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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Alexis HONTANG

The Moroccans Who Fought For France And Settled In Vietnam

Le Tuan Binh, the son of a Moroccan man who served in the French army, is nicknamed 'the foreigner' in the Vietnamese village where he lives (Credit: AFP)

Le Tuan Binh keeps his Moroccan soldier father's tombstone at his village home north of Hanoi, a treasured reminder of a man whose community in Vietnam has been largely forgotten.

Mzid Ben Ali, or "Mohammed" as Binh calls him, was one of tens of thousands of North Africans who served in the French army as it battled to maintain its colonial rule of Indochina.

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