Le saccage de l’ambassade de France à Saigon en juillet 1964
On the night of July 20, 1964, the Embassy of France in Saigon was sacked. The instigators of this act of vandalism and other anti-French demonstrations were refugees from the North, following the Geneva Accords of 1954. Under the xenophobic veneer, these acts crystallized the refugees’ reaction to...
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2014
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | On the night of July 20, 1964, the Embassy of France in Saigon was sacked. The instigators of this act of vandalism and other anti-French demonstrations were refugees from the North, following the Geneva Accords of 1954. Under the xenophobic veneer, these acts crystallized the refugees’ reaction to a double threat to neutralize the conflict between Saigon and the communist insurgents. First, there was a foreign proposal from Charles de Gaulle’s new policy vis-à-vis the territories of the former Empire. The second was the movement within South Vietnam in favor of a cease-fire. These refugees, whose lives were changed dramatically with the end of the Indochina War, asserted their desire to continue fighting against communism and to lead the country into the Vietnam War. |
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