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..of Vietnamese descent  ???:

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The Strange Story Of An African Leader And His Two Vietnamese Daughters

A controversial historic African leader and two Vietnamese women were involved in a unique story that joins Africa and Vietnam in a recent period of history. Jean-Bédel Bokassa, also called Bokassa I, was one of the most controversial African leaders of the 20th century. The son of a village headman, Bokassa was born in 1921 in  Bobangui, Central African Republic. After the loss of his father, he spent his childhood in local mission schools before joining the French army in 1939.

After twenty years of serving in the French military, Bokassa distinguished himself in the first Indochina war. The conflict erupted in 1949 when France ratified separate treaties that recognized Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as independent, self-governing states within the French Union. This situation led to a war that lasted for decades.

While serving as a French soldier in Vietnam, Bokassa married a Vietnamese woman with whom he had a daughter. After being relocated, he ended up having to leave the two behind

In the early 1960s, Bokassa left the French armed forces. He made this decision because he wanted to lead the army of the newly independent Central African Republic. On Dec. 31, 1965, Bokassa plotted to overthrow David Dacko, the man who become the first president of this new African nation and declared himself president of the republic on Jan. 1, 1966.

Once he became president of Central Africa, one of his first actions was to contact the French Ambassador to find his daughter.

After years of searching, Bokassa received information that the South Vietnamese government has found his first family.

However, a local Vietnamese paper said Martine and her mother were impostors. The media reports said that the real Martine was a worker at a Saigon factory. She traveled to meet Bokassa, showing some photos years before he left Vietnam with her him and her mother.




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