Dương Quỳnh Hoa

[3][4] Early in 1968 when the Tet Offensive broke out, Hoa and her husband, a mathematician, fled Saigon to a NLF hideout in the jungle.

Although she never recovered from the personal loss, she put on a brave face in an interview with American journalist Stanley Karnow, quipping that her son was "only one among millions".

"[2] Hoa also attacked the cadres who later moved into the south after the reunification, who she felt were inattentive to southern regional characteristics and sensitivities.

"[7] At the time, the failure of the rice harvest and declining food rations had seen record levels of malnutrition at the hospital that she ran.

"[8] Talking of the corruption practiced by the officials and their wives, she said that it was equivalent to what occurred in South Vietnam: "This is very much a feudal society, whatever its ideological veneer.