HCM City leaders pay tribute to martyrs ahead of National Reunification Day
A delegation of leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee on April 27 paid tribute to martyrs at the city cemetery for heroic martyrs on the occasion of the National Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day (May 1).
Ho Chi Minh City leaders pay tribute to martyrs at the city cemetery for heroic martyrs (Photo: VNA)
HCM City(VNA) – A delegation of leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, People’sCouncil, People’s Committee and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee on April 27 paidtribute to martyrs at the city cemetery for heroic martyrs on the occasion ofthe National Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day (May 1).
The delegation, led bySecretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen, spent a minute ofsilence in memory of the heroic martyrs who laid down their lives for theindependence and freedom of the Fatherland and happiness of the people.
They laid flowers andlightened incense in each grave to commemorate the martyrs.
After that, the cityleaders paid tribute to late leaders of the city in different period andrevolutionaries who made outstanding contributions to the national constructionand defence at the municipal cemetery in Thu Duc city.
HCM City leaders pay tribute to martyrs ahead of National Reunification Day (Photo: VNA)
Also on April 27, theyoffered flowers to President Ho Chi Minh at the Ho Chi Minh Museum’sbranch in the city and the President Ho Chi Minh Monument Park in District 1.
The same day, thedelegation also offered incense to martyrs at Ben Duoc Martyrs’ Monument in CuChi district, in which 45,693 martyrs who died during the war against Franceand the US are being commemorated.
The delegation also commemoratedmartyrs at local martyr cemeteries, as well as Heroic Vietnamese Mother andHero of the People’s Armed Forces Nguyen Thi Ranh at her monument in Cu Chi./.
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Ho Chi Minh City leaders pay tribute to martyrs at the city cemetery for heroic martyrs (Photo: VNA) 
HCM City leaders pay tribute to martyrs ahead of National Reunification Day (Photo: VNA) 
