U.S. ARMY TREATMENT OF NORTH VIETNAMESE & VIET CONG ENEMY PRISONERS OF WAR 54294

This 1973 U.S. Army color film MF20-5841 describes itself as providing a historical documentary of the internment, release, and repatriation of enemy prisoners of war, as per the Geneva Convention. January 1973. A bird’s eye view is given of South Vietnam (1:08-1:35). Soldiers capture North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, blindfold, transport, and identify them (1:36-2:45). The prisoners were moved to a brigade collecting point for screening. Shown is the 4th Infantry Division Collecting Point. An overhead view shows the detainee tents and POWs arriving via helicopter (2:46-3:40). POWs sit under guard behind barbed wire fence. They are separated by signs: Detainee, Innocent Civilian, Officer, Female (3:41-3:57). Forms are filled out in an military office (3:58-4:29). Red Cross officials visit detainees (4:30-5:02). The central POW camp was on Phu Quoc, as seen from a guardhouse 5:03-5:15). Military police advise officers. The ARVN Military Police (Quan Canh) entrance is shown (5:16-6:10). There are large gardens. Water is drawn up from a well and carried between prisoners working the fields. Vocations were taught (6:11-7:48). A gong is sounded to gather into predefined groups. “Hard core” POWs were segregated from the rest (7:49-8:50). Many used the camp to learn skills such as manufacturing artificial legs, spray painting, wood construction, cabinetry, and sewing on Tung Yuen treadle machines (8:51-10:12). Doctors treat wounded POWs, and acupuncture was approved for use (10:13-11:19). Women and children wearing Asian conical rice hats sit outside the barbed wire fence, and leave parcels and mail for prisoners (11:25-12:15). Traditional Vietnamese holidays were celebrated, as shown by a dragon dance. Buddhist and Christian church services were provided (12:16-13:05). The camera pans the camp from a distance (13:06-13:58). The Paris agreement of January 1973 requires all prisoners to be released within 60 days. U.S. Air Force C-130s arrive to transport them. Some Viet Cong soldiers elected to be released into South Vietnamese society via truck transport (13:59-15:00). Complete personnel records were sent with each POW (15:01-15:39). On the day of release, some Viet Cong refused to move. Saigon sent members of the Joint Military Commission to speak with them. This delay held up the release of 27 American POWs and is resolved. The wounded receive ambulance rides or a military truck ride to the air field (15:40-18:55). The women are loaded into the transport plane (18:56-20:21). The able-bodied men ride in military trucks, shown leaving Khu Giam 3, and taken to the runway (20:22-21:30). The ICSS observed the aircraft loading process (21:31-22:40). Views inside the cockpit are shown (22:45-23:24). After landing, the people are moved by truck transport past wrecked villages. They strip their clothes off in defiance at the exchange site and board motorboats in their boxers to Duan Khan Thang Loi Tro Ve, where the North Vietnamese provide a new uniform. The ritual was repeated at other sites (23:25-27:14). POWs who changed their minds caused violence and turmoil between the military forces (27:15-32:24). The last group hold signs refusing to be returned and are transported for release in South Vietnam (32:25-34:30).
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[@nathanbusch2177]

We visited the former POW prison at Phu Quoc Island, South of Saigon. The South used that place to imprison NVA and VC soldiers. The story that place tells (from the side of the current same communist govt as those imprisoned there of course) is quite a bit different than this video. Torture using pegs to pierce the skull, being put inside Tiger cages, living in feces, malnutrition, and other stuff like that.... Some of them managed to tunnel out of the place and escape (allegedly). I am sure the truth probably lies between the two stories and I am also sure the North wasn't nice to those they captured; my Vietnamese wife's grandfather was shot and killed for siding with the Americans. All round nasty business.

[@rider660r]

In the 2nd sentence of your comment you already pointed out the complete difference between the video and the island..the South Vietnamese had reigns on the NVA/VC POW's.......Was it much different than what Americans or others got from the NVA? Being a prisoner of the VC,Pathet Lao,or Khmer Rouge was much worse than being one of the NVA in North Vietnam.The NVA and VC would also murder a lot of civilians just because they helped the US and/or wouldn't help them even if they weren't helping the US. What do you think a SVN soldier would get if captured by either the NVA or VC..........

[@huanluyenvietcongboo4172]

Bull shit that from the french 😂😂😂 stop your nonsense thing việt cộng con

[@thuankhong]

Những kẻ làm tay sai cho ngoại bang đáng bị giết hết đi Bây giờ vẫn vậy ,để VN tồn tại.

[@u.s.militia7682]

Literally every POW camp puts on the spit & shine when the Red Cross drops in. 😂

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Not true.

[@bossbonita1235]

Just like OSHA making an unannounced visit to a medical/dental office, etc

[@KimChung1970Saigon]

Yes , We the South Vietnamese people were very fortunate to have such men & women brave fight for us . & they keep us safe for long time . We will never forget this big sacrifice to keep peace . Many young Vietnamese also died at the battlefield for their country . & my younger brother one of those thousand men shoots by VC & died at 22 years of age . If a communist treating " right & respected " not took control food , corrupts daily to their own citizen . It will never have " Boat People " in 1977 to 1979 happen . * If a communist treating people normal way , It will be no one scared & escaped from them. As always a Communist regime policies are threatening , slander their own people with " you against government " word " terrorism " so could arrested & imprisoned them . Citizens live in fear, afraid to resist, only obeyed the party's orders .

