Đài tưởng niệm Liệt sĩ Phường Mai Dịch
The Mai Dich Ward Martyrs' Memorial is a cemetery in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, built in 1956 and covering 59,000 square metres. Here lie 1,228 soldiers and 394 notable figures. The 394 include party, state and government leaders as well as scientists, authors and military officials.
State president Ton Duc Thang rests here, as do prime ministers Pham Van Dong and Pham Hung. General secretaries Le Duan, Truong Chinh and Le Kha Phieu lie in the same ground. Graves go to senior officials managed by the Politburo, revolutionary veterans before 1945, and recipients of the Ho Chi Minh Prize.
Visitors come through the year to offer incense and flowers, many of them relatives and friends of the dead. Crowds are largest on 27 July, War Invalids and Martyrs' Day. And when party general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was buried, people lined Hanoi's streets to bid him farewell in national mourning.
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