Page 207 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Nguyen had a little smile while he looked at Luat.

“How about King Gia-Long? Was he a good leader or bad?”

Luat shook his head.

“I could not judge him, because it is unnecessary and he had
to do something good for the country. But Gia-Long time was
the beginning of another war that came from West Empire, the
French colonialism. French colonial helped King Gia-Long to
win the Tay-Son by their troops and financial aid. Also, they
have been putting the interference policies onto his cabinet at the
same time in the slowly states. They processed the colonialism
in Vietnam and started to dominate Vietnam at Tourane.”

“Yes. It started to put the heavy pressure of colonialism at
the time of King Tu-Duc, Thieu-Tri then Ham-Nghi.”

In a low voice, Nguyen said.

“In fact, at 1859 French Colonials Union force occupied
Saigon. It was a mark for their cruel rules in Vietnam of nearly
one hundred years. Vietnam used to be the France colony
country, and Vietnamese were the slave of French Colonialism.
How many blood and tears of Vietnamese people covered this
land...! How many painful suffering had been occurring in this
country because of the crook politicians? They hunted the
power, money, and individualism for their profit, not for tactical
in the South. They planed using students to pull down the South
government and wished to rule the South as the North with the
communist rules.

The students were against the religion policies of a former
President Ngo-Dinh-Diem at 1963. Also, they stood to oppose
the dishonest and the policies of the General Council Revolution
of General Duong-Van-Minh, and Nguyen-Khanh at 1964, then

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