[@thuankhong]

Shameless parasites always dream of snuggling up in the crotch of Americans to parasitize

[@ninone111]

Thankyou for the great video, from a Vietnamese's little son😘

[@kanukster]

Wow...a totally different side of the war that I had not seen or expected. Great video.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

All lies! Do not believe VC.Their displays are fake .Propaganda but good to extort money from innocent curious American tourists.Those things never existed in SVN during the war.

[@Jack-rs3ok]

Listening to the background music you feel like the group of musicians having no other options is playing with rusted instruments they had kept underground for months.

[@bman3800bman3800]

for real bro, the flute in the beginning.

[@habbershum9556]

Do you really think they are going to show you what’s really going on.

[@noisystone828]

no 🤣 i dont think so

[@Bright188]

Probably not ☹️

[@bossbonita1235]

Right? My thoughts exactly!

[@wintersies1389]

Yeah its really happened

[@aobinhminh5029]

Im vietnamese kiddo search and read something about nguyen ngoc lan

[@marklindquist2206]

If I had the funds I would definitely want to vist,, have heard nothing but good things from the vets who toured the country within the past 10 years or so,,,

[@HaNguyen-if7sy]

Mọi thứ lên video thật nhẹ nhàng:(

[@haycuoi517]

Viet Nam is a beautiful and peaceful country. We always welcome you to visit and travel or work in our country. Viet Nam is ready to friend with all the countries in the world. The war went by for a long time; it is time for us to heal the damages after the war andmake Viet Nam become a beautiful and wealthy land. We hope for a beautiful future with your help.

[@calhun4481]

No it's not, still a communist country. Citizen has no freedom, government take lands from people, etc. Ho Chi Minh is fake, has no real name birth date, etc. He's a creation of Mao and Stalin. He caused the country into two per Mao and millions of death between the two sides.

[@4321grp]

Hay Cười, I agree, I'm a former U.S.Army veteran in VN. Sometimes our worst enemies can become our best friends afterward. Good luck to Viet Nam, It is a beautiful country.

[@amadeosilva6085]

Vietnam is indeed a beautiful country and more importantly … so are you … the awesome people of Vietnam our brothers and sisters Pagosa Colorado 🇺🇸 USA

[@phlilipsdo9771]

@@4321grp Do not believe VC.

[@michaeldineenSG2018]

Absolutely. I had a chance about 5 months ago to visit Hanoi and be in a documentary in what is a truly amazing story. I had been in contact with a bunch of former PAVN soldiers.

[@patricksputnick5094]

Interesting footage ! I also wonder if there is available footage of the Vietnamese DMZ somewhere ?

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Always remember there is not any truth in the communist piecies of propaganda.

[@andre0baskin]

It would seem to me that the "New Life" program would be an excellent way to get NV agents embedded into the south.

[@johngibson2884]

Correct ...much like Chu Hoi actually strengthened resistance , ironically

[@hoanghungminh8984]

@@johngibson2884 bạn cũng nghiên cứu lịch sử Trung Quốc nhỉ

[@phlilipsdo9771]

@@johngibson2884 thousands Vc surrendered thru the chieu Hội program.They come to learn trades or joins the fight against Vc .

[@friscostreetstories5403]

Very interesting. I love these Army films. They dont show how the NVA were recirculated back into combat units to fight another day. BY 73 all combat units of the US have left , except the airforce.

[@michaelbeams9553]

True , the open arms program (Chu Hoi) often resulted in those open arms later holding an AK-47.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

@@michaelbeams9553 -- CORRECT. | Because only racist foreigners could and would believe their own lies about the existence of two countries named Viet Nam; TWO VIETNAMESE PEOPLES, the "southern Viets" and the "northern Viets", all based upon the RACIST and RELIGIOUS lies that are the COLONIALIST mentality, i.e. Confederate racism transposed upon an Asian country.

[@PhuongTran-pi5pz]

but vietnam have tree man

[@marianotorrespico2975]

@@PhuongTran-pi5pz -- WELL, THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE BETRAYED VIET NAM. | Yeah . . . well . . . the Communists won that war for their country. Given that the war ended long ago, it is time to accept your loss and move on into adult life.

[@lance8080]

@Redzed #2 who gives a F**k !!!!

[@johnpotts7846]

The VC mutilated a couple of our guys. They were not treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention when we caught them. Indeed, you could hear them raise a fuss when they got a few volts.

[@osiresmaiamaia9048]

Eu admiro o povo vietnamita, gente trabalhadora que ama seu país..numa guerra ninguém sai ganhando, todos perdem é muita dor e sofrimento para seu povo.. Graças a Deus, nós brasileiros, desejamos Paz a todo ser humano...Espero um dia conhecer esse lindo país..

