Word: cantho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pardon him, Ba Cut asked to be shot like a soldier. One night last week 32-year-old Ba Cut wrote a farewell letter, asking his parents to care for the innumerable children of his nine wives. Then, before dawn, he was driven in an army truck to Cantho cemetery. Dressed in black, his waist-length hair now cut short, Ba Cut was led to the place of execution. Only then did he discover that his plea for a firing squad had been rejected; before him loomed the shining blade of a French guillotine...
...walked resolutely forward, placed his body on the execution platform. As dawn came to Cantho cemetery, the blade swished down and General Ba Cut's head rolled into one basket, his body into another...
...wound on through Communist-infested territory to Baclieu, Vietnamese troops stood at the ready every 100 yards along the route. Cambodian Champion Soun (he has no other name) and a Saigon policeman named Ngo Than Liem were racing well ahead of the field as they passed the town of Cantho...