Nguyễn Hữu Thọ

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Nguyễn Hữu Thọ (Vietnamese: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ hiw˦ˀ˥ tʰɔ˧˨ʔ]; 10 July 1910 – 24 December 1996) was a South Vietnamese politician, revolutionary and Chairman of Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam from 6 June 1969 to 2 July 1976, and the Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam from 4 July 1981 to 18 June 1987. Nguyễn Hữu Thọ began his political career in 1949, when he led protests against French colonial rule of Indochina and the patrols of US naval warships off the coast of southern Vietnam. As a consequence of these activities, he was arrested and imprisoned from 1950 to 1952. He went on an extended hunger strike while imprisoned which enhanced his reputation. After the partition of Vietnam into the Soviet-backed communist North Vietnam and the US-backed South Vietnam in 1954, he remained in the south and subsequently co-operated with the government of President Ngô Đình Diệm until he was arrested again for creating an organisation intended on achieving reunification...

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