Vũ Hồng Khanh (1898 – 14 November 1993) born Vũ Văn Giảng,[1] was a Vietnamese revolutionary of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng faction.[2]
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Biography
editVũ Hồng Khanh was one of founding members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng that was formed in 1927. He left Vietnam for Yunnan during the French colonial crackdown of 1930 and enrolled in a Kuomintang military school in Kunming. He graduated and was granted a commission in the Nationalist Chinese Twentieth Army Corps, where he rose quickly to the rank of brigadier general. In 1941 he took on the role of head of a school training Vietnamese, Burmese and Thai recruits. He became the vice-president of the "Government of National Unity" from March to October 1946.[3][4] In late December 1949, the Chinese Communist Party defeated the Kuomintang throughout China and forced the remnants of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng to flee to the Vietnamese border. Vu Hong Khanh led about seven to eight thousand remnants of the party into Vietnam via Nacham, between Lang Son and Cao Bang. When the French garrison attempted to disarm this army, a clash broke out. Surrounded and attacked by both the French and the Viet Minh, losing about two thousand men in the clashes, on January 6, 1950, Vu Hong Khanh and the remaining remnants laid down their arms and surrendered to the French.
In 1952, Vu Hong Khanh served as Minister of Sports and Youth in the Nguyen Van Tam cabinet of the State of Vietnam. He later led a faction of the party in South Vietnam, he supported South Vietnamese government against communists.
Khanh retired to his home village of làng Thổ Tang, modern Vĩnh Tường District, where he died at the age of 95.
References
edit- ^ Vũ Hồng Khanh’s history of the Vietnam Nationalist Party (Việt Nam Quốc dân Đảng) – Brett Reilly
- ^ Văn Đào Hoàng Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang: A Contemporary History of a National 2008 "Vũ Hồng Khanh was elected its secretary general, putting him in opposition to the Ngô Thúc Địch central committee. Each party organization tried to recruit more Party members and cultivate better activities and achievements than the other."
- ^ Nguyen Công Luan Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned 2012 - "Other nationalist leaders were appointed ministers, such as the famous writer Nguyễn T?ờng Tam, pen name Nhất Linh, of the Việt Quốc, as minister of foreign affairs, and Vũ Hồng Khanh of the Việt Quốc, vice chairman of the Resistance ..."
- ^ Robert Trando Letters of a Vietnamese Émigré 2010 Page 47 "The opposition party arrived, especially Nguyễn Hải Thần and Vũ Hồng Khanh, in starched blue denim, high-collared, Chinese-style outfits. Hồ went out to meet them, arms wide open in a bear hug, tears circling his eyes."