Major General Nguyen Xuan Kien, head of the Military Medical Department and head of the project’s Scientific Council, speaks at the meeting (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of National Defence is carrying out aproject to build a process collecting and handling data on martyrs who lackedinformation.
The Policy Department under the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’sArmy and the Military Medical Department under the General Department ofLogistics convened a meeting to assess the implementation of the project inHanoi on January 5.
At the event, Major General Nguyen Xuan Kien, head of the Military Medical Departmentand head of the project’s Scientific Council, said the project is one of thefour contents of a larger project on building processes to identify remains ofmartyrs who lacked information hosted by the Military Medical Department incollaboration of the Military Forensic Department and the Policy Department.
The three other contents are processes to collect samples, determine genes andbuild software to handle information on fallen soldiers who lacked information.
To date, the project has basically been completed and may be taken over atgrassroots-level. After that, a defence ministry-level take-over report will becompleted so that the project is applied widely across the country,contributing to identifying remains of martyrs.
Major General Tran Quoc Dung, head of the Policy Department and chairman of theproject, said this project came from the significance and importance of the identificationof remains of fallen soldiers who lacked information and the current managementof martyrs’ graves in the country.
Other members of the council assessed that the implementation of the project isextremely urgent and necessary to serve the identification of remains ofmartyrs who lacked information, meeting the aspiration of their relatives andcontributing to creating socio-political stability and a momentum for thecurrent national construction and defence.
During more than half a century of struggling for national independence, constructionand defence, and doing international missions, nearly 1.2 million officers,soldiers and people sacrificed their lives. To date, units and localitiesnationwide have found and repatriated about 900,000 remains.
According to data, among 871,373 fallen soldiers’ graves in martyrs cemeteriesacross the country, only 15,493 have full information.-VNA
The Policy Department under the General Political Department of the Vietnam People’sArmy and the Military Medical Department under the General Department ofLogistics convened a meeting to assess the implementation of the project inHanoi on January 5.
At the event, Major General Nguyen Xuan Kien, head of the Military Medical Departmentand head of the project’s Scientific Council, said the project is one of thefour contents of a larger project on building processes to identify remains ofmartyrs who lacked information hosted by the Military Medical Department incollaboration of the Military Forensic Department and the Policy Department.
The three other contents are processes to collect samples, determine genes andbuild software to handle information on fallen soldiers who lacked information.
To date, the project has basically been completed and may be taken over atgrassroots-level. After that, a defence ministry-level take-over report will becompleted so that the project is applied widely across the country,contributing to identifying remains of martyrs.
Major General Tran Quoc Dung, head of the Policy Department and chairman of theproject, said this project came from the significance and importance of the identificationof remains of fallen soldiers who lacked information and the current managementof martyrs’ graves in the country.
Other members of the council assessed that the implementation of the project isextremely urgent and necessary to serve the identification of remains ofmartyrs who lacked information, meeting the aspiration of their relatives andcontributing to creating socio-political stability and a momentum for thecurrent national construction and defence.
During more than half a century of struggling for national independence, constructionand defence, and doing international missions, nearly 1.2 million officers,soldiers and people sacrificed their lives. To date, units and localitiesnationwide have found and repatriated about 900,000 remains.
According to data, among 871,373 fallen soldiers’ graves in martyrs cemeteriesacross the country, only 15,493 have full information.-VNA
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