The Hội An Ward Military Command is asking veterans and residents for information on where fighters killed in the 1968 Tet offensive may have been buried, Tuổi Trẻ reported on October 22.
The command is looking for suspected mass burial sites linked to attacks by two battalions of the Quảng Đà Front 4 on the former Engineer Compound and Chi Lăng Camp. The compound is now the town's park area, bounded by Trần Hưng Đạo, Phạm Hồng Thái and Lý Thường Kiệt streets. The camp is thought to have stood near Lý Nam Đế Street.
Tuổi Trẻ quotes Đinh Văn Lời, 76, who led the local special forces unit in 1968, as believing that the dead were buried together at these sites, though he could not pinpoint the spots. The article gives no total for those killed.
The appeal is part of a "500-day-and-night" campaign to find, collect and identify remains. Information can go to the Hội An Ward Military Command at 82 Trần Hưng Đạo, or to the nearest government or military office. No deadline was given.
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