The road to the Gac Ma Reef event Compared with the battle in Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands,  The soldiers who defended Truong Sa in 1988. On 30/4/1975, the On 09/9/1975, at the Asia Meteorological Conference in On 24/9/1975, at a meeting with the delegation of Vietnam, led by Party General Secretary Le Duan, Mr. Deng Xiaoping, vice president of the Communist Party of China and deputy prime minister, admitted that the problems between the two countries was the Xisha (Hoang Sa) and Nansha (Truong Sa) dispute. Deng promised: "The problem will be solved in the future." On 10/11/1975, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Vietnam Democratic Republic sent a diplomatic note to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterating Deng Xiaoping’s statement on 24/9/1975 and asked However, in a diplomatic note dated 24/12/1975, the On 3/12/1975, the Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in On 5/6/1976, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the On 2/7/1976, after the general election to unify the country, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was officially born. On 12/5/1977, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam issued a statement on On 7/10/1977, In September and October 1978, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong paid a visit to the In this period the relationship between On 17/2/1979, 600,000 Chinese troops attacked the six northern border provinces of On 15/3/1979, the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs published the White Paper on the border of On 3/7/1979, the Chinese civil aviation authorities set four dangerous zones in the Xisha airspaces (Hoang Sa) in order to force the world to admit Chinese sovereignty in Hoang Sa. On 7/8/1979, On 8/9/1979, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam made public documentation verifying On 25/3/1980, the Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed On 4/2/1982, the Vietnamese Government established Hoang Sa district in Quang On 9/12/1982, the Government of Vietnam established Truong Sa district. On December 28, 1982, the Vietnamese government decided to merge Truong Sa district into Phu Khanh province. In 1984, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam protested From 16/5 to 6/6/1987, the Chinese navy conducted exercises in the western Pacific and south of the On 10/11/1987, the Chinese navy occupied Louisa island in Many documents and articles called the event on 14/3/1988 when However, Commander Le Ke Lam and some international scholars said that it is totally inaccurate to call it a “naval battle” because Vietnamese forces on the islands of Co Lin, Len Dao and Gac Ma were only sappers and they were not equipped with weapons. Moreover, the Vietnamese ships on duty were transport ships. According to the declassified documents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Before taking action, Chinese diplomatic missions visited the countries involved in the In early 1988, the Chinese navy began seizing a number of islands in Truong Sa. Specifically, on 31/1/1988 In early March 1988, On the morning of 14/31988, four Chinese warships approached Gac Ma Reef. At 6am, 40 Chinese soldiers landed in the island, pulled off the Vietnamese flag on the reef and killed two Vietnamese soldiers who were protecting the flag pole. Vietnamese sappers, without weapons, tried to defend the national flag. Two Chinese naval ships fired straight into the Vietnamese sappers on Gac Ma Reef and the cargo ship 604. Captain Vu Phi Tru and several soldiers were sacrificed and the 604 ships sank. At the islands of Co Lin (3.5 nautical miles from Gac Ma Reef) and The massacre that lasted 28 minutes caused severe damage to Despite On 28/4/1990, In August 1990, Chinese Premier Li Peng proposed to conduct joint mining in Truong Sa area. On 1/12/1990, during his visit to the In March 2013 Sina.com praised the Chinese army’s brutal acts in Truong Sa as "seizing the opportunity" to "crush the unruliness of This site quoted a Chinese general as saying that the clash between Duy Chien, |
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