Page 91 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

A squad Amy French soldier conducted Nguyen, his
grandparents into the church's front yard of the village, where
the people had separated to the three groups and sat on the
ground by the soldiers' order.

All the old people and children were in a group at the right
corner of the church. The young women and girls were in a
group in the left corner. Few of them were holding the infants on
their arms, feeding them by her milk's breast in the hot sun.

A man group was on the front of the church with the heavy
French soldier guards. They were the principal for the
interrogate and torture of French soldiers to find the information
about Viet-Minh. Also, French soldiers might kill them any time
by the officer’s order. Or a French soldier wanted to play cat and
mouse game on a man victim. He continued to shoot around a
victim on the ground to make a victim jumping until he got a
bullet and died.

French soldiers watched them very closely with the rifles on
their hands. They prepared to shot at someone if they had
suspiciously that a victim was Viet-Minh and wants to escape.

All the people in the village sat on the ground under the hot
sun and quiet. They are bending their heads looking down at the
front of French soldiers' rifles and were afraid to be killed.

Sometimes, a woman cried loudly and screamed escaped
from the young women group. Nguyen saw few French
militarist soldiers forcing her out of a group with their evil
actions. Two soldiers dragged her arms, and another kicked her
buttock while she was struggling to against them. They slapped
on her face and tore her top off by their evil passion that
appeared on their eyes and hands, which run all over her breast.
She was crying in the top of her voice for help, but the people
feared for the death by the French soldier's rifles directed at
them and waiting to open fire.

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