The higher Vietnamese casualties (8000 dead and 15000 wounded) could not disguise that this was a very humiliating defeat for the French. ... Additionally, land reforms and redistribution regimes were successfully implemented to promote self-sufficiency from the south, revitalising a country facing impending famine to a country with the fastest growing economy in South-East Asia. ...

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On the other hand, a witness to torture/violence, can only stand at the edge of that "pain", that no-man's-land of unimaginable, unspeakable horror and terror, that their mind to some degree have not ever touched or assimilated before. ...

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