[@sonduong5802]

The VC prisoners of war were very well treated

[@EE-gt1nm]

Oh really, The paper that is found for the death of my uncle citer that they have tortured him to death and brought him to tổng Y viện cộng hòa. That paper is found in Tổng Nha Cảnh Sát office

[@EE-gt1nm]

So stfu you South vietnamese, imagine losing and fleed by helicopters

[@hoanghungminh8984]

Cảm ơn ông bạn đã có nhận xét, còn để khẳng định là đúng thì tôi mời bạn đi 1 chuyến đến thăm di tích nhà tù ở Côn Đảo nhé, nếu cần bạn có thể tìm gặp cựu chúa ngục nhà tù hiện vẫn đang sinh sống và làm ăn cùng con cháu của mình ở đấy . Chúc bạn vui vẻ với chuyến du lịch tới Côn Đảo vn !

[@phlilipsdo9771]

@@hoanghungminh8984 dóc tổ.Mây cái chuồng nay kia đều là bịp du khách và tuyên truyền.Giám đốc trại giam và mấy chục nhân viên đều bị thủ tiêu.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

@@EE-gt1nm láo khoét.TổngY Viện Cộng Hoà là của quân đội,không có nhận tù VC .

[@thanhattran4215]

No war anymore, Luckily I was born in peace. We are former enemies but now good friends indeed. Can't believe 2 countries that fought for 21 years now signed a strategic partnership treaty in 2013. I pray to the Vietcong who fought for our freedom; now it's time to cooperate during peacetime. No enemy is eternal.

[@All_you_need_is_love2018]

I’m glad our two countries are now friends 🇺🇸🇻🇳 🕊

[@Renard786]

Never trust a yank

[@romeoiipunzalan1079]

Because they need your country against china...

[@BigDonKedick]

The war was a tragedy and should never be repeated!!! I love the Vietnamese people, their kindness, their love, and their ability to forgive. I'm glad that you were born In peace and that our two countries are on good terms. Stay blessed, friend!

[@michaeldineenSG2018]

I am an American 56 years old and was supposed to go to Hanoi to do a documentary a while ago. I was invited by Vietnam television. I couldn't go at the time but wanted to in the future. I was hacked on Facebook and lost the contacts. How can I get in touch with them.

[@hondalong5379]

Trời nhìn mũ cối dép râu là thấy lạnh cả người là thấy một dân tộc không tương lai.

[@sonduong5802]

Nhìn thấy hãi

[@phule1881]

Kkk sợ đến mức tuột quần bỏ chạy đến tận cali cạo móng luôn mà 🤣🤣🤣

[@PhuongTran-pi5pz]

vậy ông nghĩ tại sao cái dép râu đó thành đồ thời trang bán rất đắt của hảng thời trang nổi tiếng rồi còn mũ cối lại là thứ đuợc mọi nguời săn đón để mua vậy tại sao ta lại tự làm ra tên lửa đạn đạo để đi thi với Mỹ nga ấn rồi tự sản xuất vũ khí đời mới nhu STV mà còn là nuớc có sản luợng xuất khẩu gạo lớn thứ 2 thế giới chỉ sau ấn độ mà lại còn có GDP trên 200 tỷ đô sếp hạn lính đặc công còn top 10 thế giới dùng ak mà bắn nát máy bay địch nguời nhái đặt bom đánh chìm tàu sân bay chìm xuống sông sài Gòn 10m trong lịch sử hãy tự suy nghĩ đi

[@meaningdo7063]

Mấy con gâu gâu đu càng mẽo về cắn lại tổ tiên chúng nó, thật kinh tởm cho chúng mày. Tốt nhất bọn mày nên quên nguồn gốc và đổi tên của mình đi

[@kimkhoitruong5991]

thằng 3 que

[@pyroarchy]

that one guy the crowd beat on...i feel like he signed his death warrant by refusing to go and then going at the end :-(

[@bcraigphelps2649]

I imagine that all of the prisoners that opted to stay in South Vietnam were among the 500,000 that were murdered by the North Vietnamese as they violated the Paris Peace Accords by invading the south.

[@borninvincible]

Spoken like a true uneducated American

[@Loppoz56]

????

[@tuandaihiep71]

6. Hội nghị chứng nhận rằng mục đích căn bản của Hiệp định về Việt Nam là giải quyết các vấn đề quân sự để đình chỉ chiến sự, và giới tuyến quân sự chỉ có tính chất tạm thời, hoàn toàn không thể coi là một ranh giới về chính trị hay về lãnh thổ. Hội nghị tin tưởng rằng việc thi hành những điều khoản định trong bản tuyên bố này và trong những Hiệp định đình chỉ chiến sự tạo ra cơ sở cần thiết để giải quyết vấn đề chính trị ở Việt Nam trong một thời gian ngắn. 7. Hội nghị tuyên bố rằng đối với Việt Nam, việc giải quyết các vấn đề chính trị, thực hiện lên cơ sở tôn trọng nguyên tắc độc lập thống nhất và toàn vẹn lãnh thổ, phải làm cho nhân dân Việt Nam được hưởng những tự do căn bản, bảo đảm bởi những tổ chức dân chủ thành lập sau tổng tuyển cử tự do và bỏ phiếu kín. Để cho việc lập lại hòa bình tiến triển đến mức cần thiết, và để thực hiện tất cả những điều kiện cần thiết cho nhân dân Việt Nam có thể tự do bày tỏ ý muốn, cuộc tổng tuyển cử sẽ tổ chức vào tháng 7-1956, dưới sự kiểm soát của một Ban Quốc tế gồm đại biểu những nước có chân trong Ban Giám sát và kiểm soát quốc tế đã nói trong Hiệp định đình chỉ chiến sự. Kể từ ngày 20 tháng 7 năm 1955, những nhà đương cục có thẩm quyền trong hai vùng sẽ có những cuộc gặp gỡ để thương lượng về vấn đề đó Đọc hiểu đi nhé

