Torture Allegations
SAIGON, Dec. 20 A French war correspondent has protested to General Leclerc, commander of the French forces, against the alleged torture and killing of a Tonkinese member of the insurgent Annamese forces.
The correspondent says he saw the Tonkinese nearly beaten to by a French lieutenant and by a civilian interpreter for his refusal to answer questions: .He was then shot by a French sergeant in the presence of French officers.
The correspondent says the execution of captured Annamese soldiers 'who refuse to talk is quite an ordinary feature of any French cleaning-up operation anywhere in Southern Indochina.
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Northern Advocate, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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