The Fate of Vietnam's First Revolution
Against The Current vol. 154
Pirani, Simon
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3363
Date Written: 2011-09-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13820
This book opens with a vivid, gut-wrenching account of the arrest, detention and torture of two young Vietnamese revolutionaries in Saigon in June 1936 by the Sûreté, the political police who defended France’s colonial might. We are spared no details: the electric shock treatment; the kicking; the insertion of a wood plank in the prisoner’s mouth while his wrists are tied back to his ankles and he is beaten.
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