Childhood away from home
Ly Tu Trong's real name is Le Huu Trong, born on October 20, 1914, in May village, Nakhon Phanom province, Kingdom of Thailand, in a family with a rich tradition of patriotism. Ly Tu Trong's father is Mr. Le Huu Dat, from Ke Vet village (now Viet Tien commune), Thach Ha district, Ha Tinh province; his mother is Mrs. Nguyen Thi Som, from Can Loc, Ha Tinh province.
Le Huu Trong was born in Thailand because, during this period, due to having to avoid the fierce pursuit of the French colonialists, tens of thousands of patriotic compatriots (mostly from the Central region, mainly in the provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri...) who had risen up with Phan Dinh Phung to fight the French and then followed Phan Boi Chau to join the Vietnam Restoration Association to seek "national restoration" were forced to find a way to cross the high Truong Son mountains and cross the Mother River (Mekong), among them were Mr. Le Huu Dat and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Som. They went to Thailand both to earn a living and to organize forces to return to fight the French.
When he was about 4 or 5 years old, Le Huu Trong was sent by his parents to live with Mr. and Mrs. Cuu Tuan, a fellow countryman and close comrade in the "Quang Phuc Quan" (armed force of the Vietnam Quang Phuc Association) so that his parents could spend time both farming and building volunteer armies.
Growing up in the spirit and tradition of patriotism of both his family and overseas Vietnamese, at the age of 6, Le Huu Trong was able to attend a school opened by the leaders of the Vietnam Restoration Association in Ban May. Here, Le Huu Trong learned the history of Vietnam, patriotic literature and poetry of Phan Boi Chau and other patriots, as well as Chinese and Thai languages...
Early days of training
In 1925, the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association was established in Guangzhou, China. In mid-1925, comrade Ngo Chinh Quoc - a member of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association went to Thailand to meet Mr. Dang Thuc Hua to convey the direction of comrade Ly Thuy (ie Nguyen Ai Quoc) on selecting a number of children of patriotic Vietnamese families there to send to Guangzhou (China) to study, preparing to build a communist youth organization in Vietnam. Le Huu Trong was one of eight selected teenagers.
Immediately after arriving in Guangzhou and throughout the years of receiving attentive care from food and accommodation, especially in daily training and study by comrade Vuong (ie Ly Thuy - Nguyen Ai Quoc), the entire group of teenagers demonstrated a spirit of effort in all their studies and activities.
The group of teenagers was brought by comrade Vuong into the "Vietnamese Young Pioneers" group, the first form of communist youth organization of the Vietnamese revolution, and directly educated and trained.
Comrade Vuong often discussed with his comrades in the Headquarters about Le Huu Trong, the youngest student in the group but intelligent, eager to learn, very active in training and having a sense of discipline in daily life.
Comrade Vuong and his comrades in the General Department planned to select a number of young people, including Le Huu Trong, to send to the Soviet Union for long-term training. To ensure the group's secret operations, all members of the group were given the surname Ly (the same surname as Ly Thuy - Nguyen Ai Quoc).
Le Huu Trong changed his name to Ly Tu Trong, and was later introduced by Nguyen Ai Quoc to attend high school in Guangzhou. Being intelligent, active, and resourceful, after a short time, Ly Tu Trong became fluent in Chinese and was appointed as a liaison for the General Department of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association in Guangzhou.
Revolutionary activities are bustling.
In April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek carried out a counter-revolution in Shanghai, China, killing thousands of communist party members and revolutionary workers. At the same time, he declared the establishment of a "National Government" to represent the interests of the big landlords and big comprador bourgeoisie in China.
When the Guangzhou Uprising broke out, Vietnamese comrades were studying at the headquarters of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association in Guangzhou and the Whampoa Military Academy, including Ly Tu Trong, participating in the revolutionary forces. After the uprising failed, the group of Vietnamese youth was arrested, and a number of soldiers and cadres of the Association temporarily returned to their country.
