Who is Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh was born Nguyen That Thanh on May 19, 1890, in the village of Kim Lien, province of Nghe An, central Vietnam, into a family of scholar-revolutionaries, who had been successively dismissed from government service for anti-French activities. At the age of 9  Ho and his mother, who had been charged with stealing French weapons for the rebels, fled to Hue, the imperial city. His father, constantly persecuted by the French police, had left for Saigon. Operating from the Cao Bang province near the Chinese border, Ho founded the Vietnamese Revolutionary Independence League, or Viet Minh, in May 1941. Under his leadership, which was interrupted by a 13-month stretch in a Chinese jail, the Viet Minh began a small-scale guerrilla campaign against the Japanese occupiers. With his revolutionary ideas and proposition of liberation, Minh led the Việt Minh independence movement from 1941, eventually forming the communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. Even after leaving the position of power, Minh continued to remain one of the key people of Vietnam, a highly venerated leader who fought for a united and communist Vietnam.

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