBLIC EXECUTIONS ARE EXPECTED TO FOLLOW. THIS WAS THE SECOND IN A FEW DAYS).
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