National funeral honor for Giap
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Vietnam yesterday announced plans to hold a national funeral for independence hero General Vo Nguyen Giap in the first official statement on the death of the brilliant military strategist.
Giap, who died on Friday aged 102 and who was lauded as a genius for guerrilla tactics that defeated both the French and American armies, will be honored with two days of national mourning, the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party said.
“A national funeral has been decided for General Giap,” the statement, released some 24 hours after the self-taught soldier died, said. A national funeral is the country’s highest honor — above a state ceremony.
His body will lie in state at the national funeral house in Hanoi on October 12, the Central Committee statement said, before being buried the following day.
Giap, second only to late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh as modern Vietnam’s most revered figure, was the founding father of the Vietnam People’s Army.
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