Femmes et guerres

Cette rubri­que ras­sem­ble des res­sour­ces vidéo­gra­phi­ques (témoi­gna­ges oraux, repor­ta­ges courts, actua­li­tés fil­mées...) sur les femmes et les guer­res

Mục này tập hợp các đọan phim tư liệu (lời chứng nhân, phóng sự ngắn, phim thời sự...) về phụ nữ và chiến tranh

Mémoires de Femmes

Guerre d’Algérie : Mémoires de femmes par Béatrice Fainzang avec A.H.

Il y a 50 ans, le cessez le feu scel­lait l’indé­pen­dance de l’Algérie. Cinq femmes de Gironde témoi­gnent.

Le 19 mars 1962, les Accords d’Evian sont conclus met­tant fin à huit lon­gues années de guerre. Des deux côtés de la Méditerranée la guerre d’Algérie a fait des mil­liers de vic­ti­mes.

Quand on parle de guerre, on pense aux hommes qui l’ont faite, aux com­bat­tants. Mais on oublie les femmes et les enfants, pour­tant vic­ti­mes indi­rec­tes.

Aujourd’hui, la parole leur revient. Elles qui ont vécu le quo­ti­dien de cette guerre, long­temps restée taboue. Sadia, Khedaoudj, Dominique, Arlette et Zohra ont toutes les cinq vécu cette guerre en France ou en Algérie. Chacune se sou­vient d’un moment fort qui a marqué leur vie et qui révèle la com­plexité de cette guerre.

Cette page dédiée aux mémoi­res de la guerre d’Algérie est un recueil de témoi­gna­ges, fruit d’entre­tiens de longue durée réa­li­sés par une étudiante en jour­na­lisme à l’IJBA dans le cadre de la semaine de la presse orga­ni­sée par France 3 Aquitaine. Ces vidéos cons­ti­tuent un ter­reau de départ pour tous ceux que le sujet inté­resse et pour les jeunes géné­ra­tions en quête d’iden­tité. Une guerre dou­lou­reuse encore aujourd’hui dif­fi­cile à raconter, même 50 ans après...

http://aqui­taine.fran­ce3.fr/info/me...

Vietnam war collection

- A Saigon et à Bien Hoa, le Vietnam en guerre

Les Actualités Françaises - 28/07/1965 - 01min06s. Bombardements au Nord Vietnam et mobi­li­sa­tion géné­rale au Sud. Vidéo INA : http://www.ina.fr/his­toire-et-confl...

- Au Vietnam, la guerre s’est brus­que­ment ins­tal­lée dans les villes du Sud

Les Actualités Françaises - 06/02/1968 - 03min21s. [des­crip­tion INA] Vie au nord Vietnam et dans les régions du sud sous controle FNL ; offen­sive du Têt - Soldats viet­congs assis dans une jonque, cas­ques camou­flés sous des bran­cha­ges, fusils en mains - 2 plans de Nord-viet­na­miens tra­vaillant dans les champs, camou­flés sous de gran­des palmes accro­chées sur leur dos - Colonne de femmes viet­na­mien­nes avan­çant, une pioche sur l’épaule - Colonne de femme de la milice tra­ver­sant une rivière, de l’eau jusqu’aux genoux - Plusieurs plans d’une salle de classe où une ins­ti­tu­trice donne un cours à de jeunes enfants viet­na­miens à la lueur de peti­tes lampes à huile, trou d’obus dans l’un des pupi­tres - Lourds bom­bar­diers amé­ri­cains lar­guant des cha­pe­lets de bombes - VA d’explo­sions dans la brousse - Plusieurs plans de viet­congs, hommes et femmes, cou­rant dans la brousse, munis de paniers, pio­ches et fusils - Grosses fumées d’explo­sions - Femmes nord viet­na­mien­nes rebou­chant un cra­tère de bombe - Bombardier en vol - 2 plans d’explo­sions lors du bom­bar­de­ment d’un pont - Femmes et enfants trans­por­tant leurs baga­ges, avan­çant sur une route à tra­vers champs - Plusieurs plans de nord viet­na­miens, enfants et vieillards, pré­pa­rant des bam­bous taillés et les plan­tant dans un ruis­seau et autour d’un vil­lage pour leur défense... Vidéo INA : http://www.ina.fr/his­toire-et-confl...

- Boat People : Rescue mis­sion on South China Sea

Documentary about Vietnamese Boat People fleeing VN after the fall of Sai Gon. They encoun­ter pira­tes and other hard­ship at sea. 50 % (about 1 Million) of them died and never made it to shore : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=agmz...

- Encore le Vietnam

Panorama - 11/02/1966 - 09min28s. Malgré le cessez le feu du Têt, la base de Da Nang n’a pas cessé ses opé­ra­tions et la zone d’opé­ra­tion viet­cong a été tou­chée par le napalm et les bom­bar­de­ments, les sol­dats amé­ri­cains font des pri­son­niers et les évacuent pour inter­ro­ga­toire. Vidéo INA : http://www.ina.fr/his­toire-et-confl...

- Four Hours In My Lai

Documentaire bri­tan­ni­que réa­lisé en 1989 sur le mas­sa­cre de My Lai, 1968.

1/7 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=FYzb...

2/7 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=kCZl...

3/7 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=xHvz...

4/7 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=iA4M...

5/7 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=1Ap9...

