Incense offering in tribute to President Ho Chi Minh, martyrs State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on May 20 offered incense and flowers to late President Ho Chi Minh and heroic martyrs at Nga Ba Giong memorial and Gieng nuoc hospital relic site in Hoc Mon district, Ho Chi Minh City on May 20 on the occasion of the late leader’s 131st birthday (May 19).
Hoc Mon district has been popular with the uprising of the 18 Vuon Trau (Areca Garden) hamlets against the French colonists in 1885, which later spread to other southern localities. However, it was cruelly suppressed by the French colonists.
In August 1941, the French administration arrested and sent several leaders of the Southern Regional Party Committee, including Nguyen Van Cu, Vo Van Tan, Phan Dang Luu, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai and others, to the firing squad.
The statue of President Ho Chi Minh at the Peace Park in Havana (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Representatives from the
Vietnamese Embassy in Cuba and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the
Peoples (ICAP) laid a wreath at the statue of President Ho Chi Minh at the Peace
Park in Havana on the occasion of the Vietnamese leader’s 131st birthday (May 19).
Addressing the ceremony, Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba
Le Thanh Tung noted that the late Vietnamese leader s birthday coincides with the 126th anniversary of the fall in
combat of
Cuban National Hero José Martí, and the two
historical figures share many similarities, such as the passion for freedom of their respective