Le Duc Anh was born in central Vietnam on Dec. 1, 1920, when the country was under French colonial rule. In 1938, he joined the Vietnamese Communist Party founded by Ho Chi Minh and fought the ...

Le Duc Anh was born in central Vietnam in 1920, when the country was under French colonial rule. In 1938, he joined the Vietnamese Communist Party founded by Ho Chi Minh and fought the French from ...

HANOI (AFP) - General Le Duc Anh, a Communist party hardliner and former Vietnamese president who led the invasion of Cambodia which led to the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, has died aged 99.