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Symposium recalls Spring 1968 Uprising in Can Tho

Cultural researchers and war veterans again assessed the significance of the Spring 1968 Uprising at a symposium held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on December 20.
Symposium recalls Spring 1968 Uprising in Can Tho ảnh 1At the symposium (Source: vov.vn)

Can Tho (VNA) – Cultural researchersand war veterans again assessed the significance of the Spring 1968 Uprising ata symposium held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on December 20.

Pham Van Hieu, Deputy Secretary of the Can Tho city Party Committee, said thatLo Vong Cung (arc-shaped road) which stretches 30km from Cai Rang town to BaSe-Giao Dan in O Mon district was the fiercest battlefield in former Can Thoprovince during the Spring 1968 Uprising.

Despite disadvantages in numbers and weapon, Can Tho people and army liberatedfour key communes with 10,000 people, he said.

Hien noted that Lo Vong Cung has been recognised as a national heritage site andall wards and communes along the road have been honoured with the title of Heroof the People’s Armed Forces. 

Many delegates at the symposium proposed tapping tourism potential of relicsites along Lo Vong Cung to turn the road into a “green tourism belt.”

During the anti-US resistance war, LoVong Cung served as the enemy’sdefensive area to protect the headquarters of the IV Corps Tactical Zone, TraNoc Airport and representative offices of the US and its puppet government inCan Tho. 

Within the framework of the symposium, there is an exhibition displaying 231objects and 37 photos on the uprising of soldiers and people of Can Tho in thespring 1968.-VNA
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