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They had no name ..
.. Just a number.
Torn from their families and their country, they came to France, replacing
workers left to fight against Germany ...
They were twenty thousands
herded like cattle into the holds of ships
they came to help the Motherland in danger
they were between 16 and 20 years
they were forced to handle gunpowder, fill the shells,
and to grout...
They received no pay and were confined in camps
as prisoners ...
Under the Occupation,
the French State sold their work to the Germans,
and to traitors boss...
They faced the worst diseases in the Camargue
many starved
died from cold
and exhaustion ...
They were the pioneers of rice cultivation in France.
After the Liberation,
they hoped independence for their colonized country
but the free France held to its French Indochina ...
Workers convicts of the Republic,
considered as traitors in their country
they were the forgotten from History, between France and Vietnam ...
They are the Công Binh,
surviving witnesses of a long Indochinese night