Also known as Nguyễn Chiến Mã, seen here with his wife, Camille, a mixed Franco-Vietnamese activist. Originally was the Secretary of the Communist Party of Morocco in Casablanca. He was dispatched to Vietnam via the French Communist Party at the request of the Vietnamese for a Moroccan organizer, as Moroccans and Algerians made up both a large part of the French forces and the deserters in the Vietnamese camp. Deputy Chief of the Department of Enemy Propaganda and one of the major organizers of the DINA (Independent Detachment of North Africans), a small official unit of North Africans in the PAVN. Apparently, he was in the first group that entered De Castries’s bunker during the final stage of the battle of Dien Bien Phu and also apparently, went to hoard all of De Castries’s stuff to gift to everyone in the CPM and even took his dog too.
Now, for the Moroccan, they were perhaps the last major group of foreigners to surge in the Vietnamese ranks due to the 1953 crisis in the homeland itself and unlike most foreigners, there was no official mechanism to transfer post-WW2 displaced back to Morocco, nor were there relations between Vietnam and its allies with Morocco to facilitate it so they were settled in Vietnam instead with a village set aside, however as American bombing started to intensify, this village located in one of the most major food production area of the North suffered many casualities which pushed urgently for a way to send them home, eventually the last one was repatriated alongside their familes in 1972, Colonel Ben Aomar included. They are the source for the Vietnamese villages that continue to exist today.
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Also known as Nguyễn Chiến Mã, seen here with his wife, Camille, a mixed Franco-Vietnamese activist. Originally was the Secretary of the Communist Party of Morocco in Casablanca. He was dispatched to Vietnam via the French Communist Party at the request of the Vietnamese for a Moroccan organizer, as Moroccans and Algerians made up both a large part of the French forces and the deserters in the Vietnamese camp. Deputy Chief of the Department of Enemy Propaganda and one of the major organizers of the DINA (Independent Detachment of North Africans), a small official unit of North Africans in the PAVN. Apparently, he was in the first group that entered De Castries’s bunker during the final stage of the battle of Dien Bien Phu and also apparently, went to hoard all of De Castries’s stuff to gift to everyone in the CPM and even took his dog too.
Another [picture](https://imgur.com/44mVYi9) showing his medals
Now, for the Moroccan, they were perhaps the last major group of foreigners to surge in the Vietnamese ranks due to the 1953 crisis in the homeland itself and unlike most foreigners, there was no official mechanism to transfer post-WW2 displaced back to Morocco, nor were there relations between Vietnam and its allies with Morocco to facilitate it so they were settled in Vietnam instead with a village set aside, however as American bombing started to intensify, this village located in one of the most major food production area of the North suffered many casualities which pushed urgently for a way to send them home, eventually the last one was repatriated alongside their familes in 1972, Colonel Ben Aomar included. They are the source for the Vietnamese villages that continue to exist today.