General Phan Van Giang offers incense to heroic martyrs at Le Thi Rieng Park

On the morning of July 25, a delegation led by General Phan Van Giang - Member of the Politburo, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense - came to offer flowers and incense to heroic martyrs at Le Thi Rieng Park (Hoa Hung ward, Ho Chi Minh City).

Here, the working delegation offered flowers and incense at the statue of the late General Secretary Tran Phu and the Stele to commemorate the heroic martyrs who sacrificed in the General Offensive and Uprising of Spring Mau Than 1968.

The delegation also came to offer incense at the martyrs' remains house, where Heroic Martyr Le Thi Rieng and Heroic Martyr Tran Van Kieu are worshiped in the park.

After the incense offering ceremony, General Phan Van Giang and the working delegation inspected the scene, listened to reports on the progress of searching for and repatriating martyrs' remains; visited, encouraged and presented gifts to officers, soldiers and forces directly on duty.

Previously, through the process of verification and comparison of historical documents combined with the opinions of witnesses, the Le Thi Rieng Park area was identified as a place of mass burial for many officers and soldiers who bravely sacrificed themselves in the General Offensive and Uprising of Spring Mau Than 1968.

From July 6, Ho Chi Minh City has deployed the work of searching, repatriating and identifying martyrs' remains in the park area.

As of the end of July 24, the search and repatriation force of martyrs' remains of the Ho Chi Minh City Command has repatriated 101 sets of martyrs' remains and 5 sets of collective martyrs' remains in the Le Thi Rieng Park area.

The Ho Chi Minh City Command said that in the coming time, the search force will continue to expand the scope of survey and excavation at Le Thi Rieng Park to search for and repatriate the remains of the remaining martyrs.

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