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> No. It was initiated by the South, when it refused (with US support) to participate in a national UN-monitored election Hostilities were initiated by the Nor
by peteretep 6y ago
> No. It was initiated by the South, when it refused (with US support) to participate in a national UN-monitored election
Hostilities were initiated by the North in the form of a guerrilla war.
- mirimir 6y agoSome years before the war started, the factions that became the North (majority) and South (minority) participated in negotiations at Geneva. The deal stipulated national elections, with interim partition (North and South) after a delay to allow migration. But the South faction, realizing that it would lose, declined to participate. And that's what precipitated the conflict. It's crucial to keep in mind that it was the North faction that had been fighting for independence from France. And that the South Faction comprised largely the colonial bureaucracy and Catholics.