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View all search resultsLegendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap dies
Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taughtgeneral who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it from colonial rule andlater forced the Americans to abandon their grueling effort to save the countryfrom communism, has died
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o Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taughtgeneral who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it from colonial rule andlater forced the Americans to abandon their grueling effort to save the countryfrom communism, has died. At age 102, he was the last of Vietnam's old-guardrevolutionaries.
Giap died Friday evening in a military hospital in the capital of Hanoi where he had spent close to four years growing weaker and suffering from long illnesses, a government official and a person close to Giap said. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because his death had not been formally announced.
The was no word of the death in state-controlled media late Friday, but the news had spread widely in Facebook and other social media. Giap was a national hero whose legacy was second only to that of his mentor, founding President Ho Chi Minh, who led the country to independence