[@phuctrinh2589]

NVnmese regime are brutal killers

[@tuananhphung577]

Lol, did the Americans participate and signed at the Paris Peace Accords?? Look at yourself before judging us, your US government are not that good in this war, tho

[@Michael_Veritas]

A person caught conducting military out of uniform is not entitled to Geneva Covenant. An unlawful combatant, illegal combatant or unprivileged combatant/belligerent is a person who directly engages in armed conflict in violation of the laws of war and therefore is claimed not to be protected by the Geneva Conventions.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Communists do not care about the Geneva Convention .Every knows how Hanoi treated Mac Cain.

[@tomk3732]

The movie does not follow what SV did to these transferred at least at first, which is to torture and kill. NV tortured and threaten to kill US POWs - under that pressure US was forced to get SV to stop killing / torturing people. This resulted in much better conditions for US troops.

[@d.cypher2920]

Indeed. *The Phoenix Program*

[@marianotorrespico2975]

@@d.cypher2920 -- CORRECT. | Well, the defenders of the war forgot about the Phoenix Program, the Murican gestapo policy of "eliminating the [human] infrastructure" that supported the Communists from the northern part of Viet Nam.

[@lichin11]

Thank you for pointing this out.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

@@lichin11 99%of NVN accusations are not true In SVN POW camps were visited by free world media,notably the RED CROSS.VC never let them see theirs.Have you read the memoir of Senator MAC KCAIN? After war ,all military officers of SVN,ALL, locked up without a sentence.A lot of them were tortured,killed.Imaginable how they treated SVN people.Barbaric ..In VN now, everyone can be a culprit of crime according to police accusations…They can provide any proof of your imaginable crime…for example,military MD were imprisoned Their crime:save SVN soldiers so they can fight against NVA…It’s new too you,I am sure.

[@lichin11]

@@phlilipsdo9771 I'm 57, none of this is new to me. Yes, I have read about Senator McCain (not MAC KCAIN) and the torture that he endured as a POW. Vietnamese POW camps were horrible. That's obvious. My only point was Americans also, understandably, did some things against the Vietnamese that were not honorable. I'm a proud military veteran lucky enough not to have served during wartime. I support US troops but won't blindly look away from less than honorable actions on their part.

[@lyubomirfilipov2801]

If some one napalm my family ? What you do?

[@ianjohngonzales4066]

Ill volunteer to be a commando that will raid an airbase and do as much damage as possible including getting rid of many airmen and pilots to the best of my ability.

[@markwebster5749]

Give them hell back 👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@psilvakimo]

I'm sure the families of 73,000 French killed in allied bombing raids felt the same in WW2. Find out what Lord Alanbrooke said about that.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Why don’t you blame NVN aggression?why don’t you accuse Vc killing boat people?torturing American POW?

[@lyubomirfilipov2801]

@@phlilipsdo9771 wash your hair,and thing about this.

[@americanoutdoorsman_1133]

The North Vietnamese and VC didn’t abide by the Geneva Conventions rules that’s what pissed me off we had to play by the rules but they didn’t

[@LordDreaamzy]

Thats probably because the US is a massive supernation and the VC were untrained rice farmers lmao ??

[@idontlikehitler882]

@@LordDreaamzy and that means they can torture our men?

[@THX-bz8bi]

@@LordDreaamzy well they (the VC and NVA) got funding from the Soivets and Chinese while comminting terrible war crimes like massarces, ethnic cleansing, terrorism assassinations and more.

[@LordDreaamzy]

@@idontlikehitler882 Shouldn't have invaded their land then lmao

[@pajodato5339]

Nowadays US has POW outside geneva convention ruling on Guantanamo. They avoid the convention too. If a US personnel is harmed, US cannot say anything about that. Convention is a convention for a reason.

[@patrickhennegan8770]

RIP Thomas James Hennegan 🇱🇷💜

[@xinsang1921]

Các bạn có thể ra Côn Đảo nhìn xem . Ở ngoài đó có cái nhà tù và cái nghĩa trang . Nó nói nên tất cả .

[@jaysilverheals4445]

also they would tie them across the front of tanks and run them through the bushes and trees. another one told to me is they would take a few up in a helicopter to get info. They would throw one out and the others told everything.that is a fact

[@jonhenson5450]

You ever do QnA inside a helicopter in a foreign language? Another lie.

[@khangnguyen1759]

@@jonhenson5450 IDK, witht the threat of throwing someone out of a helicopter, it could work.

[@jonhenson5450]

@@khangnguyen1759 may I ask which province you are in, and your age?

[@khangnguyen1759]

Why?

