Trần Văn Giàu

Trần Văn Giàu (1911 – 2010) or known as Sáu Giàu ("Giàu the Sixth") was a Vietnamese revolutionary and communist leader who served as founder and the first chairman of the Viet Minh authority in Cochinchina from 1945 to 1948. As supreme political chief of Viet Minh forces in Cochinchina, he suppressed and terrorized the religious and political factions in South Vietnam during the civil war in Vietnam, an prelude of the First Indochina War.^[1][2]

Trần Văn Giàu
Giàu in 1940
Chairman of the Southern Resistance Committee
In office 1945–1951
President	Ho Chi Minh
Deputy	Nguyễn Bình
Personal details
Born	(1911-09-11)11 September 1911 Châu Thành district, Long An province
Died	16 December 2010(2010-12-16) (aged 99) Tân Bình district, Ho Chi Minh City
Political party	Indochinese Communist Party
Other political affiliations	French Communist Party (1926-1930)
Alma mater	Lycée Lê Quý Đôn [fr] Toulouse Capitole University

After the victory over the nationalists and the full-scale war between Viet Minh and the French broke out, he retired from political affairs and started research in the social science. He was promote to be People’s Teacher in 1992.^[3]

See also

• Nguyễn Bình