6/7 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=6Cr7...

7/7 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=jvrz...

- From War to Peace and Beyond

This short docu­men­tary exa­mi­nes Le Ly Hayslip’s pain­ful but ulti­ma­tely trium­phant jour­ney from a tragic child­hood in war-torn Vietnam to her new life as an American citi­zen and huma­ni­ta­rian. Produced by Palomar College Television.

http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=CC5H...

- Interview with Do Thi Bay, 1981

Do Thi Bay des­cri­bes her life as the daugh­ter of a poor pea­sant family and how, because they had no money and were exploi­ted, she began to follow the revo­lu­tion as a young girl. Do Thi Bay recalls her time as a cou­rier for the Viet Minh in 1946 car­rying let­ters and docu­ments across the vil­la­ges. Do Thi Bay des­cri­bes the time when French African troops broke into her house to search for incri­mi­na­ting mate­rials, and while the troops did not find any­thing they beat her before lea­ving.

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- Interview with Duong Thi My Trung, 1981

Former pros­ti­tute Duong Thi My Trung dis­cus­ses how she went to Saigon from the vil­lage of Soc Trang and began to earn money by smug­gling tax-free items such as American goods. Unfortunately res­tric­tions on the goods began to tigh­ten and as a result, Duong Thi My Trung lost her money. Finding work as a cashier, she explains how her mana­ger tri­cked her into pros­ti­tu­tion.

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- Interview with Madame Duong Van Khang, 1981

Madame Duong Van Khang recalls being allo­wed to par­ti­ci­pate on an attack of the French mili­tary. Her job consis­ted of hel­ping move sol­diers safely to a place where they would be able to attack the enemy and then safely guide them home. Madame Duong Van Khang also des­cri­bes gathe­ring intel­li­gence on the French and pas­sing the infor­ma­tion along to the appro­priate people. She explains the dif­fe­rent dis­gui­ses she used in order to com­plete her tasks. Additionally, Madame Duong Van Khang talks about the expe­rien­ces of having to grow hemp for the Japanese ins­tead of rice, and the suf­fe­ring people expe­rien­ced due to not having the land avai­la­ble to grow food.

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- Interview with H. Bot Adrong, 1981

H. Bot Adrong des­cri­bes her vil­lage’s pre­pa­ra­tion for, and par­ti­ci­pa­tion in, the Battle of Ban Me Thuot in 1975.

First of all, during January and February when the pre­pa­ra­tions for the attack on Ban Me Thuot were taking place, I went to the fields to meet with the infra­struc­tu­res in order to find out about the situa­tion concer­ning the enemy and to pre­pare the morale of the popu­la­tion. During the day I was in the fields, but during the night I ente­red the vil­la­ges. At one point, when the enemy was still sta­tio­ning their troops on the Chim Blim Hill, the enemy did lob mor­tars into the vil­lage...

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- Interview with Hoang Thi Dan, 1981

Villager Hoang Thi Dan recalls hea­ring bombs being drop­ped from planes during the Christmas Bombings and the fear she felt while hiding in a nearby bomb shel­ter. Her house was des­troyed and one of her chil­dren was badly woun­ded, later dying at a nearby medi­cal sta­tion. She des­cri­bes burying her son and not being able to go home again.

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- Interview with Hoang Thi Thu, 1981

Villager Hoang Thi Thu talks about her hus­band going south to fight and sen­ding let­ters to him that recei­ved no res­ponse. She recalls the worry she felt for him and rela­tes her misery. In 1971 she heard that her hus­band had been killed in action. She des­cri­bes her pride in him but misses him pro­fu­sely.

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- Interview with Jane Barton, 1981

Jane Barton went to Vietnam with the American Friends’ Service Committee to work in a reha­bi­li­ta­tion clinic and to observe the treat­ment of pri­so­ners in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam. She des­cri­bes evi­dence of tor­ture and the com­pli­city of the American govern­ment. She des­cri­bes the dama­ges inflic­ted on Vietnamese civi­lians by relo­ca­tion pro­grams and by land­mi­nes. Finally, she dis­cus­ses the nega­tive atti­tu­des of the Vietnamese in her area towards the govern­ment of South Vietnam and the American pre­sence.

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- Interview with Le Thi Ma, 1981

Le Thi Ma was a young girl during the Diem regime. She reports harsh treat­ment, forced labor, and lear­ning little at school other than how to salute the flag and sing the natio­nal anthem. She says she was pre­sent for the “Cedar Falls” search-and-des­troy ope­ra­tions by the Americans, during which the inha­bi­tants of Cu Chi dis­mant­led unex­plo­ded American bombs and recom­bi­ned the parts to create land­mi­nes, which they then used against American tanks and trucks. She recounts atta­cking Americans her­self from a fox­hole by deto­na­ting land­mi­nes along high­ways.

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- Interview with Le Thi Ton, 1981

Le Thi Ton was a Vietnamese vil­la­ger. She tes­ti­fies about a brutal, see­min­gly casual US assault on her hamlet on January 31, 1967 in which all ten mem­bers of her family were killed.

On January 31st they came at around 12:00, exactly at 12:00. My family was on the outer part of the hamlet. And those other people were living in the middle sec­tion of the hamlet. We were only about a paddy field in dis­tance from each other.

