35 soldiers found in Vietnam War mass grave

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HANOI (AFP) — Searchers discovered a mass grave of 35 North Vietnamese soldiers killed at a military airport during Vietnam's 1968 Tet offensive, a military official said Sunday.

The remains were discovered Saturday in a search of the former Vinh Long army airport, said the head of the provincial military command's political department, Vo Hieu Hoa.

"We had the names and addresses of all of them, but could not identify who is who," Hoa told AFP, adding that the search for the 35 began in the 1980s.

He said several more bodies of soldiers killed by American troops when they tried to occupy the airport had still to be found.

[old mark]

1. The NVA often buried their own soldiers in unmarked mass graves.

I'm somehow not sure that every terrible thing in that war was done by our side, nor did all the lies come from us.

mark

[geckosfeet]

2. War is a dirty brutal horrific business. To expect anything else from war is insane.

All side involved commit atrocities. Amid the chaos it is lost to history.