[@jonhenson5450]

@@khangnguyen1759 only curious. Very interested in any background knowledge. Anyway, the idea of getting detailed answers inside a helicopter isn't realistic.

[@Geojr815]

People need to understand that atrocities were committed by BOTH SIDES. But the Vietnamese were much much more inhumane and brutal

[@johnharrison6745]

Exactly.

[@Phutungraxe128]

@@johnharrison6745 người mỹ xâm lược vn đào tạo người việt giết người việt quân đội mỹ ghê tởm nhất trên thế giới này

[@johnharrison6745]

​@@Phutungraxe128 The Americans fought the most despicable people in the world, the communists of the far east; and, they trained Vietnamese people to do the same. The North Vietnamese Army and their Chinese and Soviet "helpers"/controllers were just ruthless, sadistic, little monsters; they're beneath contempt. Người Mỹ đã chiến đấu với những kẻ hèn hạ nhất trên thế giới, những người cộng sản ở viễn đông; và, họ đã huấn luyện người Việt Nam làm như vậy. Quân đội Bắc Việt và những người "trợ giúp" / kiểm soát Trung Quốc và Liên Xô của họ chỉ là những con quái vật nhỏ tàn nhẫn, tàn bạo; họ đang khinh thường.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Look at the Vc POW released in the presence of the international committee.They all fed up nicely.After their return Hanoi kept their mouth shut because in their propaganda ,in 20 years of war they won every battle ,no Vc defected or surrendered …Try to believe them those professional liers .,please .

[@ahmedakhan1]

Really? Were they responsible for the deaths of over three million Vietnamese? Did they use chemicals like Agent Orange and Napalm? Were they responsible for the torture and deaths of six hundred women and children in My Lai in 1968? Did the drop twice as many bombs in Indochina as were dropped in all theaters during the Second World War? Read Nick Turse's book, Kill Anything That Moves, then you will know how "humane" the Americans were! Today a united Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. A beautiful country with beautiful people. Few people have sacrificed as much as the Vietnamese have for their freedoms!

[@ahmads5722]

Indonesian delegations are watching seriously.

[@giuseppedanieli7878]

May Lai....

[@mattwii6291]

They would torture the living hell out of the prisoners. This looks like a nice place to stay. They basically lied.

[@mickez3993]

Nah the lucky ones made it to camp as we see here for propaganda purposes in fact this aint no Gitmo bay facility or operation golden pheonix holding area way too many camera's and reporters hanging around, I guess many didn't even make it out of the field for what they did to their GI's "peoples" fighting and enemy with one arm tied behind their back would of accounted for a lot of murders i guess, The booby traps they employed were not part of the geneva convention and them ducking over the border for safety all the time would of angered the hell out of the combatants fighting them.

[@ianjohngonzales4066]

This is all lies.

[@linhnguyen-li6us]

My dad worked with the CIA during Viet Nam war. The prisoners were treated better than anyone else and got release and came back and shot south Vietnamese soldiers again. That is something bs about the war I heard directly from him. He was the one who released them and fed them American best food.

[@Loppoz56]

@@linhnguyen-li6us yeah north vietnamese soldier were actually treated like shit during the vietnam war so this is just a propaganda

[@sonduong5802]

In 1975 the VC prisoners looked healthy when they were released . There were no signs of being maltreated

[@barryburnfield1908]

Our American POW should have been treated so good.

[@hoanghungminh8984]

Để tìm hiểu mời bạn cứ tìm gặp ông cựu đại sứ Mỹ ở Việt Nam ông ấy đã từng là tù binh ở Việt Nam đấy ,cũng chính ông ấy đã làm cầu nối Hòa giải để vn và Mỹ gần lại với nhau.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Read Mac Cain’s memories.

[@testla3383]

is the a reason they decided to play Vietnamese funeral music in the background?

[@BPD1586]

Sets the atmosphere...

[@dixieboy5689]

>> 21:46 Jack Lemmon.

[@dwightherrington7793]

Should have treated the vc like they treated their captures

[@joepham1500]

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE OF NAM'S .......... NO MORE GI JANES - NO MORE VC AND NO MORE BUM BUM BUM - BANG BANG BANG FOR GOOD ........... HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022 - THE YEAR OF TIGER ..................

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Those who talk for democracy,freedom are still jailed,their families persecuted..Enjoy your peace under Vc rule.

[@tvk9030]

the worst part of the republic of vietnam was to drop VC soldiers into the southwest and maybe they supported VC soldiers of the southern liberation front

[@michaelkalinsky8938]

Narrated by Hal Holbrook

[@patricklaurojr7427]

well this wasn't no Hanoi hilton

[@thomasfx3190]

If we were such assholes, why did we bother with a POW camp at all? They probably never lived so good.

[@cenobitecyborgkratch9669]

I like the look of the helmet of the vc or Northern Vietnam soldiers.

[@4321grp]

cenobitecyborg kratch, In WWll the British had similar helmets.

[@billkaldem5099]

Wonder how many got pushed out of choppers?

[@4321grp]

Bill Kaldem, None.

