vietnamese through centuries
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Annamese (colonial troops from French Indochina) disembarking at Camp Saint-Raphael. Over the course of the war, nearly 100,000 Indochinese were deployed in Europe, most as laborers, but several thousand also served in combat battalions. (Bibliotheque nationale de France)
Vietnamese in 1915
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Vietnamese in 1915
In 1915, 4,600 ‘‘Annamites’’, Indochinese workers from the Annam Region (Vietnam) arrived at the Port of Marseille to support the French war effort, essentially dedicated to logistical tasks, yet sometimes taking part in combat alongside the ‘‘Poilus’’ (French front-line soldiers in WWI). © ECPAD Vietkieusa
French colonial troops on the Salonika Front during the First World Ware. They’re a Commpany of Annamites, a French Colonial Marine. Au total, de 1916 à 1918, plus d’un millier de natifs de l’Union indochinoise sont tués au combat en France et en Orient.
Vietnamese in 1916
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Vietnamese workers at a train station in Saint-Raphaël, France, in 1916.
Vietnamese in 1916
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One of the two Vietnamese workers in this photograph from August 1916 is without shoes, perhaps due to shoe shortage or possibly, like many others, he did not like to wear shoes.
Vietnamese in 1916
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Three Vietnamese workers logging in the forest of Compiègne near La Croix Saint-Ouen, supervised by Europeans, on 11 October 1916.
Vietnamese in 1916
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Three Vietnamese soldiers off-duty, relaxing in front of a building in Crèvecoeur-le-Grand, August 1916
Vietnamese in 1916
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Vietnamese workers breaking stones to maintain the road from Bar-le-Duc to Verdun, 17 November 1916.
Vietnamese in 1916
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A Vietnamese worker in an arsenal in Tarbes, France, during the First World War.
Vietnamese in 1916
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Vietnamese and French workers in an arsenal in Tarbes, France, during the First World War.
Vietnamese in 1916
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Vietmanese workers in the shell factory of the Tarbes Arsenal
Vietnamese in 1915
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Tarbes Arsenal: ammunition factory (April 1916).
Vietnamese in 1916
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Tarbes Arsenal: Technical Department (April 1916)
Vietnamese in 1916
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Vietnamese soldier performing guard duty in Champs-de-Mars in Paris, in front of the Tour Eiffel, on 22 June 1916.
Vietnamese in 1916
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Vo Thang Long, the first Vietnamese soldier who was awarded a military medal, on 31 August 1916. He was injured while serving in the 34th Colonial Infantry Regiment (34e R.I)
Vietnamese in 1916
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Vietnamese soldiers standing in line, waiting to be awarded the “Croix de Guerre” for “having stopped the enemies from advancing to Compiègne,” 17 June 1918.
Vietnamese in 1916
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Interned in campsin June 1940, the French defeat suddenly puts an end to the requisitions. 4,500 of them can be sent home before the British naval blockade should prevent the French ship's route to the Orient. The remaining 15,000 were sent to south area, and interned in a dozen camps Indochinese workers in Marseille, Sorgue, Agde, Toulouse, Bergerac, Bordeaux, Saint-Chamas and Venissieux. Led by French officers in the colonial army, they will apply a very strict discipline, using bullying, assault and racism as they are practiced in the colonies.
Vietnamese in 1940
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Photographies taken in private photographer shops in garrison towns at the initiative of the Vietnamese workers, and retained by the censorship bureaus when they reached Indochina
Vietnamese in 1916
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Photographies taken in private photographer shops in garrison towns at the initiative of the Vietnamese workers, and retained by the censorship bureaus when they reached Indochina
Vietnamese in 1916
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Photographies taken in private photographer shops in garrison towns at the initiative of the Vietnamese workers, and retained by the censorship bureaus when they reached Indochina
Vietnamese in 1916
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Mr. Do Vy in France with his wife in 1946 and Vietnam in 2006 © Luguern Collection. Source: Liem Khe-Luguern
Vietnamese in 1946 … in 2006
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A French- Vietnamese couple in September 1953 à Thiers (Puy-de-dôme). © Collection Pham. Source : Liem-Khe LUGUERN
Ultimately, France has captured the elite of workers required and repressed in the colony the proletarianised peasantry and the acquired independence of Vietnam. Beyond individual destinies, Indochinese workers required in 1939 and who have taken root in France are collectively the product of a social sorting operated upstream and strengthened by the colonial administration.
