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...long wanted to revolt," said a young man named Nguyen Khai Diem. "But we started the uprising in earnest when we received the letter from Chairman Ho saying that freedom was being given back to the people, and we found that...
...most serious revolts, according to Nguyen, were in the predominately Catholic area around Quynh Luu, but other refugees had told him that there were similar uprisings in the suburbs of Hanoi itself, in Phat Diem, Thanh Hoa and Vinh. In many cases, solidly Buddhist peasants were prevented from joining their Catholic co-rebels only by hastily deployed units of the Viet Minh army...
They fought in ignorance of the rest of the world; they had not even heard of the revolt in Hungary. "We knew nothing of the freedom in the South," said Nguyen. "We did not know that the French had already left South Viet Nam. They told us that here there was no food, that all the women had been forced to become prostitutes, and that the people made pies of the flesh of children. We did not know, but we did know that there was death up there in the North...
Reactionary. In Saigon, after he broke through the roof and kidnaped two girls from the government school for re-education of ex-prostitutes, turned them loose, Nguyen Van Thuan explained to police: "I don't want my girl friends re-educated. I like them as they...
...salary-only if they forfeited their French citizenship. With the exodus of French firms, it became difficult for them to find any sort of work. Premier Diem signed a law requiring all Vietnamese with names like Jean. Henri or Marcel to take genuine Indo-Chinese names like Nguyen, Tran or Trinh. Forced to choose between two worlds, many fled in desperation to France, where the government has set up refugee camps and schools for them...