page_title: Viet Cong and People’s Army of Vietnam terror in the Vietnam War
section_title: 1968
hierarchical_section_title: Viet Cong and People’s Army of Vietnam terror in the Vietnam War / Partial list of attacks and incidents / 1968
caption_attribution_description: English: Searching -- Bits of tattered clothing, sandals and slippers are examined by South Vietnamese women who lost relatives in the 1968 Tet massacre. The latest mass grave discovered in Hue yielded remains of 250 victims
context_page_description: Murder, kidnapping, torture and general intimidation were a routine part of Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam operations during the Vietnam War and were calculated to cow the populace, liquidate opponents, erode the morale of South Vietnamese government employees, and boost tax collection and propaganda efforts. Estimates of the total number of South Vietnamese civilians killed by the VC/PAVN between 1954 and 1975 range from 106,000 to 227,000.
context_section_description: January 20: A VC armed propaganda team entered Tam Quan, Bình Định Province, gathered 100 people for a propaganda session; one prominent village elder objected and was shot to death.
  January 31 - February 28: in the Massacre at Huế the VC killed between 2,800 and 6,000 captured soldiers, Government officials and civilians.
  April 6: A VC group entered That Vinh Dong, Tây Ninh Province; they sold several thousand piasters worth of "war bonds" and then departed, taking with them a school teacher, the hamlet chief's two daughters and nephew and six other males aged 15 or 16.
  May 5 - June 22: some 417 rockets were fired indiscriminately into Saigon, chiefly in the densely-populated Fourth District killing 115 and wounding 528.
  May 29: A VC unit stopped all traffic on Route 155 in Vĩnh Bình Province; 50 civilians were kidnapped, including a Protestant minister; two buses and 28 three-wheeled taxis were burned.
  June 28: in the Son Tra massacre 73 civilians and 15 CORDS workers were killed in the attack and a further 103 civilians were wounded. 570 homes were destroyed in the attack and the resulting fires leaving almost 2,800 people homeless
  July 28: Four VC, detonated a 60-pound plastique charge in city room of Chợ Lớn Daily News, the most prominent of city's seven Chinese language newspapers, after ordering workers out of building; the four escaped before police arrived.
  September 12: A VC report (captured in Bình Dương Province) from the Châu Thành District Security Section to the provincial Party Central Committee stated that seven prisoners in the district's custody were shot prior to an expected allied sweep operation, the report read: "we killed them to make possible our safe escape.”
  September 26: A grenade was thrown into Bến Thành market, killing one person and wounding 11.
  December 11: A VC unit appeared at the home of the provincial People's Self-Defense Force chief in Tri Ton, Châu Đốc Province; they tied him up and then executed him.
caption: Searching for relatives killed in the Massacre at Huế
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