Vietnamese in 1953
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Over one thousand Indochinese peasants were deported toToulouse in 1940 as forced laborers including the arms industry . Henry Sau Nguyen is one of 20,000 Indochinese recruited, mostly by force in 1939 to work in French factories. Of these, about 3,000 have passed through Toulouse .
Sau Nguyen 1939 …Henry Sau Nguyen 2012
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Time changes everything, people may say, but how? That’s the enigma. In appearance everything changes over time, unfortunately the dirty core of everything stays eternally unchanged to VIETNAMESE.
One Century ago Vietnamese lamented that they were recruited and forced to go to France to work, but ironically one century later, they even have to bribe to have the chance to pay to be recruited, through a tough selection, to go to everywhere but Vietnam to work.
…for a much better life compared to the one offered a century ago? No!... for an even worse one … which is Incredibly true…or to be exact absurd but true.
Look at all the following pictures and tell me that this absurdity is untrue if you can
Vietnamese through centuries
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Taiwan received 15,106 Vietnamese guest labourers in the first six months of this year, accounting for nearly 47 per cent of the number of Vietnamese labourers going abroad for overseas jobs.
Vietnamese NOW, in … 2013
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South Korea has stopped receiving workers from Vietnam since the number of runaway Vietnamese workers who overstay their visas to work illegally in the country has increased steadily and there are no sign of improvement.
Vietnamese NOW, in … 2012
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They rescued 90 of the women from the karaoke bar and the remainder from the restaurant. Only 37 of the women had passports with them.
Vietnamese NOW, in 2014
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Thousands of illegal foreign labor migrants, most of whom being Vietnamese nationals, were detained during a large-scale sweatshop raid conducted by police in Moscow in late July. They were placed at a camp with 200 green tents located in the eastern Golyanovo district on Aug 1.
Vietnamese NOW, in … 2013
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…Police detained some 1,400 migrants, mostly from Vietnam, over alleged violations of migration rules.“The conditions of detention are bad. Forty people staying in a 50-square-meter tent – these are simply inhuman conditions,” Le Hong Truong, Vietnamese Embassy in Moscow, said Monday, Russian media reported.
Vietnamese NOW in … 2013
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Vietnamese NOW in … 2012
Huynh Thi Be Huong said she was among four women who initially fled the Vietnamese-run brothel in January and, through relatives back home, sought help from the Vietnamese Embassy at the Russian capital.
But possible links between an official at the embassy, who had handled their case, and the brothel owner led to their recapture by the brothel's ringleaders, she told RFA’s Vietnamese Service.
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In what way do proletarians differ from slaves?The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly.
How such grotesque conception of life, sending people overseas to work as servants, can be acceptable in the Vietnamese society nowadays? Merely because the VietNam leaders, elected from the Communist party, take their roots from the Proletariat (from Latin proletarius, a citizen of the lowest class) which is a term to identify the lowest social class; a class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor, a class of domestic servitude.
As long as the leaders of Vietnam still come from the proletariat or to be much more precise the Vietnamese communist party, all Vietnamese will be trained, sooner or later, to live the life of a Servant just like these Vietnamese leaders who have always proclaimed themselves: “ the Servants of the people”. If the leaders of VietNam enjoy a life of servitude, what future can all Vietnamese expect to have?... You certainly have the answer…
Vietnamese through centuries
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