Ho Chi Minh City (AFP) – Vietnam holds funeral rites for more than 700 of its war dead on Wednesday, unearthed in a major push to identify those missing from decades of conflict with France and the United States. The 731 sets of remains, taken from individual and mass graves of fighters killed when US-backed forces crushed an uprising by communists in 1968, were exhumed from a tree-shaded public park, according to the military. “We had almost lost hope,” says Doan Van Cong, relative of a fallen soldier.
