Dương Văn Dương
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Dương Văn Dương (1900 – February 20, 1946) was a Vietnamese military officer and leader of the Bình Xuyên army. His nickname was Ba Dương (Dương the Third). He was born in 1900 to a family of poor peasants in Bến Tre Province. During the 1920s, Ba Dương became the leader of the Bình Xuyên, then a coalition of river pirates who extorted protection money from the sampans that traveled the canals on their way to the Cholon docks. Known for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, the Bình Xuyên became popular heroes among the inhabitants in the jungle.[1][2] In 1936, Dương started his criminal activities by providing protection services to the Tây Ninh-Phnom Penh bus station in Saigon. By 1940, he had become a kingpin of South Vietnam. When the Empire of Japan invaded Vietnam in 1940, Ba Dương organized a dare-to-die group of youth to organize resistance to their occupation with his younger brother Năm Hà along with some "inferiors" Bảy Viễn, Mười Trí [vi], ... When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, he cooperated with the Viet Minh against the Anglo-French reoccupation of the country.
Major General Dương Văn Dương | |
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Personal details | |
Born | 1900 (1900) Gia Định, French Cochinchina |
Died | 1946 (aged 45–46) Bến Tre, Democratic Republic of Vietnam |
Nickname | Ba Dương |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Democratic Republic of Vietnam |
Branch/service | People's Army of Vietnam |
Rank | Major General (posthumously) |