[@wintersies1389]

VC are the henchman of soviet

[@BPD1586]

Read and heard most weren't even communist. Just tired of having western imperialist come in and try and run their country.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

And Comchins

[@neutralfm9620]

Isolated incidents of following the Geneva convention more like

[@mattwii6291]

0:20 Well what that said was a lie. :/

[@timbungarner3842]

I guess this is the way it went, I have trouble believing military propaganda film,

[@user-ip1tz4hv4s]

❤ hoàng sa trường sa là của việt nam ❤❤❤

[@Smooth-ub8xb]

That's disgusting!!!!!! While our boys were getting tortured and starved to death. Living in deplorable conditions!!!! F that!!!!!

[@nguyenho5859]

Con Dao and Phu Quoc prisons You guys don’t need to care about these prisons. Just need to listen to what Nixon president and other contemporary honorable politicians said.

[@phuctrinh2589]

về mà xem cái Hanoi Hilton hỏa lò nhé. Tra tấn kinh khủng mà chụp ảnh chăm sóc như đúng rồi. Lũ CS dối trá bệnh hoạn

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Everything Vc tell about con son and Phú Quic is lies .Lies are Vc way of life.

[@wilsontoddd5253]

In. War. Three. Are. No. Rules. Or. Laws.

[@wilsontoddd5253]

Only. Give. Your. Rank. And. Number. Only.

[@lawrenceagnew3972]

Don't make assumptions

[@philiprobinson1264]

Whatever they may have done would not have been close to what the Viet Cong did to our young men.

[@texasaggie8449]

Why did we take prisoners

[@dwightherrington7793]

Well lets think back how the vc treated american soldiers

[@TriNguyen-zf3pp]

Both sides did not comply with the Geneva convention.

[@Condor512]

SAT CONG!

[@mikaelcanada1833]

Yep anytime.

[@sonduong5802]

...and anywhere

[@matthewmiles15]

LMFAO clearly you guys failed miserably and now are living in the shadow of the past and in the realm of false hope.

[@jasonharper2601]

v.c sure were not good to pows

[@Zwei4815]

American veterans don't want to talk about how NVA POWs were treated.

[@1223steffen]

What’s good for the goose. If the Nva can torture we can too

[@Zwei4815]

@@1223steffen Americans are supposed to be better than their enemies.

[@1223steffen]

Zwei4815 we are

[@Zwei4815]

@@1223steffen Not if you tortured NVA POWs.

[@1223steffen]

@@Zwei4815 we should do it if they did it. Whats good for the goose

[@sharonrigs7999]

I feel sorry for the guys who didn't care about politics and just wanted to work their land in peace. The VC/NVA was notorious for killing and terrorizing those who refused to join or assist them...like many insurgent groups.

[@Medietos]

Were not the VC quite heterogenous though, - I saw a video of VC women fighters of the tunnels, hospital workers etc, who were peaceful, loving, humane and pious/spiritual, not at all like the descriptions one can get of "them".

[@dunganh2259]

You may not know that most of the VC/NVA were those who fought against the French from 1945 to 1954, then they fought against the US.

[@sharonrigs7999]

@@dunganh2259 Against the Japanese too

[@Loppoz56]

Is hard to live in peace when a foreign force is litterally in your land lmao

[@sonduong5802]

The South Vietnamese people knew very well how brutal the VC were

[@walt2840]

What about Green Beret "flying lessons"?

[@hsiungsan8063]

14:30 I wonder what happened to the 11,000 POWs who decided not to return North Vietnam and who weren’t with the VC, after South Vietnam fell to the North.

[@tanletran7270]

They were vanished or captured and executed by the NVA . Only the elite few were evacuated by the American in the last days of the war

[@hsiungsan8063]

We’re talking about former North Vietnamese POWs. I doubt any would have been evacuated by the Americans because they wouldn’t have been in the South Vietnamese government and military.

[@tanletran7270]

@@hsiungsan8063 these 11,000 former NVA & NLF soldiers defect to the South under the Chieu Hoi Program .Some had been captured by the NVA when they captured Saigon in 1975 . Some vanished into thin air either changed their identities then tried to escape Vietnam in the post war years . Some settled in the Western countries but many still lived in Vietnam under new identities

[@4321grp]

Many were probably "Boat People" who escaped Vietnam and eventually immigrated to western countries.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

All those captured were either killed or deported to forced labor camps until death . They even deny their POWs.Do anybody know about them in vc’s accounts’

[@wilsontoddd5253]

Put. Them. In. Force. Work. Camps.

[@alfonsogarcia8601]

They're forgetting about what happened in pinkville.

[@BPD1586]

They literally got away with murder...and I mean literally.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Please ,explain.

[@HungPhan-mo1dq]

The South lost the war but they acted more civilized and human when treating VC POW . History has shown the North treated the POW badly and inhuman . They've imprisoned hundred thousand South Vietnamese Military Men after the war ended from few years to 18 years . The condition was terrible and harsh . They were forced to do hard labor works and lived with hungry al the time. The good guys always abide the international laws and rules. Bad guys don't !Too bad they won the war.

