The demise of General Vo Nguyen Giap at the ripe old age of 102 closes a chapter in history that not only determined the fate of Vietnam but resonated in many other parts of the world.
ISLAMABAD: General Vo Nguyen Giap, who passed away on Friday, Oct 4, was the strategist behind the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu that not only dealt a fatal blow to French colonialist aspirations in Vietnam, but gave succour to anti-imperialist forces across the Third World. A number of historians consider it to have sounded the death knell for Western colonialism worldwide.