Vo Thi Sau

Vietnamese schoolgirl Vo Thi Sau participated in guerilla warfare against the French occupiers of Vietnam, which was then a part of French Indochina. She was the first woman to be put to death at Con Son Prison after she was arrested, tried, found guilty, and murdered by the French colonialists in 1952. She is now revered as a national martyr and hero in Vietnam.

In 1933, she was born in the Phuoc Tho Commune of the Dat Do District. She started working with a local guerilla group in 1948 after several of her friends and relatives joined the Viet Minh.

When she was 14 years old, in the crowded market area, she threw a grenade at a group of French soldiers, killing one of them and wounded 12. She slipped away unnoticed. Late in 1949, she hurled another grenade at a Vietnamese canton head who was in charge of killing numerous people who were thought to be Viet Minh sympathizers in the area. She was apprehended by French officials after the grenade did not go off. It is stated that she resisted wearing a blindfold and was executed by firing squad on January 23, 1952, when she was 18 years old, in the corner of Bagne III.

Vo Thi Sau is now revered as a patriot martyr and a representation of the spirit of revolution. She is revered as an ancestral ghost by the Vietnamese people, and her burial in the Hang Duong Cemetery on Con Son Island has a cult-like following of followers. In her hometown of t, there is also a temple dedicated to her. She has streets and schools named after her in numerous Vietnamese cities and towns.