Moroccan Soldiers Defect During Indochina War, Resisting French Colonial Rule

In an article published in 2023 on the atalayar.com website, Mahjar-Barducci recounts the story of her Moroccan grandfather. "After the end of World War II, my grandfather, Ahmed Mahjar, born in Morocco under the French protectorate, was one of the recruits from the African colonies to participate in the Indochina war (1946-1954)," she recounts, stressing that he and other Moroccans deserted to be on the right side of history. "He rebelled against the colonial power and joined the Vietnamese people in their struggle for freedom and sovereignty," she says, stressing that these Moroccan soldiers aspired to the same independence for their own country.

On March 2, 1956, Morocco gained its independence, two years after the end of the