Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (L) lays a wreath at the French memorial in Dien Bien Phu, the battle that spelled the end of France's colonial rule in Indochina.
Diên Biên Phu (Vietnam) (AFP) - Standing at the site of the epic battle of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam, French colonel Jacques Allaire wept at the memory of his 4,000 fellow fighters who died in the bloody fight that would spell the end of France's colonial rule in Indochina.
The 94-year-old former POW accompanied French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Saturday to the remote valley where the bloody battle raged for 56 days before Vietnam's shock victory that would pave the way for the communist nation's independence.
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