Currently doing my History reading. Good stuff mentioned by Howard Zinn.
Here are the Vietnamese complaints against the French:
"They have enforced inhuman laws.... They have built more prisons than schools. They have mercilessly slain our patriots, they have drowned uprisings in rivers of blood. They have fettered public opinion.... They have robbed us of our rice fields, our mines, our forests, and our raw materials....
They have invented numerous unjustifiable taxes and reduced our people, especially our peasantry, to a state of extreme poverty...
...from the end of last year, to the beginning of this year...more than two million of our fellow-citizens died of starvation....
The whole Vietnamese people, animated by a common purpose, are determined to fight to the bitter end against any attempt by the French colonialists to reconquer their country."
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