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Of all the illegal, never tested before on humans weaponry used by the US, the deadliest was #AgentOrange. It's a #toxic chemical herbicide/defoliant. #USTerrorists called their AOcampaign 1962-1971, #OperationRanchHand. Their purpose was to clear Vietnam’s forest cover & farms which hid/fed #VietCong resistance forces.

80 million litres were sprayed over 26,000 villages across 3.06 million hectares. Operation Ranch Hand not only defoliated vegetation & crops, but pushed numerous animal species to extinction & caused skin rashes, cancer & birth-defects down multiple generations(we're in our 4th generation of victims) in Vietnamese/Laotian/Cambodian peoples - all were exposed to the toxic sprays.

The US told their own military, who were foolish enough to trust their criminal government, that AO was safe to handle. Many US military personnel still live with lifelong effects from handling/being in close contact with AO. Unlike us, the civilian invasion survivors - US military people actually got help. We were ignored, repeatedly by the evil US government. The US government kept telling us there's no proof that their use of Agent Orange had serious bad human effects. Yet, they admitted it had effect on their military personnel. We aren't humans to US government then, nor now. They're still denying AO effects on Vietnamese folks & never paid reparations for it!

This is only part of what #TerroristUSA did to our peoples!

Evil USA used us as a fucking war munitions lab. The exact same way Zionazis used Gaza as a testing lab.

WAKE THE FUCK UP. USA NEVER STOPPED TERRORISM WAR CRIMES!

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Two black and white photographs. The left photo shows a woman cradling a deformed starving infant. The right photo shows a close-up of an infant's face with a facial deformities from Agent Orange, held by an unseen person.

Black and white photograph with a young Vietnamese child standing in a deforested area, surrounded by tree stumps and standing dead trees. The after effects of Agent Orange on our homelands.

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · 4 days ago

This is only part of what #TerroristUSA did to our peoples!

Evil USA used us as a fucking war munitions lab. The exact same way Zionazis used Gaza as a testing lab.

WAKE THE FUCK UP. USA NEVER STOPPED TERRORISM WAR CRIMES!

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party replied · 4 days ago

My Mom lost 9 family members in one week after a massive #AgentOrange spray attack over our matriarch village.

I will challenge every single person in US who still thinks their soldiers in Vietnam were ever heroes. They are ALL terrorist invaders to people like me/my family. They never should have been in Vietnam at all!

How many of you US military family folks have ever buried 9 family members killed by foreign invaders in a single week?

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · 4 days ago

This is only part of what #TerroristUSA did to our peoples!

Evil USA used us as a fucking war munitions lab. The exact same way Zionazis used Gaza as a testing lab.

WAKE THE FUCK UP. USA NEVER STOPPED TERRORISM WAR CRIMES!

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · 5 days ago

My big Auntie lived/worked in the tunnels for years, after quitting her nursing job & leaving our family for a decade. She worked mainly in the resistance army comms & also on their medical team. She was part of the organizational team that planned the #TetOffensive

North Vietnam & Viet Cong’s Tet Offensive in 1968 took South Vietnamese & #USATerrorists by surprise. Launched on Vietnam’s lunar new year holiday, it was one of the biggest military campaigns in the war.

Cu Chi Tunnels near Saigon was integral. The 121-kilometre-long network of subterranean tunnels, a larger network that cut across most of Vietnam, were Viet Cong’s lifeline.

Hidden under camouflaged booby traps, the tunnels provided our resistance fighters with supply/comms routes, living quarters & storage for food/weapons. Air and water were scarce, insects, scorpions, and rodents aplenty, it didn't deter them.

Recreated medical facility in the Cu Chi Tunnels in which doctors provided medical treatment to the Viet Cong soldiers wounded in combat.

Ben Duoc Tunnel in the Cu Chi Tunnels network served as the base for Viet Cong’s Regional Party Committee and Saigon-Gia Dinh Military Command.

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party replied · 4 days ago

So, excuse me if I don't feel much sympathy for folks in Western places who invade Global South to terrorize POC in our homelands & deployed for shorter than a decade, with visits home/back with family & able to receive care packages from home. Those of us who were under siege by foreign Western invaders never got to see/talk to some our family members for over a decade. Many of us had to bury many family & friends murdered by your terrorist invaders. Some of us weren't even able to bury all of our loved ones because their bodies were blown to smithereens by your government’s terrorist invaders.

Refuse to fight dirty illegal wars on foreign sovereign lands. You have a choice to not serve your terrorist governments. People you terrorize, don't forget.

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · 5 days ago

Cu Chi Tunnels near Saigon was integral. The 121-kilometre-long network of subterranean tunnels, a larger network that cut across most of Vietnam, were Viet Cong’s lifeline.

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · 5 days ago

#USInvaders were guided by the #DominoTheory - if Vietnam fell to communism, so would Laos, Cambodia & all of southeast Asia. The Gulf of #Tonkin changed things a lot.

According to the USA, Vietnamese patrol boats attacked the USS Maddox moored in the Gulf. Immediately, a resolution was passed to officially engage in war. President LB Johnson, the ‘heart of the war,’ sent 500,000 US troops to South Vietnam in 1965 to fight against North Vietnam in the north and the Viet Cong in the south. He called it Operation Rolling Thunder. The campaign would rain 864,000 tons of bombs on North Vietnam over the next three-and-a-half years, killing 52,000 North Vietnamese.

