On the night of July 21, 1952, the French military outpost of Cap Saint-Jacques in Vietnam was attacked, killing eight French non-commissioned officers and officers, six French children, two French women, and four Vietnamese children.

　　On the night of July 21st 1952, the French military outpost of Cap Saint Jacques in Vietnam was attacked, killing eight French non-commissioned officers and officers, six French children, two French women, and four Vietnamese children. At a conference held from July 8th to July 10th in front of Bao Dai in Vietnam, French General Sarin reiterated that the military situation in Vietnam was satisfactory and said that he wanted to accelerate the “Vietnamization” of the French military. However, despite the bad weather, the French army continued its mopping-up operations, and the Vietminh (Vietnamese Democratic Republic) continued its acts of terrorism. The First Indochina War was fought between France and the Vietminh (Vietnamese Democratic Republic) and its allies from December 19, 1946 to July 21, 1954.

　　The Vietminh assassinated between 100,000 and 150,000 of the 400,000 total civilian deaths. Vietminh fighters carried out terrorist attacks as a systematic practice throughout the conflict, often targeting European and Eurasian civilians. One of the worst attacks on Europeans was the massacre of 20 unarmed people, including eight officers on sick leave, six children, four Vietnamese servants and two women, at the military hospital in Cap Saint-Jacques on July 21, 1952, when Vietminh militants used grenades, stun guns and machetes. In Viet Minh prisoner of war camps, many prisoners of the French Union Forces and the National Liberation Army of Vietnam died as a result of torture.

　　During the First Indochina War, there were many cases of massacres and rapes of Vietnamese civilians by French soldiers. After the French troops returned to Vietnam in August 1945, there were incidents of robbery and murder in Saigon. In the north of Vietnam, after the defeat of the Vietminh in 1948, Vietnamese women were raped by French soldiers in areas such as Bao Ha, Bao Yen County and Phu Lu. In June 1948, 400 Vietnamese soldiers who had been trained by the French army defected to the Vietminh. The French army killed many Vietnamese civilians as the Vietminh army hid in civilian areas. One of the largest massacres by the French army was the My Trac Massacre on November 29, 1947, in which French soldiers killed more than 200 women and children.