This execution site were established in the years 1965 - 1966 when the situation in South Vietnam was extremely chaotic, there were continuous coups, monks protested, the VC exploded bombs in the middle of Saigon, and crooks took advantage of the difficult situation to speculate, hoard, manipulate the market to get rich... The SVN government at that time had to set up this special military court to try many outstanding cases with severe sentences, not only for terrorists or crooks, but some corrupt government officials also suffered severe punishments as many documents or books of the day recorded. These public executions were aimed at suppressing crime with a deterrent character, but also gained a lot of international notoriety, especially when foreign journalists were sympathetic to the VC and intended to oppose the SVN government - they distorted the truth to exploit propaganda...
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