Võ Thị Sáu
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Võ Thị Sáu was a teenager who fought as a guerrilla during the First Indochina War participating in the resistance movement against the French colonists for Vietnam’s independence. She carried out mul
Portrait of Võ Thị Sáu at the Vung Tau Police Office.
Grave of Võ Thị Sáu on Côn Sơn Island
Côn Đảo Prison
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Côn Đảo Prison, also Côn Sơn Prison, is a prison on Côn Sơn Island, the largest island of the Côn Đảo archipelago in southern Vietnam. Administratively it is located in Ho Chi Minh City. The prison wa
Võ Thị Sáu
…in Southern Vietnam at the time. She was captured, tried, convicted, and executed by the French in 1952, becoming the first woman to be executed at Côn Đảo Prison. Today in Vietnam she is considered a symbolic national revolutionary martyr and heroine. The Vietnamese government posthumously awarded her the title…
Côn Đảo Prison in 2014