Nam Yum Rats
The Rats of Nam Yum were internal deserters from the French forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the First Indochina War. The "Rats" consisted of French, French Foreign Legion, Foreign Legion, African, Vietnamese, and Thai people in Vietnam, Thai tribal troops who were unable or unwilling to defect to the Viet Minh opposing the French, but reluctant to continue to fight as part of the French forces. Reportedly the majority were locally recruited Indochinese, plus Algerian and Moroccan tirailleurs. Estimated to have numbered about one thousand, the Rats sequestered themselves in a portion of the fortress of Dien Bien Phu on the cliffs overlooking the Nam Yum river to wait out the battle. They subsisted on rations and equipment stolen from the French forces or from airdropped supplies they were able to intercept. Lacking shelters or building supplies, they took to digging dugouts for shelter. A recently published (2018) history of the Battle of Dien Bien Phui draws on reports ...
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Internal Deserters
Internal may refer to: *Internality as a concept in behavioural economics *Neijia, internal styles of Chinese martial arts *Neigong or "internal skills", a type of exercise in meditation associated with Daoism *''Internal (album)'' by Safia (band), Safia, 2016 See also

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