According to Nguyen Tan Tuan, chairman of the Khanh Hoa People’s Committee, the second phase of Gac Ma Memorial Site was initially approved with a total area of 25,000 square metres. It will include greenery, exhibition space and memorial areas.
Gac Ma Memorial Site
In the coming time, the province will co-operate with the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour to recoup some 3,000 square metres adjacent to the sea for the expansion of the site’s second phase. The land plot was previously allocated to a business.
Local authorities will work with the business to ensure that suitable compensation was provided, Tuan added.
The first phase of the VND130 billion (USD5.5m) Gac Ma Memorial Site was put into use in July 2017.
Khanh Hoa and the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour agreed to build the site’s second phase.
The memorial site is dedicated to 64 soldiers killed in the battle to defend Vietnam’s Gac Ma island in the Spratly Archipelago in 1988.