In the 2003 #documentary - #TheFogOfWar - the #USgovernment admitted that they had fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

‘Message from Khe Sanh.’ [Khe Sanh Combat Base Museum]
Black and white image of a person's back, wearing an army jacket with handwritten text. The text reads: "CAUTION: BEING A MARINE IN KHE SANH MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH." and "3rd BN. 26th" with the word "NEWSWEEK" in quotes below. The man is seen from the back, wearing a hat, with the jacket's collar up. — ‘Message from Khe Sanh.’ [Khe Sanh Combat Base Museum] Black and white image of a person's back, wearing an army jacket with handwritten text. The text reads: "CAUTION: BEING A MARINE IN KHE SANH MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH." and "3rd BN. 26th" with the word "NEWSWEEK" in quotes below. The man is seen from the back, wearing a hat, with the jacket's collar up.

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · 5 days ago

Xa Loi Pagoda in #Saigon was a hub of opposition to the Diem #USPuppet government. In 1963, Diem had his domestic terrorists attack the monastery. They arrested 1,400 monks, nuns & patriarch.

In 1963, faced with a coup, Diem tried to escape from the tunnels under one of his houses [now the Ho Chi Minh City Museum] to the perceived safety of Cha Tam Church in Cholon. Here he was captured and assassinated.

The #coup was staged by the #USA, the same USA who had brought him to power.

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Two-paneled image: left side depicts colorful prayer flags and a tiered pagoda, the right side a close-up of a golden Buddha statue with a smaller, bronze statue in front.

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · 5 days ago

The #UN failed our peoples in Vietnam - just like they've failed everywhere else because the UN protects capitalist imperial interests over #sovereignty of nations & it's never really had much enforcement teeth.

One of the outcomes of the DMZ was Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime in South Vietnam. Prime Minister of South Vietnam when the DMZ was drawn, in 1955 he proclaimed the country Republic of Vietnam and made himself its President. All with the help of the USA.

The latter’s intelligence had revealed 80 percent of Vietnamese were in favour of Ho Chi Minh. Which translated to a communist regime should General Elections take place. Pro-US, autocratic, Catholic, and anti-Buddhist, Diem ensured the UN-mandated elections never happened.

He also liked the good life. His Independence Palace in #Saigon came with a night-club and private helipad on the top floor, and bunkers deep in the bowels of the earth under the building.

Meanwhile, a stratum of Vietnamese society who were unhappy with Diem’s rule, and were pro-Ho Chi Minh, decided to go underground in 1961. Literally. Known as the #NationalLiberationFront, the guerilla force functioned from subterranean tunnels and jungle cover. They were determined to overthrow South Vietnam’s Diem government and unify Vietnam under #communism. The US called them #VietCong.

Wooden stilt house with thatched roof and elevated wooden staircase in a park setting.
Union House at DMZ, seat of the International Control Commission [ICC] comprising India, Canada, and Poland. The ICC was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the 1954 Geneva Accords. — Wooden stilt house with thatched roof and elevated wooden staircase in a park setting. Union House at DMZ, seat of the International Control Commission [ICC] comprising India, Canada, and Poland. The ICC was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the 1954 Geneva Accords.

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party replied · 5 days ago

The Pro-US, autocratic, Catholic, and anti-Buddhist, traitor Diem who stopped the UN-mandated elections was responsible for violent crackdowns on Buddhists & had military attack temples, arrest/beat/kill monks & raid/target supporters of Buddhism.

Our family was targeted multiple times. My patriarch Grandpa owned the largest incense factory in Saigon & donated a lot of supplies to temples. Our family's house/compound was beside factory. Diem’s domestic terrorists raided factory & our family's home multiple times during Diem’s evil regime rule. My Grandpa was beaten several times by his thugs.

Diem’s hatred & targeting of Buddhists led to monks protesting with self immolations in public. The world saw images of some of those desperate protests. Our peoples were trying to get the world to see & understand what was happening in Vietnam. The grave injustices & the atrocious treatment by an evil foreign puppet.

Diem was a capitalist colonial puppet/traitor to Vietnam. He was hated by almost everyone in Vietnam back then.

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Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · 5 days ago

He also liked the good life. His Independence Palace in #Saigon came with a night-club and private helipad on the top floor, and bunkers deep in the bowels of the earth under the building.

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party · 5 days ago

#Revolutionaries behind the 1908 Hanoi Poison Plot detained at the Hoa Lo Prison by the French colonists in 1941.

13 of them had their heads chopped off instantly and displayed in public. The French later used the photo for an #Indochina #propaganda postcard.

Whilst the second world war was raging across the world, in Vietnam the #VietMinh #Liberation Movement, led by famed revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, was taking birth. #HoChiMinh had one dream. An independent Vietnam free of foreign rule.

The first year after the war had Japan, and then Britain keen to get their hands on Vietnam. But they were soon replaced by Vietnam’s old colonial rulers: the French.

For nine long years, thereafter, from 1946 to 1954 the First Indochina War ripped across the country. Spilling blood, lives, and peace. On one side were the French. More adamant to stay. More aggressive in their rule. They were helped by the US who provided advisers, funding, and weapons from behind the scenes.
Anti-communist Vietnamese loyalists aided the French rulers’ legitimacy. On the other side was Ho Chi Minh and his revolutionaries.

Things eventually came to a head in 1954 with the Geneva Conference and creation of the 17th Parallel, a Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] on 17 degrees latitude north.

Black and white photograph showing a line of bound prisoners seated on a wooden bench inside a prison, a historical image. The prisoners are Vietnamese men. Each is restrained with wooden yokes around their necks and legs confined. The image is taken from a postcard, with text in French that reads "TONKIN - Crimes inculpés dans le complot des Empoisonneurs (Juillet 1908) à la barre de Justice, dans la prison", and a postage stamp.