1905: Two murderers beheaded in French Indochina
1 comment March 7th, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1905, this happened in French Indochina:
“Annamites” — a term that will not get you a warm welcome in Southeast Asia today — were residents of the French protectorate of Annam. It, along with Tonkin to its north and Cochinchina to its south, comprise present-day Vietnam: “Annamite” was also sometimes generalized as a colonialist synonym for all Vietnamese. (Here’s a 1947 Life magazine article by William Bullitt that does just that in its warning about the burgeoning war wherein “Annamites — half starved and weakened by malaria, gentle by nature but courageous” had started “kill[ing] every Frenchman they can.”)
Postcard pictures on this post via BeheadedArt.com, which delivers what it promises. (Clicker beware.)
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