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Bay Lop

The photo shows General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, arm outstretched, shooting a prisoner who looked like a civilian, though he was actually a Viet Cong guerrilla. The man who was shot was Bay Lop, who had beheaded people, gunned down policemen, and killed the family of one of General Loan’s friends. That does not necessarily justify what Loan did, but when stripped of context, it looked like someone from the South Vietnamese national police gunning down some helpless guy, and that was not the case. Bay Lop was the leader of a sophisticated assassination team that was attempting to knock off all the top leaders [of South Vietnam], and General Loan was on their list.

http://failuremag.com/index.php/feature/article/saigon_execution/
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