[@SangNguyen-gg1dm]

Thế nhà tù đảo Quốc VN bị hành hạ dã man thì sao

[@LongTran-eg5mb]

@@SangNguyen-gg1dm Tù Phú Quốc đây nè you ....Chỉ có loài cộng sản Hồ chí minh vô tính dối trá tham nhũng tàn bạo cuóp nhà cướp đất của dân mới chính là những kẻ tàn ác với nhân dân vn chúng tôi thôi nhá kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5ipaGiHoZeAeac

[@SangNguyen-gg1dm]

@@LongTran-eg5mb chỉ có dòng họ thằng tay sai ngụy VNCH nó bán nước cho mỹ thả B52+ chất độc da cam trên nước vn giết hại dân lành thế mới có tiền ăn sung mặc sướng .Tội ác bán nước làm tay sai để dân VN làm nô lệ cho quân xâm lược

[@SangNguyen-gg1dm]

@UCnBIn1QzZHQayqvPqnbJiOQ chính Mỹ trả tiền thuê mấy thằng ngụy VNCH ám sát Ngô Đình Diệm ,Nhu chúng mày còn tàn sát lẫn nhau thì nói ai

[@SangNguyen-gg1dm]

@UCnBIn1QzZHQayqvPqnbJiOQ thằng ngụy VNCH nhận tiền thuê ám sát Ngô đình Diệm, chúng mày tàn sát lẫn nhau thì nói ai

[@michaelbeams9553]

The spirit of the law and the letter of the law are often widely divergent . Standards of treatment and humanity varied in both the M.A.C.V. and A.R.V.N. Regardless of the rule and regs., it was the man immediately over you who controlled your fate. This has been true in every war.

[@marianotorrespico2975]

michael beams -- TOO LITTLE BULLSHIT, TOO LATE. | You are making excuses for programmed behaviours formally established in WAR POLICY; nothing was accidental in the way the U.S. prosecuted that thirty-year war to enslave the Viets.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Lísten to Vc national anthem “pledge to dismember and drink enemies’ blood.’and look at the torture of Mac Cain and others POW right in Hanoi their capital…After war,all military officers,most NCOs ,all medium ranking in the civilian administration,poets ,journalists.novelists…were rounded up and deported to remote mountainous areas.They even organized school youngsters,population to throw rocks over prisoners.I don’t know why even international media seem to conceal those barbaric treatments of POWs.Even now Hanoi still denies it aggression of SVN and accuses Americans as agressors.Do not ever trust Vc.Most people are so brainwashed that perfidy and treason become current.Now prisons outnumber elementary schools ….That’s why lots of foreigners think they’re friendly .Those people ignore the policy of three generation watch.

[@johnconlon9652]

Blatent lies. Prisoners should not be bound or blind-folded to start with. Disgusting.

[@isaiasmiranda8356]

Foram estrangeiros internacional com muita capacidade esperiencia e muito competência de muitos estudos para vencer os americanos no campo de batalha tenho que reconhecer a competência de vocêis povo do Vietnã 🇻🇳 parabéns 👏 ass: Isaías do 🇧🇷 apoiando a 🇺🇦

[@phuocminhtran9263]

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[@rakyatmarhaen3889]

There are few place in the world that Geneva thing didn't exist CIA black site and gitmo Geneva my ass!!!!

[@John-lv1zq]

Thrown from helicopters

[@huynhly9740]

Mỹ và VNCH đối sử với tu binh Việt cộng rất nhân văn.

[@bannguyen1057]

khac voi cong san , khac voi viet cong

[@minhsontran6271]

3 que rác rưỡi, bọn phản quốc nên bị giết sạch sau 1975

[@sonduong5802]

Đúng là như vậy

[@speedloc968]

Nhân văn như côn đảo hả

[@phule1881]

Nhân văn trong chuồng cọp hả lũ me mỹ

[@davidbrattain1446]

Should never have gotten involved. Like Korea, Afghanistan, Ukraine. We should get involved when a NATO country is under attack and then, only to reduce the enemy to dust. War is cruelty.

[@xenxenwijaya4447]

I want to see us president on this era being captured by viet cong . Soon he will command peace for all nation for the rest of his life

[@4321grp]

xenxen wijaya, Presidents Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon are both dead.

[@7mattof]

Almost every word spoken in this progapgand film is a lie.

[@hcghhghj9608]

And what are doing in Foreign country

[@johnharrison6745]

Fumigating problematic insects. 😈

[@lisavu2520]

WTF

[@davidaustrian9455]

I have heard of VC being thrown out of helicopters if they did not talk after being captured by some frustrated US special forces.

[@tuctuanh1852]

Sad because our country has a civil war, sad because the motherland has been trampled for thousands of years, so the Vietnamese people don't want to ask anyone for help, because really no country wants to help a poor country. always suffer from poverty. considered a weak people, but we did not submit.

[@tvk9030]

buồn vì tất cả điều người việt na nhưng vì tư tưởng khác nhau mà gây chiến làm cả một thể hệ thụt lùi nếu cả 2 miền cùng nhau phát triển có thể việt nam là một trong những nước mạnh nhất tại châu á và duy nhất tại đông nam á

[@tiendung639]

Cái gì mà nội chiến? Cả nửa triệu quân nước ngoài đồn trú ở VN mà gọi là nội chiến à? Đó là một cuộc xâm lược của đế quốc Mỹ

[@tvk9030]

@@tiendung639 đúng rồi mỹ xâm lược hàn quốc , nhật , các nước khối nato .v.v.. mỗi miền nam việt nam là tháo chạy

[@phlilipsdo9771]

What the heck you want to say?How old are you?DidHanoi Vc asked Russia ,Comchin for help?No?then why they gave weapons to Hanoi.Was Hanoi forced to get their weapons?and killed SVN people?do you still have brain?

