Colonel Jambon Goes out with a Message
For generations the Hmong hill people, (pronounced ‘Mung,’) fought proxy wars for first French, then US interests in South East Asia. Back when the place was called Indochina, the Hmong formed the backbone of indigenous forces fighting Communists across what is now Laos-Cambodia-Vietnam.
When the French left, the Americans picked them up, when the Americans left, the Hmong found themselves abandoned again.
A retired French colonel killed himself at a memorial to the war in South East Asia, in protest against what he called official indifference to the treatment of the Hmong minority, French police said on Monday.
Jambon
Robert Jambon, 86, shot himself on the steps of the Monument Indochine in the Breton town of Dinan on October 27, police said, and in a suicide letter published by the newspaper Ouest France, he described his act as a protest.
“After a long period of disappointment, I have decided to play my final card, or more precisely my final bullet,” he wrote in the letter, a copy of which was posted on the daily’s website.
In the note, he said the suicide was aimed at expressing his shame and “to protest against the cowardly indifference of our officials in the face of the terrible misfortune that is hitting our friends in Laos.”
“This is not a suicide but an act of war aimed at rescuing our brothers-in-arms facing death,” he continued.
Jambon, who fought alongside Hmongs during France’s 1950-54 war in Indochina (the French name for a territory that now includes its former colony Vietnam) had spent decades trying to raise awareness of the minority’s treatment.
Meanwhile, short of everything but hope, the Hmong soldier on
I am thankful for Colonel Jambon for his acknowledgement of the war that involved with Hmong people and sacrify his life as return. His sacrifice will be remembered forever.
Thanks Colonel Jambo for his sacrifice his life for hmong people; as hmong people used to sacrify there life for France and USA.
Hope God will bless the sacrifice.