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Website providing database on martyrs debuts this month

A website providing a database on war martyrs and their graves will be launched on December 22, the 73rd founding day of the Vietnam People’s Army, a unit of the Ministry of Information and Communications announced on December 12.
Website providing database on martyrs debuts this month ảnh 1Illustrative image. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – A websiteproviding a database on war martyrs and their graves will be launched onDecember 22, the 73rd founding day of the Vietnam People’s Army, a unitof the Ministry of Information and Communications announced on December 12.

The Vietnam National Institute of Softwareand Digital Content Industry has deployed supercomputers to collate informationon martyrs from the database of the Ministry of National Defence’s policydepartment, significantly reducing time taken to locate documents about martyrsand identify remains.

The institute has coordinated with otherbodies of the Ministry of Information and Communications, such as the Authorityof Information Technology Application, the Department of Information Technologyand the Information Centre to build an information network and a nationaldatabase on the issue.

It has also unified the database of theMinistries of National Defence, and Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs todevelop a website which allows citizens to search for martyrs’ information andreceive information from citizens.

According tolabour minister Dao Ngoc Dung, about 200,000 sets of remains scatteredacross southern provinces, Laos and Cambodia haven’t been collected, whileanother 300,000 sets of remains that have been reburied in martyrs’ cemeterieslack information to make an accurate identification. -VNA 
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