Bui Thi Cuc (1930-1951)

Bui Thi Cuc, whose real name was Tran Thi Lan, was born in 1930 in Van Mac village, Van Du commune, An Thi district. Born in a poor and heavily indebted family, the father-orphaned child - Bui Thi Cuc was sent to a family living in the next village to be adopted child for debt payment.

After the August Revolution, her brothers enrolled in the army or worked in the local government. She worked for the local government, and then was selected staff of An Thi district Women Union. In 1947-1950, the French Colonialists took the control of southern districts in Hung Yen province. With the support of its reactionaries, French army established a number of military stations, raided and robbed villagers. In Canh Lam post, Nguyen Doan Nhi – a traitor, together with his brother and brother-in-law, who was the head of that post and worked in Deuxième Bureau, used many cruel methods to kill revolutionary officers and suppress local people. She was assigned by An Thi Communist Party to return to her village and carry out trading activities in Canh Lam market to do espionage task by distinguishing as a betrayer.

Suffering from the sneer and bad words of her family and villagers, she tried to make friends with Nhi and pretended to love him in order to get information concerning the activities of the enemy and reported to her leaders. She persuaded Nhi to accept De - her lover - as well as the secret police as their informer and to provide De a license to go back and forth Canh Lam post. After several failures in their raid, they suspected Cuc and De. Given that context, the leaders requested them to kill Nhi in Van Mac village and then withdraw. To carry out this task, she arranged to meet only Nhi in Van Mac village and killed him.

Finding out that Nhi was missing, soldiers in Canh Lam post raided and arrested all men in the village, destroyed all houses in the village. On the way to escape, she was arrested with other people of neighbouring village. Suffering from their tortures, she took all of claims and did not betray her comrades and supporting villagers.

Admitting that they could not defeat her will and spirit, on May 15^th, 1950, the French killed her on the dyke of Luc Dien River. Her sacrifice became the symbol of brave communists. Uncle Ho granted her the title "Live bravely and die honorably"

In 1995, Bui Thi Cuc was bestowed the title "The hero of People's Police".