[@phlilipsdo9771]

@@tvk9030 Bắcvc tấn công miền Nạn gây bao nhiêu tầng tóc!Sau khi chiếm được miền Nam thì cướp hết tiền bạc,nhà cửa… Ngày nay đất nước bị Trung cộng ủy hiệp khó có ngày thoát ra.Miền Nam chiến đấu để bảo vệ tự do nên khg có gì phải đáng tiếc.Nhờ vậy 29 triệu dân miền Nam được 20 năm tự do . Thứ tưởng tượng 20 năm dưới ách cộng sản đi.

[@jon.p.]

You know what the problem here is? Why should the video treat the Viet Cong as POW. Geneva Convention and POW status only applies to external armed conflict and lawful combatants. Since the official combatant fighting on the communist side were the insurgent Viet Cong, and the illegitimacy or unrecognition of the North by the South, legally, the Latter could contend that this is an armed conflict, thus, international law on the treatment of POWs should not be applied but rather prisoners should be treated as common criminals subject to the criminal code or any special penal laws of South Vietnam. This video is nothing but a propaganda by the US. It is very US centric. The US were fighting for the South at the behest and invitation of the latter. Theoretically, US is fighting in an internal conflict, and should reflect as such. The legal lexicon of POW should not have been used since it exclusively used for external combatants.

[@dmeinhertzhagen8764]

Now we know this was all complete BS!

[@richardnightingale9086]

A foreign country invades the United States. Tell me honestly friend....would you let a piece of paper written up almost a hundred years ago dictate what and how you were to “act” in your response to the occupation. The fact is , I know there isn’t anything written or said that would harbor my decision to unleash the most horrific of treatments to those occupants on my country’s soil. The reality is that if that were to ever happen I’m assuming that our citizens would unleash the most un Godly of terrors upon the invading forces, that afterwards. They would have to be treated for all sorts of emotional problems.

[@thomasfx3190]

That’s why guys like you don’t write legislation or treaties.

[@onliner10000]

In that case. Your veteran friends or family members deserve all of that too

[@davidgibson3631]

@@thomasfx3190 legislation or treaties just break up every time for nation profit

[@marianotorrespico2975]

Richard Nightingale -- SURE. | . . . and the Victim is: The imperialist white saviour tortured by the screams and the spilt blood of Asian Communists defending their Asian country from North American invaders. Go figure.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

There are no USA colony,Only communist propaganda to convince idiots.

[@tomnguyen23771]

The commentary here is 1000% fake!!!

[@tocu9808]

bullshit !

[@Medietos]

Surprising that none of the US hatred and twisted image of the vietnamese was seen i this video. Of course it wasn't the soldiers themselves, who were young, inexperienced, misinformed, stressed and frighetened and probably did som of their evildeeds under those influences.

[@d.cypher2920]

The Congressional hearing on the Phoenix Program in Vietnam::: "...what was the Phoenix Program?" *the Phoenix Program was essentially a computerized assassination program.* "...how many people were captured and subjected to this process, within the program?" *about 20,000-40,000 people.* "...how many people survived?" *I don't know of any people who survived, sir.* "...not one?" *no, i don't believe so, sir. I don't know of any.* "...you're saying that they ALL died?!!" *yes.* 😒😔😳😳

[@trangchu2945]

Kaka Tôi đã cười. Nó rất tốt khi bạn xem, nhưng thật sự người lính của chúng tôi, bị cưa chân đến 3 lần ông ta đã còn sống và kể lại về nỗi đau đó nó rất kinh khủng.

[@Loppoz56]

Thì biết sao được đây là cách người mỹ tuyên truyền và tẩy não người dân của họ mà , đến bây giờ người mỹ vẫn nghĩ mình là người tốt trong cuộc chiến này

[@bannguyen1057]

UHM de quoc my no ac ghe , the ma gio bon viet cong dua con chau qua My sinh song , ma cha may bo do DLV cong no tay sai cho san cho cong san nGa tau suc vat

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Cái chuyện này giống như Lê v Tám đốt kho đạn của Pháp .Người bác sĩ Mỹ không bao giờ làm cái việc như thế.Chỉ là tuyên truyền ngu ngốc của VC cho dân ngu nghe thôi.

[@Loppoz56]

Nice propaganda

[@tienhuynh9958]

Your brain is full of shit

[@ThaiNguyen-bu6ps]

LIE😩

[@thewall7300]

It over. don't use this video to make more money.

[@phlilipsdo9771]

Sorry .VC always try to get money.Communists are mafias disguised under political parties.

[@Califresh21]

Phoenix program was evil

[@phlilipsdo9771]

What do you know about Phoenix not thru Vc propaganda.

[@Califresh21]

@@phlilipsdo9771 kill anything that moves an audio book and phoenix program was a terrorist program ran by cia

[@Renard786]

US propaganda as usual

[@headshot8888]

Propaganda?