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- Interview with Mrs. Ngo Ba Thanh, 1981

Ngo Ba Thanh was a consul­tant in inter­na­tio­nal com­pa­ra­tive law who spent years in jail in South Vietnam for her pro-Viet Cong views. She des­cri­bes going to mee­tings at the British Ambassador’s resi­dence as pre­si­dent of the International Women Association. The only Vietnamese woman atten­ding these diplo­ma­tic din­ners, she talks of diplo­mats, digni­ta­ries and mili­tary offi­cials being impres­sed by her for­thright views on poli­tics and the war. Nevertheless her outs­po­ken views, espe­cially those war­ning General William Westmoreland that the US would not suc­ceed in Vietnam, resul­ted in her deten­tion for over 2 years.

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- Interview with Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, 1982

As the sister-in-law of President Diem, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu was consi­de­red the first lady of South Vietnam in the late 1950s through the early 1960s. Here she argues that the Diem govern­ment was the only legi­ti­mate govern­ment in South Vietnam, that they were under­mi­ned by the United States and that the United States, the­re­fore, paid a price. She dis­cus­ses the Buddhist Crisis of 1963 and the results of the Paris Peace Accords. She reflects on Ngo Dinh Nhu and President Diem’s cha­rac­ters and her own repu­ta­tion as the “Dragon Lady” of Vietnam. Finally, she des­cri­bes the diplo­ma­tic efforts of Ngo Dinh Nhu towards North Vietnam and the arro­gance of the United States in inter­ve­ning.

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- Interview with Mrs. Nguyen Cong Minh

Mrs. Nguyen Cong Minh, a refu­gee from Hue, talks about the Communists laun­ching the 1968 battle for Hue during the New Year cele­bra­tions in the city. She remem­bers that the sound of gun­fire was being inters­per­sed with the sounds of fire­cra­ckers so no one at the time rea­li­zed that the Communists were over­run­ning the city. Nguyen Cong Minh remem­bers her father being taken away to a ree­du­ca­tion camp and never retur­ning, and her long search to find his remains in the mass graves of ree­du­ca­tion camp pri­so­ners.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Binh, 1981

Madame Nguyen Thi Binh was the Foreign Minister of the National Liberation Front, and a repre­sen­ta­tive at the Paris peace talks. At the time of the inter­view, she was the Minister of Education of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and she later served for ten years as Vice President of the coun­try. In the inter­view she des­cri­bes life in colo­nial Saigon, joi­ning the Viet Minh, and the three years spent in a French prison. Mme. Binh then des­cri­bes her poli­ti­cal invol­ve­ment in the Provisional Revolutionary Government and the peace nego­tia­tions in Paris.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Cao, 1981

Nguyen Thi Cao lived in the Vietnamese vil­lage of Cam Ne, near the city of Da Nang. She des­cri­bes the American des­truc­tion of that vil­lage in August 1965, and the chaos as the Americans chased and killed many of the vil­la­gers, inclu­ding her daugh­ter.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Chiem, 1981

Nguyen Thi Chiem was a South Vietnamese vil­la­ger whose hus­band and chil­dren were killed at various points during the Vietnam War. She des­cri­bes the many hard­ships people faced under the rule of Ngo Dinh Diem, and the deaths of her family mem­bers “by American bombs and shells.” She notes that it was because of Diem’s repres­sive poli­cies that vil­la­gers sup­por­ted the revo­lu­tion.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Dinh, 1981

Nguyen Thi Dinh was a Deputy Supreme Commander of the National Liberation Front. Following the war, Madame Dinh served on the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party and became the first female Major General of the Vietnam People’s Army. She des­cri­bes in detail her acti­vi­ties against the French, and her sub­se­quent arrest and tor­ture. She then details the repres­sions suf­fe­red under Ngo Dinh Diem, the Tet Offensive, the Phoenix Program, and the fall of Saigon.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Duc, 1981

Nguyen Thi Duc sur­vi­ved the “Christmas Bombing” of Hanoi in 1972. She des­cri­bes the shock of the event and the shel­ter col­lap­sing on her. When she reco­ve­red, Ms. Duc was angui­shed to find out that seve­ral family mem­bers had been killed in the attack.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Hoa, 1981

Nguyen Thi Hoa was a gue­rilla figh­ter for the National Liberation front as a tee­na­ger in the 1960s. She des­cri­bes how she pre­pa­red the for the NLF inva­sion of Hue during the Tet Offensive. Ms. Hoa then details her par­ti­ci­pa­tion in and the gene­ral atmos­phere of the fero­cious battle of Hue.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Mai, 1981

Nguyen Thi Mai was the head of the School for New Women in Saigon. She des­cri­bes how the pre­sence of American troops in Saigon cor­rup­ted the youth and led to many young women beco­ming pros­ti­tu­tes. She recounts the story of one girl who was unable to stop her pros­ti­tu­tion after the war, but then atten­ded Ms. Mai’s school and is now back in her native vil­lage.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Ngo, 1981

Nguyen Thi Ngo des­cri­bes poli­ti­cal and eco­no­mic repres­sion under the Ngo Dinh Diem regime. She recalls in the women of her vil­lage hel­ping Viet Cong sol­diers with food and first aid during the Battle of Ap Bac.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Nguyet Anh, 1981

