Page 111 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Every night, French militarist platoon had a mission to
patrol around their area of two or three-mile diameters.
Sometimes, French militarist soldiers saw the people destroying
the high ways, lay mines underground in the dim moonlight in
the accidence. They opened fire at the Vietnamese people
without affected their hearts and regard their knowledge to
understand about the people, who lived under both side rules.
After all, French soldiers came into the killing field they saw
the pickers on the dead bodies' hands with indifference on their
faces. They overturned each person to identify and find the rifle,
but they could not see any gun and suspect Viet-Minh soldier for
any dead bodies.

Viet-Minh agents and guerrilla region soldiers had been
slipping and ran away before French troops came into the area
and shot at the people. They let the people die, wound in the
dreadful with nothing to defend and without help in the moment
of a dangerous situation.

Few times, in the group of a villager, has a person, who
resisted the destroying plant of Viet-Minh terrorist agent and
thought of the danger for the people. Most the times a Viet-Minh
terrorist leader said the fair words to the people and made the
people’s emotion were calm down in order, such as he did not
pay attention to his opponents. His special black notebook will
have the name of the opponents with all details and will report to
his commander. The dead punishment for the opponents would
be happening someday late in few months or a year if Viet-
Minh terrorist agents had a chance to go the killing missions.

Viet-Minh terrorist agents were over the patient to wait for
the villagers calm down, went back the normal living and forget
their dirty actions. Then somehow at midnight few Viet-Minh
terrorist agents will come in the village, knock at the door of
their opponent. They brought the opponent far away from the
village, put him standing in the foxhole and buried him alive
with his head on the ground. Sometimes, they tied the victim
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