Headquarters of former Party committees named national relic site
Headquarters of former southern Party committees named national relic site
The headquarters of the former Party Committees at civil, political and Party agencies of the Central Bureau for South Vietnam in Chang Riec forest of Tan Bien district, Tay Ninh province, have been recognised as a national historical relic site.
The relic site certificate is presented on August 5 (Photo: VNA)
Tay Ninh (VNA) – The headquartersof the former Party committees at civil, political and Party agencies of theCentral Bureau for South Vietnam in Chang Riec forest of Tan Bien district, TayNinh province, have been recognised as a national historical relic site.
The relic site certificate was presented to theliaison board of the Party committees’ resistance tradition club on August 5.
Nguyen Van Khoi, a representative of the liaisonboard, said during the war against the US, the Central Bureau for SouthVietnam, led by the Party Central Committee to steer revolutionary activitiesin the south, assigned the Party committees at its civil, political and Partyagencies to be in charge of Party building work.
In the spring of 1968, the Party committeescalled on all Party members and locals to join people and soldiers across thesouth to wage the General Offensive and Uprising to attack the US puppetgovernment’s headquarters in Saigon, forcing the US to join the Parisconference for peace in Vietnam and then withdraw from southern Vietnam in1973.
Under the leadership of the Central Bureau forSouth Vietnam, the Party committees at its civil, political and Party agenciesdirected preparations for the Ho Chi Minh Campaign, helping liberate the southand reunify the nation on April 30, 1975.
In April 1977, the Party Committees weredissolved as they had fulfilled their tasks, Khoi noted.
In 2014, the resistance tradition club’s liaisonboard built a centre in commemoration of the Party Committees. The centre isdedicated to more than 10,000 Party members and soldiers of 24 boards andsectors of the central bureau, along with more than 2,000 soldiers who died inthe area.-VNA
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The relic site certificate is presented on August 5 (Photo: VNA) 
