Nguyễn Bình
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Not to be confused with Nguyễn Bính.
Nguyễn Bình, born Nguyễn Phương Thảo (1906, Tien Tinh - 1951), was a Lieutenant-general in the Viet Minh. He was imprisoned by the French on the island of Poulo Condor in the early 1920s. He was sent by Ho Chi Minh in 1945 to establish a resistance to French rule in Cochinchina where he established his base of operations in the Plain of Reeds near Saigon. A former member of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, he joined the Indochinese Communist Party in 1946.[1]