Abbas is one of the rare photographers who covered all three sides of the
Vietnam war : the South, the North and the Vietcong controlled areas of the
South. This essay is his contribution to the Magnum Stories book published
in 2005.

A Vietcong guerilla on patrol in a sampan in the Delta region of South
Vietnam carries all his belongings in his rucksack and has a Russian-
built Kalashnikov at his feet. The Vietcong carries a torch, a hand
grenade and his pharmacy around his belt. He paddles the sampan
himself. An ARVN, a soldier of the Army of South Vietnam, is equipped and
armed with an M16 by...