This essay describes the wave of resistance that erupted across Western colonies in the early 1930s and the brutal measures taken by imperial powers in India, French Indochina, the Dutch East Indies, and Burma.

2016-04-26

What follows is a continuation of the previous section.

In such Western colonies, resistance against the suzerain powers erupted simultaneously in the early 1930s.

In India, Gandhi carried out the famous “Salt March.”

The line of Indians who participated stretched as long as fifty kilometers.

In protest against the salt tax, a symbol of colonial taxation, the British government imprisoned Gandhi and outlawed the Indian National Congress that supported him.

In French Indochina, six hundred men led by Nguyen Thai Hoc of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang attacked the French military base at Yen Bai and killed six white soldiers.

The French side deployed Senegalese troops, considered the best snipers in the world, slaughtered people indiscriminately, and finally executed Nguyen Thai Hoc and twelve others by guillotine.

The Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang was a nationalist organization led by Phan Boi Chau, who had studied in Japan, and the French government suppressed it as a terrorist group.

In the Dutch East Indies, the Dutch Navy destroyer De Zeven Provinciën was seized by residents resisting colonial rule.

And in Burma, the Saya San Rebellion broke out.

To be continued.