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VIETNAM | Wednesday, 2 August 2006 | Views [5260] | Comments [10]

Guillotine used during the Vietnam War, in the War Remnants Museum

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1

america will die

the devil Jan 2, 2008 4:56 AM

2

Umm. okay... Just for clarification purposes, I'm pretty sure both the Americans and the Vietnamese did atrocious things during the war. Just a hunch.

realeyes Jan 2, 2008 7:41 AM

3

I think the information you have here is either incorrect or you have been swallowed too much VC propaganda. This device might have been used by the French colonists or the Nguyen dynasty before Vietnam war. It's impossible for the South Vietnam government or Americans to use this device during the Vietnam war. Check your sources again.

A Vietnamese American Feb 13, 2008 8:39 PM

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My source is the museum where the photo was snapped. The museum isn't exactly politically neutral, but there was a sign stating that it is a French Guillotine and it was used as late as the 1960s. It's quite possible that it's propanganda... but I don't think that it's "impossible" either.

realeyes Feb 14, 2008 6:07 AM

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i agree with number 3's suggustion i don't think the vietnamise used guillotine's during the war

man you people are retarded idiots

your mom Mar 4, 2008 3:40 AM

6

I think you're all retarded. It's the past. Let it go.

If you're so worried about it, go back in time and find out.

None of you will know who's right, so get over it.

Some Guy May 5, 2008 11:55 PM

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Everything in the past is a mystery waiting to be soleved. So you will just have to deal with the information or images that have been given to you. They always try to do as much research as they can to be able to tell the truth behind everything that they have collected for information.

funky monkey May 12, 2008 5:12 PM

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I agree with Numbr 6's answer...This is no longer used...Get over it...People will always speculate about who did what and how the other side was wrong

Anonymous Sep 2, 2008 3:16 AM

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"It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them …. What good fortune for governments that the people do not think." -- Adolph Hitler.

What’s really funny (in a depressing sort of way!) is that by burying such images (and associated incidents) in the past we are deliberately sweeping the dirt under the carpet and intentionally blind to horrors going on right at the present! Have we become a nation of intellectual paraplegics? Blind ones at that! Can’t you feel the firm rug of Freedom yanked away from under you as yet? The lies, officially sanctioned torture, pretext for wars, our prostituted civil rights, The “Patriot” Act, the effective annulment of Posse Comitatus statutes, the economy belly-up, loss of face before the World community a la shoe-on-mug of our deserving Presidente, more to come …. “Burying it in the Past” is like burying your head in the sand! Let’s learn from History, Folks or it will repeat itself right here in the (former) Good ol’ US of A! WAKE THE FUDGE UP, AMERICA! QUICKLY! LEST WE SEE THE RESURGENCE OF THE LIKES OF HITLER, STALIN, MAO WITHIN OUR SHORES!

Captain Howdy Mar 13, 2009 9:39 AM

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After 1966 public firing squad crescents in Saigon were shut down(bad PR back in the states) One of the crescents was in front of the Railroad station at the big market.
So the old French guillotines in the basement of the Ministry of Justice were recommissioned.(much more discreet).
The Justice ministry was just across the street from the Catholic Cathedral. Local wags said,"Heaven and Hell stood side by side".

Highlander Jan 5, 2018 7:12 PM