Thousands of people from across Vietnam have paid homage to the lateGeneral Vo Nguyen Giap at his final resting place in the centralprovince of Quang Binh.

The well-wisherstravelled from far and wide to pay their respects in the morning of May 7– exactly 60 years to the day that the Giap-led armed forces sealedvictory in the battle of Dien Bien Phu.

LieutenantColonel Phan Thanh Bong, head of the Roon Border Guard Post, said thatbetween April 30 and May 7, over 95,000 people visited the General’sgrave in the Vung Chua – Dao Yen area of the province.

Theprovincial Border Guards High Command has dispatched more personnel toensure security in the area, while civil forces have been sent to guidevisitors.

On the same morning, officials from the provincialPeople’s Committee, Military High Command and Border Guards offeredincense to General Giap, who passed away in Hanoi on October, 2013. Hewas born in Quang Binh’s Le Thuy district on August 25, 1911.

In his long and esteemed career, General Giap served as a Politburomember, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Standing DeputyPrime Minister, Minister of National Defence, Commander-in-Chief of theVietnamese People’s Army and a National Assembly deputy from the firstto seventh tenure.

He was the commander of the Dien Bien Phu campaign, which occurred between March and May 1954.
The victory of the campaign led to the signing of the 1954Geneva Accord in which France agreed to withdraw its forces from itscolonies in Indochina.-VNA