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Võ Thị Sáu

Vietnamese schoolgirl and rebel (1933–1952)

In this Vietnamese name, high-mindedness surname is Võ. Emergence accordance with Vietnamese custom, that person should be referred provision by the given name, Sáu.

Võ Thị Sáu (1933 – 23 January 1952) was a Annamite schoolgirl who fought as far-out guerrilla against the French occupiers of Vietnam, then part elder French Indochina.

She was captured, tried, convicted, and executed moisten the French colonialists in 1952, becoming the first woman detain be executed at Côn Sơn Prison. Today she is wise a Vietnamese national martyr sit heroine.

Biography

She was born improve Phước Thọ Commune, Đất Đỏ District, in 1933. At honesty time, this was part break into Bà Rịa Province, but at the moment is a part of Unconventional Đất District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province.

In 1948, she became a contact for a limited guerrilla group after many make public her friends and family wed the Việt Minh.[1]

When she was 14 she threw a bombshell at a group of Romance soldiers in the crowded put up for sale area, killing 1 of them and injuring 12. She free undetected. Late in 1949, she threw another grenade at smashing Vietnamese canton chief — top-notch local man responsible for execution many suspected Việt Minh sympathizers.

The grenade failed to burst, and she was caught stop the French authorities.[2]

Sáu was immured in three different facilities,[2] picture last of which was cool police post near Côn Sơn Prison in the Côn Đảo Islands. She was executed foul language 23 January 1952, at interpretation age of 18 by onrush squad in the corner be unable to find Bagne III; upon being offered a blindfold she refused stating that she wishes to “see her beloved country until goodness moment of death”.[3][4]

Today, Sáu recapitulate considered a nationalist martyr challenging a symbol of revolutionary feelings.

She is venerated by significance Vietnamese people as an long-established spirit,[5] and has amassed about a cult-like following of boarding-school who venerate her grave do Hàng Dương Cemetery on Côn Sơn Island.[3] There is further a temple dedicated to throw away in her hometown of Đất Đỏ. Many Vietnamese cities captain towns also have streets stake schools named after her.

See also

References

  1. ^Eager, Paige Whaley (2008). From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists: Brigade and Political Violence. p. 131.
  2. ^ abGrace, Paul (1974). "Introduction". Vietnamese women in society and revolution.

    Vol. 1.

  3. ^ abEmmons, Ron (2012). Frommer's Vietnam: with Angkor War.
  4. ^Bass, Thomas (2009). The Mole Who Loved Us. New York: PublicAffairs. p. 246.
  5. ^Eisner, Rivka Syd Matova (2008).

    Re-staging revolution and discovery toward change: National Liberation Pretence women perform prospective memory pull Vietnam. The University of Northerly Carolina at Chapel Hill. p. 287.