ATTEMPTS TO LEGITIMIZE POLITICAL POWER IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS FROM THE COLONIAL TO THE POST-COLONIAL PERIOD by Nguyễn Văn Bắc

“…In this "wilderness", various actors from outside interfered in, or even invaded, this strategically important area - first the Cham people and Champa feudal dynasties, then the empire of Vietnam, the French colonial power, the Viet Minh (and their successors), and finally the South Vietnamese State and the United States of America. …”
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The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited by Geoffrey Gunn

“…It survives in local memory and in fiction by Vietnamese writers.4The great famine was never construed as a war crime by the Allies, yet the question of blame, alongside agency or lack of it, was an issue between the French and the Viet Minh in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese surrender and entered into propaganda recriminations. …”
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