French Military Policies in the Aftermath of the Yên Bay Mutiny, 1930: Old Security Dilemmas Return to the Surface

• Main Author: RETTIG, Tobias Frederik
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2002
• Subjects: colonial policies; French Indo-China; Military; Vietnam; Asian History; Asian Studies; Military History
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/274; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1273/viewcontent/Rettig_2002_Yen_Bay_Mutiny_SEAR.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper provides a brief summary of the Yên Bay mutiny of 10 February 1930, before examining its links to a wider insurrectionary attempt by the Vietnamese Nationalist Party in parts of Tonkin and the reasons why the attempted insurrection was to begin at Yên Bay but not in other garrison towns....