Question

Describe any three efforts made by the french to suppress the movement inspired by huynh phu so

Answer 1

The French tried to suppress the movement inspired by Huynh Phu So.

(i) They declared him mad, called him the Mad Bonze, and put him in a mental asylum.

(ii) Interestingly, the doctor who had to prove him insane became his follower, and finally in 1941, even the French doctors declared that he was sane.

(iii) The French authorities exiled him to Laos and sent many of his followers to concentration camps."