Vietnam buries remains of 731 war dead nearly 6 decades after the Tet Offensive
Forensic teams identified the remains after decades of searches, and families gathered as authorities completed one of Vietnam’s largest postwar burials.
- On Wednesday, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung attended a memorial service at Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City, honoring 731 fallen soldiers unearthed nearly six decades after the 1968 Tet Offensive.
- Excavations at the former Do Thanh Cemetery site uncovered 731 sets of remains buried in mass graves during and after the 1968 fighting between North Vietnamese forces and U.S.-backed South Vietnamese troops.
- Architect Nguyen Xuan Thang spent nearly eight years comparing military maps, satellite images, and witness accounts to locate the burial site, narrowing his search to the park by May 2026.
- Authorities identified one soldier, squad leader Huynh Van Quen, using a faded military document found in a wallet among the remains and DNA samples matching his relatives.
- About 175,000 Vietnamese soldiers remain unrecovered, while the government pursues a 500-day campaign through July 2027 to locate 7,000 sets of remains and provide closure to families searching for decades.
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The remains of the military, fallen during the 1968 campaign, were found by chance in mass graves in a Ho Chi Minh park this summer. It took three months of work to search for the remains, most were not identified. Thousands of people at the parade...
Vietnam buries remains of dead from mass grave
Thousands carrying white flowers lined the roads in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City yesterday as the remains of 731 people believed to have been killed during the 1968 Tet Offensive were taken for burial nearly six decades after their deaths.Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung attended the memorial se
731 remains recovered from mass grave – The Horn News
Thousands carrying white flowers lined the roads in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday as the remains of 731 people believed to have been killed during the 1968 Tet Offensive were taken for burial nearly six decades after their deaths. Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung attended the memorial services... Read More The post 731 remains recovered from mass grave appeared first on The Horn News - Proudly American, Fiercely Independent.
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