Ms. Que Banh @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party
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behind the 1908 Hanoi Poison Plot detained at the Hoa Lo Prison by the French colonists in 1941.

13 of them had their heads chopped off instantly and displayed in public. The French later used the photo for an postcard.

Whilst the second world war was raging across the world, in Vietnam the Movement, led by famed revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, was taking birth. had one dream. An independent Vietnam free of foreign rule.

The first year after the war had Japan, and then Britain keen to get their hands on Vietnam. But they were soon replaced by Vietnam’s old colonial rulers: the French.

For nine long years, thereafter, from 1946 to 1954 the First Indochina War ripped across the country. Spilling blood, lives, and peace. On one side were the French. More adamant to stay. More aggressive in their rule. They were helped by the US who provided advisers, funding, and weapons from behind the scenes.
Anti-communist Vietnamese loyalists aided the French rulers’ legitimacy. On the other side was Ho Chi Minh and his revolutionaries.

Things eventually came to a head in 1954 with the Geneva Conference and creation of the 17th Parallel, a Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] on 17 degrees latitude north.

Black and white photograph showing a line of bound prisoners seated on a wooden bench inside a prison, a historical image. The prisoners are Vietnamese men. Each is restrained with wooden yokes around their necks and legs confined. The image is taken from a postcard, with text in French that reads "TONKIN - Crimes inculpés dans le complot des Empoisonneurs (Juillet 1908) à la barre de Justice, dans la prison", and a postage stamp.
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