The mission was led by Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong, member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Defense Minister, and Deputy Head of National Steering Committee 515.
Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong and the mission offered incense and laid flower at President Ho Chi Minh's and General Vo Nguyen Giap's commemorative houses and the War Cemetery of Dak Lak province in commemoration of fallen soldiers and presented gifts to and encouraged the province’s Team K51, who is in charge of searching and collecting martyrs’ remains.
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The mission pays tribute to fallen soldiers at the War Cemetery of Dak Lak province. |
At the meeting, Senior Colonel Duong Hoang Toan, Deputy Political Chief and Standing Deputy Head of MR5’s Steering Committee 515, reported on the results of search, collection, and identification of martyrs’ remains in 2022.
Up to now, provinces, cities, and units in the area of MR5 have reviewed 154,936 out of 239,993 pieces of information related to martyrs. MR5’s Steering Committee 515 has advised the Ministry of National Defense to continue to direct units in the whole military to provide the list of fallen soldiers who died and were initially buried in localities in MR5, Southern Laos’ provinces (Attapeu, Sekong, Champasack) and Northeastern Cambodia’s provinces (Mondulkiri, Ratanakiri, Stung Treng, Preah Vihear) for units to complete the profile, list of martyrs, and conduct the search and collection and guided them to carry out the mission.
Addressing the meeting, Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong agreed with report of the military region’s Steering Committee 515 and highly appreciated the delegates’ opinions, which clearly clarified the results and pointed out shortcomings in directing and organizing the search, collection, and identification of martyrs' remains.
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Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong speaks at the meeting with Military Region 5 and the Dak Lak provincial Military Command. |
Mentioning difficulties that may confront the search and collection in the coming time, the deputy defense minister asked MR5’s Party Committee and Chain-of-Command and its Steering Committee 515 and Dak Lak province’s Steering Committee 515 to continue to thoroughly study guidelines, policies, and guiding circulars of the Party, State, Government and Ministry of National Defense on the search, collection, and identification of martyrs' remains.
He urged MR5’s Steering Committee 515 to continue to enhance the role and responsibility of local Party Committees and authorities in managing and directing the search, collection, and identification of martyrs' remains and promoting the effectiveness of information dissemination and participation of the whole political system, organizations, and individuals, especially war veterans, in the work.
Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong requested units to continue to focus on reviewing and completing documents, draw a map on burial places of fallen soldiers, and step up activities to search for and gather martyrs' remains.
Regarding proposals by Steering Committee 515 of MR5 and Dak Lak province, Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong assigned the Department of Policies under the General Department of Political Affairs to note and well study before making recommendations to the defense leaders to consider and solve them.
Translated by Tran Hoai