| Summary: | Nguyen Thi Sinh describes the women of her village protesting against the forced labor of their husbands in Ngo Dinh Diem's agroville or "Strategic Hamlet" program. She recalls being arrested and beaten as a result of the protest. Finally, she describes her attitude toward the Diem regime and the National Liberation Front. Nguyen Thi Dinh was a Deputy Supreme Commander of the National Liberation Front. Following the war, Madame Dinh served on the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party and became the first female Major General of the Vietnam People's Army. She describes in detail her activities against the French, and her subsequent arrest and torture. She then details the repressions suffered under Ngo Dinh Diem, the Tet Offensive, the Phoenix Program, and the fall of Saigon. Madame Nguyen Thi Binh was the Foreign Minister of the National Liberation Front, and a representative at the Paris peace talks. At the time of the interview, she was the Minister of Education of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and she later served for ten years as Vice President of the country. In the interview she describes life in colonial Saigon, joining the Viet Minh, and the three years spent in a French prison. Mme. Binh then describes her political involvement in the Provisional Revolutionary Government and the peace negotiations in Paris.
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