Page 177 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

their land over a thousand years by their ambition and profits.
Under the heel of the Chinese invader, they used Vietnamese as
the slavery by the killing rule without emotion in their eyes.
They forced the people into the jungle to find the elephant tusks,
rhinoceros horns, and all the valuables. They pressed the people
diving for the pearls in the ocean and do not pay attention to the
people who had killed by the wild lives. They used the young
women as sex-slaves and servants for their pleasance and proud
to be the Vietnamese’s masters. With the cruel rules, Chinese
Empire tried to put Vietnamese in their same category, used
Vietnamese as the slavery and took whole the Vietnam natural
resource for their motherland.

Nguyen was born in a time of the beginning of the World
War II 1943. The time of Japan looked at Indochina as their
profit in the future and the time of communism and Nationalism
movements had mushroomed secretly in Vietnam.

Nguyen lost his childhood in his village war between French
militarist and Vietminh troops. Nguyen's eyes were opening to
watch the dirty actions of Vietminh Agents and French militarist
in the village. His knowledge understood the effects of the war
on Vietnamese people and hated the cruel rules of Vietminh and
French colonial that applied on the people.

Nguyen teenage learned much more about the First
Indochina War from his father’s experience. He knew Vietnam
was the battlefield between the Vietnamese Communist party
(alias Vietminh) and French Colonialism. They were the bloody
nest to catch Vietnamese heads while the Vietnamese National
Movements were going down and weakly.

Nguyen’s manhood sat in the political and history class in
the Faculty of Letters in Saigon. He fell deep into the up and
down of the country history with the sorrow and pain. Also in
the same time, his life was threatened by Vietcong’s (alias
Vietminh) timing bombs, which Vietcong’s agent terrorists had
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