Mass Killing of Christians
- When
- July–September 1885
- Where
- Vietnam (region unspecified in sources; Cochinchina per legacy record)
Between late July and the end of September 1885, Cần Vương fighters killed around 40,000 Vietnamese Christians, likely wiping out nearly a third of Vietnam's Christian population.
The killings occurred during the Cần Vương insurgency against French colonial rule. Although the numbers remain disputed, the sourced passage estimates around 40,000 Vietnamese Christians killed between the end of July and the end of September 1885, eliminating nearly a third of Vietnam's Christian population. The passage locates the violence in Vietnam without naming a region; the Cochinchina attribution comes from the legacy record and is not confirmed by retrieved sources. The legacy figure of 24,000 deaths and the destruction of 225 churches, 17 orphanages and 10 convents are not supported by the supplied passages.
Sources
- Cần Vương movement Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-31
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