Huế 1968 by Mark Bowden5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() As empires crumbled in the aftermath of the Second World War, the French were faced with increasing cries for national self-determination in their colonies. The French had ruled over what are now Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia under the name of French Indochina since the nineteenth century. ![]() In fact, the reasons for the conflict go much further back. More than 40 years since it came to a close, the horrors of the Vietnam War remain etched into our collective memory, a proxy for the Cold War at large. The Vietnam War was rooted in the region’s colonial history.
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