President Ho Chi Minh was the supreme commander of the historic Dien Bien Phu Campaign. Throughout the campaign, he chaired and attended many meetings of the Politburo to assess the situation on the battlefield and give instructions to the battling forces. He did this not only at Dien Bien Phu, but on other battlegrounds across the country to gain the victory at Dien Bien Phu.
The 56 days and nights in the Dien Bien basin are considered part of the flesh and blood of the soldiers who “cut through mountains, slept in trenches, got drenched in forests, and ate rice balls” during the 1954 campaign. Le Gia Tuat is a veteran of this battle.
66 years ago, Vietnam became famous throughout the world for the Dien Bien Phu Victory which “resounded throughout the five continents and was world-shaking”. The Dien Bien Phu Victory on May 7, 1954 is considered a “golden milestone” in the country’s history of national construction and protection, and expressed the Vietnamese people’s courage, wisdom, and invincible strength under Ho Chi Minh.
The Pathet Lao newspaper hailed Vietnam’s Dien Bien Phu Victory over French colonial rule as a source of national pride in an article published on May 6.
66 years after the glorious Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954 - May 7, 2020), the Muong Thanh valley, onced a fierce battlefield with the sacrifices of many heroic people, is gradually reviving and changing day by day. The lives of the ethnic minorities in the Northwest are improving.
In 1953, eight years after reinvading Indochina, despite having mobilised huge economic and military resources, the French colonialists failed to achieve their purpose of destroying the revolutionary government and resistance forces to reestablish their rule throughout Indochina. On the contrary, they suffered heavy losses: 390,000 troops.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc held a working session with the High Command of Air Force and Air Defence in Hanoi on April 29, on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30), the 130th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19), and 66th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu victory (May 7).
The Military Command of Dien Bien Phu city in the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien announced on April 22 that a bomb weighing over 100kg left over from the war had been deactivated safely.
The Border Guard Command in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien on April 21 handed over "houses of gratitude" to 65 families living in extremely difficult circumstances in Chung Chai commune, Muong Nhe district.
Ho Chi Minh City police said on March 20 that they had cracked down on a drug trafficking ring, seizing 50 bricks of heroin and 35kg of synthetic drug.
Police in the northern midland province of Phu Tho have detained three men and seized 7kg of methamphetamine smuggled from the northwestern border province of Dien Bien.
Two men and their 12 accomplices on March 18 got prison terms ranging from two years to life for their roles in a case of acting for the subversion of the people’s administration and covering criminals in Muong Nhe district, the northwestern province of Dien Bien.
The Military Command of Dien Bien Phu city in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on March 7 successfully deactivated more than 300kg of ammunitions and explosives unearthed in the relic site of the Dien Bien Phu stronghold.
The Japanese Government will provide a non-refundable assistance worth more than 482,000 USD for a project on women and child trafficking prevention in mountainous and remote areas of the northwestern border province of Dien Bien.
The Military Command of the northwestern province of Dien Bien on February 14 said it had defused a bomb measuring more than 1.4 m in length and about 340 kg in weight.
It was early in the morning when Nam Vi commune was still engulfed in fog, when villagers woke up and gathered to say goodbye to soldiers from Battalion 1, Regiment 741, the provincial Military Command.
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