Nguyen Thi Nguyet Anh worked for the National Liberation Front in Da Nang. She recalls her arrest 1963 and again in 1966, both of which resul­ted in impri­son­ment and nightly tor­ture under the Ngo Dinh Diem regime. She des­cri­bes the tor­ture tac­tics and recalls American mili­tary offi­cers pre­sent. Finally, she recounts the libe­ra­tion of Da Nang and the cele­bra­tions that fol­lo­wed.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Sinh, 1981

Nguyen Thi Sinh des­cri­bes the women of her vil­lage pro­tes­ting against the forced labor of their hus­bands in Ngo Dinh Diem’s agro­ville or “Strategic Hamlet” pro­gram. She recalls being arres­ted and beaten as a result of the pro­test. Finally, she des­cri­bes her atti­tude toward the Diem regime and the National Liberation Front.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Te, 1981

Nguyen Thi Te des­cri­bes the bur­ning of her vil­lage by American sol­diers. She recalls being beaten and raped by Americans along with other people from her vil­lage.

On August 2, 1965 the Americans dis­pat­ched a lot of troops into this area. They came in, in amphi­bious tanks and burnt down the houses. They forced the vil­lage inha­bi­tants to get out of the houses so that they could burn them down. When the Americans came to my house with the inter­pre­ters they pushed us out of the house and refu­sed to let us take any belon­ging with us at all. They did not allow us to take any­thing out of the house at all. They burnt eve­ry­thing...

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Thiep, 1981

Nguyen Thi Thiep recounts American sol­diers bur­ning the vil­lage of Cam Ne, inclu­ding her house, 1965. She des­cri­bes being filmed by a film crew and later being forced to leave her home and live in a ree­du­ca­tion camp.

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- Interview with Nguyen Thi Trong, 1981

Nguyen Thi Trong recounts the forced relo­ca­tion of her vil­lage, Thanh-tuyen, by American troops in 1966. She des­cri­bes aban­do­ning all of her belon­gings and her home to endure life in the relo­ca­tion camp where many of her chil­dren died. She recalls American mili­tary pro­mi­ses of sup­port for relo­ca­ted Vietnamese that were not always hono­red.

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- Interview with Pham Thi Xuan Que, 1981

Dr. Pham Thi Xuan Que lived in a vil­lage in South Vietnam under the lea­der­ship of Ngo Dinh Diem. She des­cri­bes many of the repres­sive tac­tics used by Diem’s secret police, inclu­ding various forms of tor­ture. Dr. Que tells of how the National Liberation Front enjoyed wides­pread sup­port within Hue, and of the events sur­roun­ding the NLF’s cap­ture and sub­se­quent eva­cua­tion of Hue during the Tet Offensive.

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- Interview with Phung Thi Tiem, 1981

Phung Thi Tiem was a fac­tory worker who sur­vi­ved the “Christmas Bombing” of Hanoi in 1972. She des­cri­bes the bombs explo­ding just as she and her family ente­red the shel­ter and kno­cking her uncons­cious. Ms. Tiem then tells of lea­ving the shel­ter with her family to aid in the rescue efforts. Because houses had col­lap­sed atop the bomb shel­ters there were many people trap­ped. She and others worked for “5 or 6” days just trying to get to those people. She recalls her most pain­ful memory of the event : the sight of an entire family of seven dead among the ruins of their flat­te­ned house.

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- Interview with Thuong Thi Mai, 1981

Thuong Thi Mai, a Vietnamese vil­la­ger from Thuy Bo, des­cri­bes American sol­diers shoo­ting her family and bur­ning and des­troying her vil­lage.

On the 31st, the Americans came. When they came, we were in the house. They ente­red the house and pushed us back­ward. When we could not go back any fur­ther they shot my father, my mother, my sister in law and a niece. They killed three per­sons in the cour­tyard and shot my mother in the house.

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- Interview with Thu Van, 1981

Thu Van went to North Vietnam to study film­ma­king after the Geneva Agreements. She des­cri­bes fil­ming during the Vietnam war, com­ments on the vio­lence, and dis­cus­ses docu­men­ting the final days of the war as the Americans pulled out and the South Vietnamese fled. Finally, she recalls her reu­ni­fi­ca­tion with her family after a 20-year sepa­ra­tion.

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- Interview with Tran Thi Giai, 1981

Tran Thi Giai des­cri­bes American troops roun­ding up people in her vil­lage to send them to relo­ca­tion camps.

When they roun­ded us up they told us that if we went to the relo­ca­tion camps they would feed us ade­qua­tely...

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- Interview with Tran Thi My, 1981

Tran Thi May dis­cus­ses the role of Vietnam’s intel­lec­tual class in resis­ting Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime. She recalls being chased by the secret police, esca­ping to Cu Chi, and tra­ve­ling to and from Saigon in dis­guise. She also des­cri­bes sur­vi­ving the devas­ta­tion of Cu Chi during Operation Cedar Falls.

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- Interview with Tran Thi Truyen, 1981

Tran Thi Truyen des­cri­bes her trek down the Ho Chi Minh trail in 1971 to build a field hos­pi­tal. At 16 years old, she and other women built and staf­fed the hos­pi­tal for woun­ded sol­diers. She recounts the hor­rors she wit­nes­sed during her work.

