Trần Thị Lý

Trần Thị Lý (born in Điện Quang, Điện Bàn District, Quảng Nam, 30 December 1933, died Đà Nẵng 20 November 1992) was a Vietnamese communist party member,[1] who was imprisoned and tortured in Saigon.[2]

The Nguyễn Văn Trỗi – Trần Thị Lý Bridge is named after her and a fellow revolutionary, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi.

References

  1. ↑ Vietnam, patrie retrouvée - Page 104 Khăć Viện Nguyêñ - 1977 "Une figure émerge au milieu de tous ces souvenirs : Tran Thi Ly, cette jeune fille du Quang Nam torturée pendant de longs mois, criant à une camarade qui gémissait sous les coups des tortionnaires à côté d'elle" (A figure emerged from the midst of all those memories: Tran Thi Ly, that young Quang Nam girl tortured for months on end, calling out to a comrade who was groaning under the blows of the torturers beside her".)
  2. ↑ Women of Viet Nam no 1 - Page 2 Hội Liên hiêp phu nũ Viêt Nam - 1991 "Mrs Tran Thi Ly and her husband Nguyen Viet Juan. Tran Thi Ly was a heroine of the Vietnamese resistance to foreign aggression. In the late 1950s, early 1960s, her name was a household word throughout the country. The story of how she stood up to her torturers in the jails of the Saigon regime moved the entire people, young and old. When fellow-militants managed to get her out of their clutches and take her to North for medical care, her body bore no fewer than forty-one wounds. Her courage and energy inspired many a writer and painter. But the public knew little about her personal life. Yet, it was a no less inspiring side of her personality, and that of someone very close and dear to her, her husband. .."