Trần Nam Trung

{{Short description|Vietnamese general}}

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| birth_name = Trần Khuy

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| office = Defence Minister of Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam

| term_start = 1969

| term_end = 1976

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| primeminister = Huỳnh Tấn Phát

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|1|6|df=y}}

| birth_place = Mộ Đức, Quảng Ngãi, Annam (French protectorate)

| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|5|10|1912|1|6|df=y}}

| death_place = Hà Nội, Việt Nam

| party = Communist Party of Vietnam

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Trần Nam Trung (born Trần Khuy) (1912–2009) was a colonel-general in the People's Army of Vietnam active during the First Indochina War and Vietnam War. He was the unique Defence Minister of Republic of South Vietnam.

Early years

Trần Nam Trung was born Trần Khuy in a peasant family in Mộ Đức district, Quảng Ngãi province of the Annam Protectorate, French Indochina in 1912. He joined the Communist Party of Annam in 1927, then the Indochinese Communist Party in 1931.{{cite web |title=Colonel General Trần Nam Trung |url=https://thanhtra.gov.vn/xem-chi-tiet/-/asset_publisher/Content/thuong-tuong-tran-nam-trung-nguyen-chu-nhiem-uy-ban-thanh-tra-chinh-phu?5923049 |website=thanhtra.gov.vn |access-date=5 May 2024}}

Career

After {{ill|Ba Tơ uprising|vi|Khởi nghĩa Ba Tơ}}, Trần Nam Trung was appointed to Secretary of the Quảng NgãiBình Định Provincial Party Committee. After August uprising, he held the position of political commissar of {{ill|War Zone 5|vi|Khu 5}} and Buôn HồAn Khê front.{{cite web |title=Ex-chief of Government Inspectorate: Trần Nam Trung|url=https://vov.vn/xa-hoi/nguyen-chu-nhiem-uy-ban-thanh-tra-chinh-phu-tran-nam-trung-tu-tran-111772.vov |website=vov.vn |date=12 May 2009 |access-date=5 May 2024}}

Since 1976, Trần Nam Trung left military, was appointed to Chief of Government Inspectorate and kept the position till he retired in 1982. He was promoted to Major General in 1962, and Colonel General in 1974.

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