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- Interview with Tran Thi Tuyet, 1981

Former NLF sol­dier Tran Thi Tuyet talks about the agro­vil­les and her daily life. She recalls that life was rela­ti­vely quiet until the agro­vil­les were built under Ngo Dinh Diem as part of the Rural Community Development Program to for­ci­bly relo­cate sec­tions of the popu­la­tion. She talks about vil­la­ges being des­troyed so an agro­ville could be cons­truc­ted. The popu­la­tion suf­fe­red and life became hard. The civi­lians began to revolt and deman­ded that their land be retur­ned to them. In the begin­ning the upri­sing was popu­lar and many people would join in order for life to return to normal. Tran Thi Tuyet also recalls that when the agro­vil­les were dis­mant­led in 1960 a second upri­sing occur­red and people rushed back to gain control of their former homes. Tran Thi Tuyet dis­cus­ses why she joined the NLF, as it was the only way not to remain in the agro­vil­les fore­ver.

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- Journey to Freedom

A true story of a family in search of free­dom. They strug­gled, sur­vi­ved and ulti­ma­tely live the American Dream. By Lan Dalat 2009.

http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=Ri1J...

- Những anh hùng của đội quân tóc dài

Documentaire viet­na­mien de Quoc Trang & Hong Cham sur les héroï­nes de l’Armée aux che­veux longs de « la géné­rale » Nguyen Thi Dinh avec les témoi­gna­ges de Ta Thi Kieu (Muoi Ly), Nguyen Thi E, Le Thi Be, Le Thi Hong (Minh Thang), Nguyen Thi Minh Hien (Hong Chau)... Sur DVTV : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=uXQZ...

- Phan Thi Kim Phuc Vietnam Napalm

Phan Thị Kim Phúc (born 1963) is a Vietnamese-Canadian who is the sub­ject of a famous photo from the Vietnam War. The photo shows her at about age nine run­ning naked on the street after being seve­rely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack. The photo was taken by AP pho­to­gra­pher Nick Út.

ATTENTION. Le contenu de cette vidéo est sus­cep­ti­ble d’offen­ser cer­tains uti­li­sa­teurs. http://www.dai­ly­mo­tion.com/video/x7...

- Spécial Vietnam : signa­ture des Accords, Mme Binh

Magazine 52 - 25/01/1973 - 03min43s. Interview de la repré­sen­tante du GRP (gou­ver­ne­ment révo­lu­tion­naire pro­vi­soire, Vietcong) au Sud Vietnam, Mme Nguyen Thi Binh après la signa­ture du cessez le feu et des accords de paix avec les Etats Unis et le gou­ver­ne­ment Thieu à Paris. - ques­tion y a t il 3 Vietnam désor­mais ? Mme Binh « vous savez que le Vietnam est un depuis des siè­cles et cette réa­lité reste pour tou­jours mais nous avons une situa­tion par­ti­cu­lière qui fait que, pour le moment, le Sud Vietnam n’est pas encore réu­ni­fié au Nord et qu’au Sud Vietnam il y a deux admi­nis­tra­tions, c’est pour­quoi l’accord doit reflé­ter cette situa­tion réelle » - ques­tion on annonce que le GRP va avoir une capi­tale, c’est déjà une démar­ca­tion impor­tante « vous savez que nous avons tou­jours une zone libé­rée dans laquelle notre gou­ver­ne­ment exerce son rôle, main­te­nant je crois que la ques­tion est de rendre public le lieu où se trouve notre gou­ver­ne­ment et nous le ferons une fois le cessez le feu décrété... vous savez que la situa­tion actuelle est une situa­tion pro­vi­soire, tem­po­raire, nous nous devons nous ache­mi­ner vers des élections libres et démo­cra­ti­ques au Sud Vietnam pour déter­mi­ner le régime du Sud Vietnam et à ce moment là, nous aurons un seul gou­ver­ne­ment » - ques­tion com­ment conce­vez vous les élections « vous savez, dans l’accord on a parlé des élections géné­ra­les mais nous n’avons pas encore pré­cisé qu’est ce qu’on va élire, cette ques­tion sera dis­cu­tée et réglée entre les deux par­ties du Sud Vietnam mais notre posi­tion est que pour vrai­ment réa­li­ser le droit pour la popu­la­tion du Sud Vietnam à l’auto­dé­ter­mi­na­tion, il faudra élire une Assemblée cons­ti­tuante et de là, déter­mi­ner si on doit élire un pré­si­dent...en ce moment on se bat encore parce que l’accord n’est pas encore signé et le cessez le feu n’est pas encore exé­cuté, le grand espoir je pense que l’accord de paix que nous allons signer répond aux aspi­ra­tions pro­fon­des de notre peuple et aussi aux espoirs du GRP, pour nous le cessez le feu c’est une chose très impor­tante mais dans l’accord il n’y a pas seu­le­ment le cessez le feu, il y a autre chose et si on appli­que stric­te­ment les clau­ses de l’accord je pense que nous pour­rions avoir une paix véri­ta­ble et dura­ble ». Video INA : http://www.ina.fr/his­toire-et-confl...

- Tiana Alexandra Revisits the My Lai Massacre

In this excerpt from the docu­men­tary From Hollywood to Hanoi, Tiana Alexandra talks with two women who sur­vi­ved the My Lai Massacre - giving a human face and voice to a dread­ful tra­gedy that is too often obs­cu­red by the debate over US mili­tary pro­to­col. Chaîne de TianaWorldDotCom : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=-4Cr...

