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Assassination of Alfred François Bazin

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83:. Others were sent to distant French colonies such as the New Hebrides. The working conditions in which the Vietnamese were placed generated indignation. The methods of recruitment often included beating or coercion, as the foreman received a commission for each recruit. The living conditions were poor and the remuneration was low. Among the Vietnamese population, the perception was that those recruited would never set eyes on their homeland again. The French colonial authorities refused to intervene, claiming both that recruitment "had no official character"; and that recruitment was beneficial to the Vietnamese, since it eased the 122:
implicated Nguyen Văn Viên as his alleged accomplice. Viên was then captured, but later committed suicide in prison. The sources disagree, but between three and four hundred men were rounded up. Of those seized, 36 were government clerks, 13 were officials in the French government, 36 were schoolteachers, 39 were merchants, 37 were landowners and 40 were military personnel. Eventually 78 men were convicted and sentenced to between five and twenty years in prison. Léon Sanh himself was acquitted. As a result of the arrests, the VNQDĐ leadership was severely depleted. Most of the Central Committee were captured, and Hoc and
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Scott McConnell Leftward Journey: The Education of Vietnamese Students in France 1989 p. 40 "A wounded war veteran and a man of some personal means, Monet went to Indochina after the war as a ... At the University of Hanoi, Monet established a foyer, a dormitory which he outfitted with a library of
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that would weaken the party. He felt that it was better to work towards the overthrow of the French colonial system of which Bazin was merely a minor tool. Having been turned down by the VNQDĐ leaders, Nguyen Văn Viên made his own plan. With the help of an accomplice, this individual shot and killed
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Silk roads: the Asian adventures of Clara and André Malraux Axel Madsen – 1990 "by malaria, dysentery, and malnutrition that at one Michelin Tire Company plantation, twelve thousand out of forty-five thousand died between 1917 and 1944.1 When the hated Bazin left his girlfriend's house in Hanoi, an
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Annales: Débats parlementaires: Volume 140 Assemblée nationale (1871–1942). Chambre des députés – 1930 "Cette société secrète avait pour but de libérer l'Indochine de la tutelle française. Son existence fut révélée à la suite du meurtre do M. Bazin, conseiller du commerce extérieur, directeur d'un
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As predicted by Nguyễn Thái Học, the French authorities reacted by apprehending all known members of the VNQDĐ that they could track down, including a young naturalized Frenchman named Léon Sanh. Sanh confessed to the crime, but he later retracted it, claiming only to be a bystander. He later
60:(Paris, 1930). Monet was a wounded French war veteran who visited Vietnam and became incensed by the treatment of workers by his countrymen. He coined the contemptuous term "jaunier" (Yellow-slave-trader) from "négrier", African slave-trader. According to Monet, Bazin was a graduate of the 183:
Cahiers du communisme: Volume 56, Issues 9–12 Parti communiste français. Comité central, Parti communiste français – 1980 "11 Le 9 février 1 929, le V.N.Q.D.D. a fait exécuter Bazin, un ancien administrateur des services civils devenu recruteur de main-d'œuvre, notamment pour les...
79:, was part of French Indochina. Under the direction of Bazin, Vietnamese foremen were hired to recruit Vietnamese laborers to work on plantations. In some cases, the hired work-force would be utilised in southern Vietnam, which the French ruled as the colony of 99:
Alfred Bazin had come to symbolize the abuses of the recruitment system amongst the Annamite workers involved. Within the VNQDĐ, which had then been in existence for two years, a group led by Nguyen Văn Viên suggested assassinating Alfred Bazin.
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of 1930, which resulted in a large section of the party being executed by the French authorities, decapacitating it as a major threat to the colonial order.
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Volume 2 1971 "Bazin, a former student of the Ecole Coloniale, "had almost monopolized the extremely lucrative job" of recruiter, according to Monet, p."
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The pressure under which the VNQDĐ was placed eventually led it to engage in overt violent struggle. This culminated in the
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in Paris, who had served as a colonial official before becoming a supervisor of labour recruitment in
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Nouvelles-Hébrides. « L'exécution du négrier Bazin traduisait déjà l'exaspération .."
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were among the few who managed to escape from the hideout at the Vietnam Hotel.
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Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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Since 1884 Vietnam had been a colony of France, and along with
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on February 9, 1929 marked the beginning of the demise of the
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1929 shooting of a French labour recruiter in Colonial Vietnam
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The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900–1941
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Index

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Hanoi
colonial Vietnam
Vietnamese Nationalist Party
colonial rule
École coloniale
French Indochina
Laos
Cambodia
Cochinchina
population pressure
Red River Delta
Nguyễn Thái Học
Sûreté générale indochinoise
mistress
Nguyen Khac Nhu
Yên Bái mutiny
Paul Monet
Duiker, William
The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900–1941
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Cornell University
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French Indochina
France–Asia relations

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