Vietnam war | EVACUATION 1954 | Behind the massive migration of Northern Catholics to South Vietnam скачать в хорошем качестве

Vietnam war | EVACUATION 1954 | Behind the massive migration of Northern Catholics to South Vietnam

Vietnam war | EVACUATION 1954 | Behind the massive migration of Northern Catholics to South Vietnam The 1954 exodus (English: Operation Passage to Freedom) was an exodus of nearly one million Vietnamese from North Vietnam (a military gathering area run by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) to South Vietnam (a military gathering area administered by the French Union) in the years 1954–1955. After the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the Geneva Agreement was signed between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and France. The accords resulted in the partition of Vietnam at the 17th parallel north, with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in control of the north and the French-backed State of Vietnam in the south. The agreement allowed a 300-day period of grace, ending on May 18, 1955, in which people could move freely between the two zones before the border was sealed. The partition was intended to be temporary, pending elections in 1956 to reunify the country under a national government. About 700,000 to one million people migrated from the North to the South (as of October 1955, 885,480 people migrated to the South, of which 676,348 (accounting for 76.3%) were Catholics, As of the beginning of the year in 1956, 927,000 people migrated to the South, including 794,000 Catholics, accounting for 85.6 percent. Meanwhile, there were about 45,000-85,000 civilians and 100,000 regular Viet Minh soldiers gathered in the North. The massive migration of people from the North to the South, mostly Catholics, can be explained by the following reasons...