[HIGHLIGHTS] 70 years later, return to Diên Bien Phu with fighters from both camps

70 years ago, at the end of hard fighting between March 13 and May 7, 1954, the defeat of the soldiers commanded by General de Castries sounded the death knell for Indochina French. To tell the story of the 57 days of Diên Bien Phu, Vietnamese museographers have imagined a reproduction of the battlefield with electric animation.

On the large bumpy model of hills, we see the small red lights of the bô dôi columns converging towards the French positions, which go out one after the other. Tentacles that grow, strangle, suffocate. Inexorable, poignant. The tragedy, at 1/2,000 scale. We returned to the scene of a... a land of memories . The tragedy,. at 1-2-000 scale The tragedy. A LAND OF MEMORIES In 2024, DiêN BienPhu is a border town of 140,000 inhabitants that continues to grow.