By mid-1929, the revolutionary situation had a new change. Communist organizations in Vietnam were born one after another. Ly Tu Trong was sent back to the country to work in Saigon - Cho Lon, participating in organizing rallies in Saigon, the Indochina Workers' Conference, and at the same time undertaking the task of domestic and international communication for the Southern Regional Party Committee.
Ly Tu Trong was given a special task, mobilizing and gathering young people in factories and schools to establish the Communist Youth Union. Under the alias Nguyen Huy, Ly Tu Trong applied to work as a coal factory worker in Saigon.
In 1930, when the Party Central Committee returned to Saigon, Ly Tu Trong worked with comrades Tran Phu and Ngo Gia Tu. At that time, Ly Tu Trong's task was to act as a liaison between the Party base on the international ship and the Southern Regional Party Committee, and to act as a liaison between the Southern Regional Party Committee and the Party chapters in Saigon - Cho Lon.
The Party Central Committee assigned Ly Tu Trong to study the youth situation in Saigon - Cho Lon to prepare for the establishment of the Communist Youth Union.
The big mirror of "Little Man"
On February 8, 1931, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Yen Bai uprising, the Southern Regional Party Committee organized a propaganda session calling for a worker-peasant alliance, demanding wage increases and reduced working hours. Comrade Phan Boi (alias Quang), who was in charge of propaganda for the Regional Party Committee at that time, was assigned to be the head of the organizing committee, and Ly Tu Trong was assigned to guard duty.
When the crowd finished watching the football match at the CIA stadium and just poured out into the street, comrade Phan Boi stood up to give a speech, the police rushed in, and the secret agent Legrand jumped in to arrest comrade Phan Boi. With no other choice, to save his comrade, Ly Tu Trong pulled out his gun and shot the secret agent down. Before that shocking event, the French colonialists tried their best to hunt him down and captured him alive.
After being captured by the French colonialists, Ly Tu Trong was taken to be tortured and detained in two places, Catinat police station and Saigon Central Prison. Despite being tortured extremely brutally, the enemy could not extract any information from him, only saying his name was Nguyen Huy.
After being imprisoned and tortured in Saigon Prison for a while without any results, they brought him to trial. Fearing the revolutionary movement, the French colonial government in Indochina held a criminal trial to try a Vietnamese communist soldier who was not yet 17 years old. Ly Tu Trong was sentenced to death.
During his last days in the beheading cell, Ly Tu Trong remained optimistic and loved life, believing in the victory of the revolution. Although he was chained, he still exercised every day, read The Tale of Kieu , and encouraged young people to uphold their revolutionary will. His indomitable spirit made the prison guards admire and marvel, they called him “Mr. Small”, “truly a man of steel”.
Forever "greetings returned"
On the evening of November 20, 1931, the prison guards quietly brought the guillotine to the door of the Great Prison.
At this time, the entire prison was in an uproar, with loud banging on the door, screams, and slogans from thousands of prisoners, including common criminals, echoed outside: "Down with the colonialists who executed Mr. Trong", "Down with the colonialists who murdered Nguyen Huy", "Free Ly Tu Trong".
The colonialists ordered the alarm, surrounded the Big Prison, and sent soldiers to storm the prisons to tie the hands and shackle the feet of the prisoners, but the screams still continued to ring out.
The death row cell door opened, and a group of soldiers with guns in their hands surrounded Ly Tu Trong. He calmly and leisurely walked, shouting loudly: “Long live the Indochinese Communist Party!” “Vietnam , long live independent Vietnam!” “Long live the success of the Vietnamese revolution !”
Prisoners in the prisons shouted in unison. A moment later, from the gate of Saigon's Great Prison, the sound echoed: " Arise, slaves of the world ! Rise, rise ... "
That is the greeting of Ly Tu Trong sent back to our compatriots and comrades.
The heroic sacrifice of Ly Tu Trong became a noble symbol of revolutionary heroism, a call for generations of Vietnamese youth to stand up and fight for national liberation and national reunification.
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