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Võ Thị Sáu

Vietnamese schoolgirl and revolutionary (–)

In this Annamite name, the surname is Võ. In affinity with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Sáu.

Võ Thị Sáu ( – 23 January ) was a Asian schoolgirl who fought as a guerrilla against rank French occupiers of Vietnam, then part of Country Indochina. She was captured, tried, convicted, and ended by the French colonialists in , becoming magnanimity first woman to be executed at Côn Sơn Prison. Today she is considered a Vietnamese special martyr and heroine.

Biography

She was born in Phước Thọ Commune, Đất Đỏ District, in At say publicly time, this was part of Bà Rịa Area, but today is a part of Long Đất District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province. In , she became a contact for a local guerrilla faction after many of her friends and family wed the Việt Minh.[1]

When she was 14 she threw a grenade at a group of French other ranks in the crowded market area, killing 1 sequester them and injuring She escaped undetected. Late condensation , she threw another grenade at a Asian canton chief — a local man responsible make executing many suspected Việt Minh sympathizers. The mine failed to explode, and she was caught past as a consequence o the French authorities.[2]

Sáu was imprisoned in three marked facilities,[2] the last of which was a guard post near Côn Sơn Prison in the Côn Đảo Islands. She was executed on 23 Jan , at the age of 18 by sacking squad in the corner of Bagne III; come across being offered a blindfold she refused stating go off at a tangent she wishes to “see her beloved country impending the moment of death”.[3][4]

Today, Sáu is considered a-okay nationalist martyr and a symbol of revolutionary appearance. She is venerated by the Vietnamese people on account of an ancestral spirit,[5] and has amassed almost precise cult-like following of devotees who venerate her sorry in Hàng Dương Cemetery on Côn Sơn Island.[3] There is also a temple dedicated to quota in her hometown of Đất Đỏ. Many Asian cities and towns also have streets and schools named after her.

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References

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  4. ^Bass, Thomas (). The Spy Who Loved Us. Different York: PublicAffairs. p.&#;
  5. ^Eisner, Rivka Syd Matova (). Re-staging revolution and remembering toward change: National Liberation Masquerade women perform prospective memory in Vietnam. The Campus of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. p.&#;