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Series – Reunification’s Reminiscence

by photographer Quang Lam

Category : Dokumentar    Info : #Hanoi #Dalat #Saigon #2012-2015

cities history Vietnam War

Reunification – this is the same aspiration for all people who shared the same history whose destiny has diverged suddenly.

The fate of the Vietnamese contemporary history can be read through the different names given to this place: Governor’s Palace, Independence Palace, and Reunification Palace. The current building was the residence of the Southern regime and has become a museum since April 30, 1975 when tanks have crashed through its gates.

For the memorial place, the choice is not made in Hanoi or Hue but in Saigon, as if the need for healing was the strongest for this city. And the 40th anniversary was an opportunity to replay these hours of liberation by a fiction of popular jubilation.

The iconic location does not lie in the beautiful rooms or living areas whom “vintage” style can be appreciated by nostalgic of the 70s. The bowels of the country’s history where powers game has taken place for over a century are in the basement, gray bunker with armored corridors.

It remains these communications devices that have served to announce the latest chapter in a concert of bells and operators’ cries of terror seeing with the advancing North Vietnamese troops. They secretly retain the voices of the past and their whispers still resonate as an echo of the sea in the hollow of a shell. The sufferings and joys, betrayals and reunions, the mess and the desire committed in the name of Reunification are not extinguished.

May these countless phones ring again.

Original text in French

Réunification – c’est la même aspiration pour tout peuple ayant partagé une même histoire millénaire dont le destin a brusquement divergé.

Le devenir de l’histoire contemporaine vietnamienne peut se lire dans les différents noms donnés à ce lieu : Palais du gouverneur, palais de l’Indépendance, palais de la Réunification. Le bâtiment actuel fut la résidence du régime sudiste et il s’est muséifié depuis ce jour du 30 avril 75 où les tanks nordistes ont emboutis la grille d’entrée.

Pour lieu de mémoire, le choix s’est imposé non à Hanoi, ni à  Hue mais à Saigon, comme si  le besoin de cicatrisation était le plus fort dans cette ville. Et le 40e anniversaire fut l’occasion de rejouer ces heures de libération en donnant une fiction de liesse populaire.

L’endroit emblématique ne réside pas dans  les magnifiques salles ou les espaces de vie que les nostalgiques des années 70 affectionnent pour son mobilier et son style « vintage ».  Les entrailles de l’Histoire d’un pays qui fut le théâtre d’un jeu de pouvoirs pendant plus d’un siècle se trouvent dans le bunker au sous-sol, gris et parcouru de couloirs blindés.

Il reste ces appareils de communications qui ont servis à annoncer le dernier chapitre dans un concert de sonneries et de cris des opérateurs voyant avec effroi l’avancée des troupes nord vietnamiennes. Ils conservent secrètement ces voix du passé et leurs murmures résonnent encore tel l’écho de la mer au creux d’un coquillage. Les souffrances et les joies, les trahisons et les retrouvailles, le gâchis et le désir commis au nom de la Réunification ne se sont pas éteints.

Puissent ces innombrables téléphones sonner encore.

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