- Vietnam : Madame Nhu

Cinq colon­nes à la une - 06/09/1963 - 26min10s. Le 11 juin 1963, le monde s’émeut du sacri­fice des bonzes au Vietnam en pro­tes­ta­tion contre le régime du pré­si­dent Diem. A Saïgon, inter­view exclu­sif par François Chalais de Madame Nhu, épouse du chef de la police secrète du Vietnam, belle soeur du pré­si­dent Diem et ins­pi­ra­trice du régime.Elle s’exprime en fran­çais d’une façon vigou­reuse. Vidéo INA [extrait] : http://www.ina.fr/poli­ti­que/gou­vern...

- Vietnamese women during the Vietnam war

[com­men­taire en fran­çais] A little research work mil­ky0­candy did with his friend Hai Vu. The thesis was : What were the role of viet­na­mese women during the war against America and is it really reco­gni­sed, offi­cially and mate­rially, by the state ? Chaîne de mil­ky0­candy : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=AFMB...

- Vớt Người Biển Đông

Uỷ Ban Báo Nguy Giúp Người Vượt Biển (Boat People S.O.S. Committee) phát hành năm 1985. Nhóm thực hiện : Tiến Sĩ Nguyễn Hữu Xương, Nhà Văn Phan Lạc Tiếp, Nhà Văn Nhật Tiến, Ký Giả Dương Phục, Ký Giả Vũ Thanh Thủy, Ông James Banerian, Ông Huỳnh Văn Hay cùng sự cộng tác : Khánh Ly, Ban Thùy Dương, TG Recording Studio, SoundTech Recording Studio. Trình Bày : Nhà Văn Lê Tất Điều.

Part 1 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=Xvdt...

Part 2 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=0evC...

Part 3 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=bpPV...

Part 4 : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=iuar...

Women and war : other conflicts

- Viol, arme de guerre

Les crimes de guerre en ex Yougoslavie

Chaque his­toire éclaire un aspect spé­ci­fi­que du drame. Esmija raconte com­ment en 1992, à Foca, elle a été séques­trée et violée devant ses enfants : « J’avais honte de regar­der mon fils dans les yeux », dit-elle. Dika et Nuska retour­nent au tris­te­ment célè­bre camp d’Omarska. Torture, exé­cu­tions, viols : Omaska était un véri­ta­ble camp d’exter­mi­na­tion. Les deux amies, qui ont été séques­trées ensem­ble, racontent les sévi­ces, les humi­lia­tions dont elles ont été vic­ti­mes. Elles racontent aussi les vio­len­ces sexuel­les for­cées entre des hommes, par­fois entre un père et un fils. Un homme aussi témoi­gne. Si Edo parle, c’est que sa femme ne peut plus le faire. D’ori­gine alle­mande, elle s’est sui­ci­dée après avoir été violée. Murée dans le silence, « elle n’a pas pu sup­por­ter la vie après ». À tra­vers son témoi­gnage, on com­prend que cette poli­ti­que visait aussi les cou­ples mixtes. Enfin, il y a Jasna, dont les deux enfants ont été tués et jetés dans un char­nier : « Je pou­vais tout ima­gi­ner : les tue­ries, les viols, qu’ils ont tué mon mari... Mais qu’ils tuent des enfants, cela n’a pas pu ren­trer dans ma cons­cience. » Jasna veut témoi­gner car toutes les autres femmes qui ont été déte­nues avec elles sont mortes.

Face à ces témoi­gna­ges venus de l’ex Yougoslavie : les visa­ges impas­si­bles et les décla­ra­tions sans remords des bour­reaux inculpés devant le Tribunal pénal inter­na­tio­nal de La Haye. Les accu­sés com­pa­rais­sent pour viols sys­té­ma­ti­ques, viols sur enfants de 12 ans, géno­cide... Au-delà des his­toi­res per­son­nel­les, ce film émouvant et dur lève le voile sur les res­sorts poli­ti­ques de ces viols uti­li­sés comme arme de guerre.

A voir en strea­ming sur : http://www.vodeo.tv/docu­men­taire/vi...

- Women’s war - a docu­men­tary about sexual vio­lence in conflicts

”We can talk, talk and talk – but nobody lis­tens to us”. The words are utte­red by a Congolese woman in the short docu­men­tary Women’s war by Marika Griehsel. Approximately 20 000 women were raped during the war in Bosnia and Hercegovina in the early 1990s, in the DR Congo it is esti­ma­ted that bet­ween 200 000 and 500 000 women and chil­dren have been raped during the 14 years long war. Women’s war shows an exchange ini­tia­ted by the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation bet­ween women human rights acti­vists from the Balkans and the DR Congo in 2009. Chaîne de Kvinna till Kvinna : http://vimeo.com/8908755

Women and War collection [Euronews]

Face à la guerre, face à la vio­lence, face à la misère, face à la dis­cri­mi­na­tion, face à l’igno­rance ou à la mala­die. Women and War vous pro­pose de décou­vrir chaque mois le combat dif­fi­cile de femmes enga­gées à tra­vers le monde.

