Kiều Mộng Thu Explained

Kiều Mộng Thu
Office:Member of the House of Representatives of South Vietnam
Term Start:31 October 1971
Term End:30 April 1975
Successor:Position abolished
Office2:Member of the House of Representatives of South Vietnam
Term Start2:31 October 1967
Term End2:31 October 1971
Predecessor2:Position established
Constituency2:Thừa Thiên province
Birth Name:Trương Ngọc Thu
Birth Place:Long Xuyên, An Giang province, Cochinchina, French Indochina
Party:Independent
Spouse:Nguyễn Chức Sắc
Children:6
Nickname:The Dragon[1]

Kiều Mộng Thu (born 1941, real name: Trương Ngọc Thu) is a Vietnamese journalist, teacher, and an opposition politician well known during the existence of South Vietnam. During the Second Republic of the Republic of Vietnam, she was one of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu's staunchest political critics and opponents. She was one of the few women elected to the lower house (House of Representatives) of the National Assembly in 1967, representing Thừa Thiên province[2] and being reelected in 1971 this time representing the city of Huế.[3]

Biography

She was born in 1941 in Long Xuyên, An Giang province, Cochinchina, French Indochina.[4] [5]

Political career

During her tenure in the lower house of the National Assembly, she was a staunch opponent of the Vietnam War and advocated for the withdrawal of the US military from Vietnam..[6] On 19 October 1970, she participated in a seminar in criticizing and condemning the Thiệu regime; members ranging from President Thiệu, Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, and Prime Minister Trần Thiện Khiêm on their handling of the economy and caving into the US demands on a new currency exchange law. Regarding the currency exchange law, she stated, We cannot sit idle and allow the people's miserable lives to continue.[7]

Fall of Saigon

Not much is known about her status after the Fall of Saigon; however, it was reported that she joined the new regime of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and served as a member of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council.[8]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vietnam Bulletin Volumes 6-9.
  2. Web site: Vietnam Public Administration Bulletin nr. 41 (Nov. 1967). US Agency for International Development. 2024-05-02.
  3. Web site: Public Administration Bulletin, Vietnam. December 1, 1971. 57 . 2024-05-02.
  4. Web site: Who's who in Vietnam.
  5. Web site: Niên-Giám Hạ-Nghị-Viện Việt-Nam Cộng-Hòa, Pháp-Nhiệm I (1967–1971). 1968.
  6. Web site: Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts Issues 201-210.
  7. Web site: Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts Issues 201-210.
  8. Web site: Two Hamlets in Nam Bo: Memoirs of Life in Vietnam Through Japanese Occupation, the French and American Wars, and Communist Rule, 1940-1986 . 15 May 2008.
  9. Web site: Who's who in Vietnam.