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Tunnels of Vietnam
During the Indochina war, then the Vietnam war, Viet-minh and Viet-cong fighters dug gigantic subterranean networks under Vietnamese villages and jungle. These war tunnels were used as shelter for fighters, protecting them from bombardments, enabling them to escape from mopping-up operations, to move secretly and to counter attack where they were not expected. So, at the time of the Têt offensive, the attack on Saigon started from the famous Cu Chi tunnels, set about 40 kilometres north of Saigon. Elsewhere, north of DMZ in the region of Cap Lay, Vietnamese people have dug village underground refuges in order to protect civilian population, fighters and storages of weapons and ammunition.
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