Nguyen Thi Minh Khai

Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai
(1910-1941)

Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai (1910–1941) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and a leader of the Indochinese Communist Party during the 1930s.

Khai was born in Vinh, Nghệ An Province. In 1927, she co-founded the New Revolutionary Party of Vietnam (Tân Việt Cách mạng Đảng) which was a predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam. In 1930, she went to Hong Kong and became a secretary for Nguyễn Ài 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 Moskow. Later she married Lê.

In 1936, she returned to Vietnam and became the top leader of the communists in Sài Gòn.

She was seized by the French colonial government in 1940 and was executed the next year.

Today, Khai is honoured as a revolutionary martyr by the Vietnamese, and some roads, schools, and administrative units in Vietnam are named after her.

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Name	Khai, Nguyen Thi Minh
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Date of birth	1910
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Date of death	1941
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