Please answer the following question: Facts: - residence: hanoi - caption: nguyen manh tuong - birth name: nguyen manh tuong - citizenship: vietnam - death date: june 13 , 1997 - education: university of montpellier - birth date: 1909 - name: nguyen manh tuong - image size: 260px - nationality: vietnam - image: nguyen manh tuong.jpg - death place: hanoi Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of nguyen manh tuong .
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nguyen manh tuong -lrb- 1909 -- 1997 -rrb- was a vietnamese lawyer and intellectual .he was known to be one of the active participators in the nhan van affair in the mid-1950s which saw many middle class intellectuals demanding freedom and democracy in communist-led north vietnam .after he criticised the disastrous land reform campaign in 1956 , he was stripped of all positions he held in the government and was forced to retire from practicing law .