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Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911-1966) was a hero of the Vietnamese resistance against the French colonists / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nguyen Ngoc Bich | |
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Born | 18 May 1911 |
Died | 4 Dec 1966 |
Nationality | Vietnamese |
Citizenship | South Vietnam |
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Years active | 1935 - 1966 |
Known for | Resistance war, politics |
Title | Doctor (medical) |
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Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966) was an engineer, a hero in the Vietnamese resistance against the French colonists,[1][lower-alpha 1] a medical doctor, an intellectual and politician, who proposed an alternative viewpoint to avoid the high-casualty, high-cost war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.[2]
The Nguyen-Ngoc-Bich street in the city of Cần Thơ, Vietnam, was named after him to honor and commemorate his feats (of sabotaging bridges to slow down the colonial French-army advances) and heroism (imprisoned, subjected to an "intensive and unpleasant interrogation" that left a mark on his forehead,[lower-alpha 2] and exiled) during the (French) First Indochina War.
Upon graduating from the École polytechnique (engineering military school under the Ministry of Armies) and then from the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (civil engineering) in France in 1935,[3] Dr. Bich returned to Vietnam to work for the French colonial government. After World War II, he became a senior commander in the Vietnamese resistance movement, and insisted on fighting for Vietnam's independence, not for communism.
Suspecting being betrayed by his side and apprehended by the French forces, he was saved from execution by a campaign for amnesty by his Polytechnique classmates based in Vietnam, mostly high-level officers of the French army, and was subsequently exiled to France, where he founded with friends and managed the Vietnamese publishing house Minh Tan (in Paris), which published many important works for the Vietnamese literature.[lower-alpha 3] In parallel, he studied medicine and became a medical doctor. He was highly regarded in Vietnamese politics, and was considered "by many"[5][lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 5] as an alternative to Ngo Dinh Diem as president of South Vietnam. His candidature for the 1961 presidential election in opposition to Diem was, however, declared invalid by the Saigon authorities at the last moment for "technical reasons".[5][3]
Much of the information in this article came from the document Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911-1966): A Biography.[4]