Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai

Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai (1 November 1910 in Vinh, Annam – 28 August 1941 in Hóc Môn, Cochinchina) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and a leader of the Indochinese Communist Party during the 1930s.

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Nguyễn. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Khai.

Biography

Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai was born on 1 November 1910 in Vinh, Nghệ An Province, Viet Nam. In 1927, she co-founded the New Revolutionary Party of Vietnam which was a predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam. In 1930, she went to Hong Kong and became a secretary for Hồ Chí Minh (at the time known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc) in the office of the Orient Bureau of the Comintern.

From 1931 to 1934, she was jailed by the British administration in Hong Kong. In 1934, she and Lê Hồng Phong were voted to be attendees in the Seventh Congress of Comintern in Moscow. Later she married Lê.

In 1936, she returned to Vietnam and became the top leader of the communists in Saigon. She was seized by the French colonial government in 1940 and was executed by firing squad[1] the next year.[2][3] Her husband Lê had been jailed in June 1939, and later died in the tiger cages at Poulo Condore prison in September 1942.[4]

Today, Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai is honoured as a revolutionary martyr by the Vietnamese Communist Party, and some roads, schools, and administrative units in Vietnam are named after her. Some of these include the Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai urban ward in Bắc Kạn, and Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai High School.

See also

References
  1. Ho Chi Minh: A Life - Ch 8
  2. Erik Harms Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City 2011 - Page 29 "... intersection, where many anticolonial figures perished, including, most famously, the trio of Nguyễn thị Minh Khai ... And nowadays the historic memorial to revolutionary martyrs executed at the "Giồng" triple intersection is threatened by ..."
  3. J. Wills Burke Origines: the streets of Vietnam : a historical companion 2001 - Page 94 "NGUYỄN VĂN CỬ Nguyễn Văn Cừ was a Vietnamese revolutionary leader. He, along with Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai and Others, spearheaded the Nam Kỳ (Southem Region) Insurrection against the French that broke out in Gia Định Province in ..."
  4. Ho Chi Minh: A Life - Ch 8
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