Trần Văn Giàu

Trần Văn Giàu
Giàu in 1940
Chairman of the Southern Resistance Committee
In office
1945–1951
PresidentHo Chi Minh
DeputyNguyễn Bình
Personal details
Born(1911-09-11)11 September 1911
Died16 December 2010(2010-12-16) (aged 99)
PartyIndochinese Communist Party
Other political
affiliations
French Communist Party (1926-1930)
Alma materLycée Lê Quý Đôn
Toulouse Capitole University

Trần Văn Giàu (1911 – 2010) or known as Sáu Giàu ("Giàu the Sixth") was a Vietnamese revolutionary and communist leader who served as founder and the first chairman of the Viet Minh authority in Cochinchina from 1945 to 1948. As supreme political chief of Viet Minh forces in Cochinchina, he suppressed and terrorized the religious and political factions in South Vietnam during the civil war in Vietnam, an prelude of the First Indochina War.[1][2]

After the victory over the nationalists and the full-scale war between Viet Minh and the French broke out, he retired from political affairs and started research in the social science. He was promote to be People’s Teacher in 1992.[3]

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References

  1. ^ CỘNG SẢN VÀ CÁC ĐẢNG PHÁI QUỐC GIA
  2. ^ Marr 2013, pp. 408–409.
  3. ^ Tiểu sử Đồng chí Trần Văn Giàu