The event was as part of a program to alleviate the pain of the Vietnam war.
The sombre service was attended by a large number of monks, nuns, Buddhist followers and local people and paid tribute the Son My victims and all those who gave for the cause of national liberation.
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Speakers at the deeply moving event led prayer services and talked about the importance of educating the nation’s younger generations on the importance of the revolutionary tradition, patriotism and national pride.
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On March 16, 1968, US troops indiscriminately and brutally slaughtered 504 defenceless residents of the Tinh Khe commune, mostly elderly, women and children and destroyed the village.
