Celebrating 25th South Liberation Day
Meeting in Can Tho.
Many activities took place nationwide marking the 25th anniversary of
the liberation of the south. A
solemn meeting was held at the Ba Dinh Hall in Hanoi on April 29.
Can Tho province organised a meeting and parade to cerebrate its 25th
liberation day on April 29.
The Hanoi Municipal Party Committee, the People's Committee, the
People's Council and the Fatherland
Front held a meeting of soldiers who fought in the Anti-US Resistance
War on April 27.
Ms Truong My Hoa, deputy chairwoman of the National Assembly;
lieutenant general Le Hai, deputy
director of the Army Political General Department; Mr Le Quang Vinh,
director of the Governmental
Religious Committee; Mr Vu Oanh, former Politburo member, and
representatives from the Ministry of
Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs and 621 war veterans in Hanoi
attended the meeting.
The war veterans expressed their sincere thanks to the city's Party
organisations and authorities for their
great attention. They said they promised to develop further the
revolutionary tradition of Uncle Ho's
soldiers, making contributions to building Hanoi into a prosperous
and civilised capital.
Also on April 27, the Municipal Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Youth
Union in Ho Chi Minh City held a
traditional meeting for former cadres of the Union. Hundreds of
representatives, who are former
members of the Union from the Anti-US Resistance War, and young
people participated in the meeting.
The participants reviewed the difficult but heroic struggle of the
young people during the war. Developing
further the revolutionary tradition, 240 young people of the city
today are trying their best in studying and
exerting themselves to make contributions to the process of
industrialisation and modernisation.
On the same day, a meeting of revolutionary veterans with the
participation of 170 representatives was
held in Thua Thien-Hue by the province's Association of Patriotic
Prisoners.
On April 28, Mr Pham The Duyet, permanent standing member of the
Politburo and chairman of the
Presidium of the Fatherland Central Committee cordially met a
delegation of generations from the 673
Liberation Anti-aircraft Division (now the 673 Anti-aircraft Brigade,
the Army Corps II), the first
anti-aircraft division of the Liberation Army of Southern Vietnam
established at the Tri Thien battlefield
on March 29, 1973.
Mr Duyet spoke highly of the great contributions by officers and men
of the division in protecting the Tri
Thien liberated area. The division shot down many enemy fighters,
participating in liberating Hue, Da
Nang, Phan Rang, Phan Thiet and in the historical Ho Chi Minh campaign.
The same day, in Bay Bau hamlet, Tan Lap village, Tan Bien district,
Tay Ninh province, the Public
Security Ministry held a 'Return to Root' meeting. Mr Le Minh Huong,
politburo member and public
security minister; local leaders, revolutionary cadres of the public
security sector and representatives of
the sector from provinces from Quang Tri to Ca Mau participated in
the meeting.
Earlier, leaders of the ministry and Tay Ninh province burned incense
to commemorate the heroic martyrs
and held an exhumation ceremony for 11 recently-found remains of
martyrs from the R Security
Committee and brought them to the Heroes Cemetery.
A get-together of former Con Dao political prisoners in Hanoi was
held on April 28 to mark the 25th Con
Dao Liberation Day.
Military Region 1 and Military Region 2 held solemn meetings to
celebrate the 25th south liberation day
and national unification.
A solemn meeting was also be held at Nhan Dan Newspaper to mark the
south liberation day, April 30,
and the international labour day, May 1. Participants to the meeting
observed a minute's silence in
memory of the people and soldiers including Nhan Dan journalists who
died for national independence
and freedom.
The Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee and Vietnam
Fatherland Front Committee
of Quang Tri province paid a floral tribute to heroic martyrs at
Truong Son and Road 9 National
Cemeteries on April 28.
The same day, Quang Tri held a ceremony to bestow posthumously Heroic
Vietnamese Mother titles for
54 women whose husbands and sons died in the two struggles.
The southern province of Dong Nai held a meeting to celebrate its
25th liberation day and 25th south
liberation day and national unification.
After the meeting there were demonstrations and parades by provincial
armed forces and people.
The Hanoi Women's Union held a meeting of women who participated in
the Ho Chi Minh campaign.
__________________________________
KOMINFORM
P.O. Box 66
00841 Helsinki - Finland
+358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.kominf.pp.fi
___________________________________
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subscribe/unsubscribe messages
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
___________________________________
