Page 223 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Most French Union soldiers seized some unarmed suspects
in the bushes, beat those suspects by the butts and kicked on the
body victim as they kicked the ball in playing the field before
they bind the arms victim behind the back. They extradited the
victims to the headquarters place, where the intelligence soldiers
tortured the victims for the Vietminh information and killed
them without reason. Also, French Union soldiers always
captured the young women in the cellars and carried them out to
rape them on the corner of the house or bushes. Few victims fell
in consciousness by fear, but the French soldiers were still
raping their bodies. Some victims died by the raping group, and
other victims were living in the silent of shame for whole life.

Most the time French Union and Vietnamese soldiers drove
the people onto the common ground of the church or pagoda and
threaten them to find Vietminh agents. They kept the nasty
screaming for the people to give them the hiding enemy places.
All of the victims were always quietly to look at them in fear to
die. They prayed in silent and cried in suffering. Even they knew
about Vietminh hiding places and agents, but they could not give
that information to French militarist, because the Viet Minh
guerrillas will kill them and their families after the French
militarist left the scene.

After a few dozens fighting soldiers die and wounded by the
sniper shot, the French operation troops were getting angry, and
fell into a crisis of war and die. They destroyed the villages and
paddy field to look for the enemy without think of the victim
and disaster that the people had gotten in painful suffering in
their living.

They often could not find a Vietminh soldier. Instead, they
saw the dead civilian bodies lying everywhere on the roads,
burned in the collapsed houses, and broken to apart around the
bomb craters. The domestic animals died in the stables and were
free to run out the villages with their afraid and dangerous. They
heard the weaken voice of the wounded, who were creaming in
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