Biography
Binh was born in an all-Catholic village named Tieu Dong, Binh Luc District, Ha Nam Province in the Red River delta of northern Vietnam. His family was poor but the parents managed to scrape together enough money to enroll Tran Tu Binh at a seminary. At school, he was remembered as a brilliant but very restive and steady student. In 1926, because of participating in the public mourning the death of Phan Chu Trinh, a prominent Vietnamese scholar-patriot, and mobilizing the students and young people in the neighbourhood to protest against French colonial rule in Vietnam, Tran Tu Binh was expelled from the seminary. His parents and relatives were very much disappointed about it but the young man did not regret. He had a strong belief that what he did was an obligation of any responsible Vietnamese. At that moment, without yet knowing it, Tran Tu Binh joined the ranks of the young patriot intelligentsia, a group destined to play a critical role in modern Vietnamese history.
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