Xin cháo (sin yau)

Good afternoon everybody.

My name is Madame Nhu. I was born in 1924, in one of the richest families in Vietnam.

My full name is Tran Le Xua or “Beautiful spring”

During in for my life’s my parents tried on several occasions to formalize my marriage, but I
resisted until 1943, when I chose to marry a friend of family, named Ngo Dinh Nhu, and he was
fifteen years older than me.

My husband was from a prominent Hue family of Roman Catholics who opposed both French
colonial rule.

In 1946, communist troops overran Hue, and they took my mother in law, my baby and me as
prisioners. Then we were rescued four months later by the French army.

Between the year 1947 and 1953 it was era that I called “happy time”, in which I had three more
children and live quietly.

On October 25, 1955 my brother-in-law was named president when he won with 98.2% of the
votes, that's why my husband and I moved to the Presidential Palace. I was also named the first
official lady.
On August 21, 1963, I managed to persuade my husband and he ordered special forces to attack
a Buddhist pagoda resulting in two hours of fighting and more than a hundred monks arrested.
After this event, I declared to the media that it was the happiest day of my life.

Because of this, one month later, my husband and brother-in-law were killed in a coup while my
children and I were traveling to Europe and America. In the same way the new government
revoked my diplomatic passport, so my children and I returned to Vietnam and after all we had to
live poorly the rest of my life.

Now the winning question.

What would I have changed if I had been born again?
1. If I had used my political power for helping to my country, I wouldn’t have lived poorly the
rest of my life.
2. If I hadn’t created a female paramilitary body, I wouldn’t have been considered a bad
person.
3. If I hadn’t traveled to Europe and America, my children and I would have been killed in the
coup.
4. If I had respected the buddhist monks, they wouldn’t have been burnt alive by
themselves.
5. If I hand’t managed to persuade my husband of attack a buddihist pagoda they wouldn’t
have been killed.

Do you have a question?

Thank you for your attention.
Cám ơn!