EXECUTED VIET CONG
China Calls Him Hero
fN Z. Press Assn.—Copyright} TOKYO, July 4 Tran Van Dang, the Viet Cong terrorist executed in a Saigon market place on June 22, has entered the ranks of martyred Communist heroes, monitored transmissions from Peking disclosed today. “The people gnashed their teeth and their eyes were burning with anger at the barbarous crime of the enemy,*' the official New China News Agency said. Dang, aged 24, was executed after his arrest near a U.S. military hotel with plastic explosives and a time fuse hidden in his motor scooter. He was convicted and sentenced by a military tribunal.
The agency said he enlisted in the Viet Cong in late 1964 with the vow to “kill with my own hands the U.S. pirates who are looting the fruits gained with our sweat and tears and are causing untold sufferings to many of my lot.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30794, 5 July 1965, Page 13
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