- Irak : sur­vi­vre dans un monde d’hommes

- Hanaa Edwar : “Il faut insuf­fler de l’espoir au peuple ira­kien”

- Ces Irakiennes qui lut­tent pour retrou­ver leurs droits

- Le viol comme arme de guerre : le combat d’une sur­vi­vante

- Noella : lutter pour rendre jus­tice aux femmes

- Caddy : une voix pour les sans voix

- République Démoratique du Congo : les guer­riè­res de la paix

- En Afghanistan, le combat tenace de Sima Samar pour les droits des femmes

- Soigner et redon­ner espoir

- Frozan, jour­na­liste à l‘épreuve des vio­len­ces quo­ti­dien­nes

- Combattantes de l’espoir en Afghanistan

- Mina : le prix de la guerre

- Durga : patrouiller pour la paix

- Laxmi : sur le chemin de la réconci­lia­tion

- Reconstruire des vies bri­sées par le conflit au Népal

- Sonia Guajajara : “Les peu­ples indi­gè­nes sont sans cesse expul­sés de leurs terres”

- Sheyla Juruna : “Le fleuve Xingu est notre maison. S’il meurt, notre culture et notre peuple mour­ront avec lui”

- Antõnia Melo : “Notre combat doit servir les géné­ra­tions futu­res”

- Le combat de trois Brésiliennes pour la défense des peu­ples indi­gè­nes d’Amazonie

Women facing / fleeing war collection

- Women facing war : Amanda

Amanda, detai­ned for her role in armed conflict, talks of her daily life. Chaîne de icrc­films : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=1eY9...

- Women facing war : Dzidza

Dzidza is sear­ching for her hus­band and sons, still mis­sing long after the war is over. Chaîne de icrc­films : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=g5Io...

- Women facing war : Mah-Bibi

Mah-Bibi at ten years old is des­ti­tute and begs for food to sup­port her­self and her youn­ger bro­thers. Chaîne de icrc­films : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=xdrC...

- Women facing war : Nasrin

Nasrin, a widow and mother, explains how medi­cal care has helped her regain mobi­lity after a mine acci­dent. Chaîne de icrc­films : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=N6T0...

- Women facing war : Olja

Olja des­cri­bes her fee­lings on lear­ning finally of her mis­sing hus­band’s death. Chaîne de icrc­films : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=4bXM...

- Women facing war : Qualam

Qualam, forced from her home by drought and conflict, des­cri­bes what it is like to be dis­pla­ced. Chaîne de icrc­films : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=exdY...

- Women facing war : Sarah

Sarah, a sur­vi­vor of sexual vio­lence, recounts her story. Chaîne de icrc­films : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=eoyj...

- Women facing war : Shihnaz

Shihnaz lives with the daily fear of threats to her per­so­nal safety. Chaîne de icrc­films : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=ZPad...

- Women facing war : Zakiya

Zakiya sup­ports her­self and her seven chil­dren in the absence of her detai­ned hus­band. Chaîne de icrc­films : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=eE2t...

- Women fleeing war : Fatuma’s story

Armed conflict dis­pla­ces people from their homes and live­li­hoods. Women often have to cope with the loss of close rela­ti­ves and find new way to sup­port them­sel­ves and their fami­lies. The ICRC works to unders­tand the spe­ci­fic needs of women dis­pla­ced by war, in order to better help them. This film tells the story of five women dis­pla­ced by conflict in Colombia, Liberia and Sudan. Although the contexts are dif­fe­rent, the chal­len­ges these women face bear stri­king simi­la­ri­ties. Chaîne de icrc­films : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=_kq5...

Women for women collection

- Women and War : Bosnia & Herzegovina

Impact of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina on women and the work of Women for Women International there. Changing the world one woman at a time. Chaîne de WomenforWomenIntl : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=HA9q...

- Women in Afghanistan:Field Report from Women for Women Int’l

Women for Women International pro­vi­des Afghan women job skills trai­ning and the oppor­tu­nity to rebuild their lives as the coun­try reco­vers from war and the Taliban. More than $2 mil­lion has also been loaned to women in our micro­cre­dit pro­gram in Afghanistan. Find out how Women for Women’s pro­grams are impro­ving the lives of Afghan women, hel­ping them build sus­tai­na­ble futu­res for their fami­lies and com­mu­ni­ties. Chaîne de WomenforWomenIntl : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=LRi5...

- Women in Congo - Weapons of War as seen on 60 Minutes

As seen on 60 Minutes : Women for Women International reports from DR Congo in concert with Anderson Cooper’s piece for 60 Minutes, « War Against Women » fea­tu­ring Women for Women International’s pro­gram in the DR Congo. Chaîne de WomenforWomenIntl : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=VeMk...

- Women in Kosovo - Rebuilding Their Future

As Kosovo decla­res its inde­pen­dence, one Kosovar women shares her story of triumph as she rebuilds her and her fami­lies life after they were forced to leave their home during the conflict with Serbia. Through Women for Women International, she has lear­ned agri­cultu­ral skills, has earned enough to sup­port her family, and regai­ned inde­pen­dence for her­self and other women like her. Learn how you can help more women regain their dignity and hope after war. Chaîne de WomenforWomenIntl : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=FSww...

- Women in Sudan : Field Report from Women for Women Int’l

Zainab Salbi visits Women for Women International’s pro­gram in Southern Sudan. She shares firs­thand the state of women in Sudan and meets with our new pro­gram par­ti­ci­pants. Zainab com­mits to find each woman she meets with a spon­sor for her edu­ca­tion and trai­ning in the Women for Women International pro­gram. Chaîne de WomenforWomenIntl : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=SCBi...

Women, War & Peace television series

Women, War & Peace pre­mie­red on your local PBS sta­tion Tuesday nights from Oct. 11 to Nov. 8, 2011.

Women, War & Peace is a bold new five-part PBS tele­vi­sion series chal­len­ging the conven­tio­nal wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. The vast majo­rity of today’s conflicts are not fought by nation states and their armies, but rather by infor­mal enti­ties : gangs and war­lords using small arms and impro­vi­sed wea­pons. The series reveals how the post-Cold War pro­li­fe­ra­tion of small arms has chan­ged the land­scape of war, with women beco­ming pri­mary tar­gets and suf­fe­ring unpre­ce­den­ted casual­ties. Yet they are simul­ta­neously emer­ging as neces­sary part­ners in bro­ke­ring las­ting peace and as lea­ders in for­ging new inter­na­tio­nal laws gover­ning conflict. With depth and com­plexity, Women, War & Peace spot­lights the sto­ries of women in conflict zones from Bosnia to Afghanistan and Colombia to Liberia, pla­cing women at the center of an urgent dia­lo­gue about conflict and secu­rity, and refra­ming our unders­tan­ding of modern war­fare.

Featuring nar­ra­tors Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton, Geena Davis and Alfre Woodard, Women, War & Peace is the most com­pre­hen­sive global media ini­tia­tive ever moun­ted on the roles of women in war and peace. The series will pre­sent its ground­brea­king mes­sage across the globe by uti­li­zing all forms of media, inclu­ding U.S. and inter­na­tio­nal pri­me­time tele­vi­sion, radio, print, web, and world­wide com­mu­nity scree­nings, and will be accom­pa­nied by an edu­ca­tio­nal and outreach ini­tia­tive desi­gned to advance inter­na­tio­nal accoun­ta­bi­lity in regard to women and secu­rity. Women, War & Peace is a co-pro­duc­tion of THIRTEEN and Fork Films.

The five epi­so­des in the series :

- I Came to Testify is the moving story of how a group of 16 women who had been impri­so­ned and raped by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of Foca broke his­tory’s great silence – and step­ped for­ward to take the wit­ness stand in an inter­na­tio­nal court of law. Their remar­ka­ble cou­rage resul­ted in a trium­phant ver­dict that led to new inter­na­tio­nal laws about sexual vio­lence in war.

- Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the asto­ni­shing story of the Liberian women who took on the war­lords and regime of dic­ta­tor Charles Taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and won a once uni­ma­gi­na­ble peace for their shat­te­red coun­try in 2003.

- When the U.S. troop surge was announ­ced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan knew that the ground was being laid for peace talks with the Taliban. Peace Unveiled fol­lows three women in Afghanistan who are ris­king their lives to make sure that women’s rights don’t get traded away in the deal.

- The War We Are Living tra­vels to Cauca, a moun­tai­nous region in Colombia’s Pacific sou­th­west, where two extra­or­di­nary Afro-Colombian women are bra­ving a vio­lent strug­gle over their gold-rich lands. They are stan­ding up for a gene­ra­tion of Colombians who have been ter­ro­ri­zed and for­ci­bly dis­pla­ced as a deli­be­rate stra­tegy of war.

- War Redefined, the caps­tone of Women, War & Peace, chal­len­ges the conven­tio­nal wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain through inci­sive inter­views with lea­ding thin­kers, Secretaries of State and sea­so­ned sur­vi­vors of war and peace-making. Interviewees include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ; Liberian peace acti­vist Leymah Gbowee ; Bosnian war crimes inves­ti­ga­tor Fadila Memisevic ; and glo­ba­li­za­tion expert Moisés Naím.

World war II collection

- Femmes ton­dues. France Libération. Coupables, amou­reu­ses, vic­ti­mes

Près de 20 000 femmes sont ton­dues en France à la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mon­diale. Au moment de la Libération, alors que d’autres célè­brent le départ des trou­pes alle­man­des, elles doi­vent subir la tonte de leurs che­veux devant leur entou­rage. Maintes fois pho­to­gra­phiées pen­dant l’événement, ces femmes sont aussi des per­son­na­ges impor­tants de nom­breux écrits sur la guerre. Elles mar­quent la Libération tout autant que l’ima­gi­naire et la mémoire fran­çaise. Coupables, amou­reu­ses, vic­ti­mes : trois per­son­na­ges de femmes ton­dues qui nous aident à com­pren­dre com­ment la fin de la guerre a été vécue à la Libération et com­ment elle est perçue aujourd­hui. Chaîne de PressesUL : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=cAQW...

- New Documentary on the role of women in World War II

Northwest Notebook host Ty Ray talks with film­ma­ker Karl Schmidt about his docu­men­tary « During the War Women Went To Work. » Chaîne de nor­th­west­no­te­book : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=PHFa...

- Rosie the Riveter : Real Women Workers in World War II

Sheridan Harvey explo­res the evo­lu­tion of « Rosie the Riveter » and dis­cus­ses the lives of real women wor­kers in World War II. Sheridan Harvey is Women’s Studies Specialist in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division and senior editor of « American Women, » a resource guide for the study of women’s his­tory and culture in the United States. Chaîne de LibraryOfCongress : http://www.you­tube.com/watch?v=04VN...