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Lao NEWS on LNTV: Obituary General Vo Nguyen Giap passes away at age 103. 7-10-2013

INTRO: General Vo Nguyen Giap, who was a former Politburo member, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Defence Minister and Commander in Chief of the Vietnam People's Army, passed away on October 4 at the age of 103 in Ha Noi due to old age, said a special communiqué released by the Communist Party of Viet Nam's Central Committee or CPVCC, the National Assembly, the President, the Government, the Viet Nam Fatherland Front Central Committee and the CPVCC's Military Commission on October 5. STORY: According to the special communiqué, the General died at the Central Military Hospital 108 at 6:09 PM on October 4. General Vo Nguyen Giap, who was a former Politburo member, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Defence Minister and Commander in Chief of the Vietnam People's Army acknowledged as one of history's great generals His surname Vo translates as "force" and his first name Giap means "strong armour", fitting perhaps for a man who helped bring about the defeat of major military powers. A dedicated communist, Vo Nguyen Giap never received formal military training but made his reputation as a talented strategist who engineered victories against forces which were, technically, far better equipped. Born in 1911 in Quang Binh Province in central Vietnam, then part of French Indochina, he was the son of a rice grower and attended local schools before, at the age of 14, joining a clandestine nationalist movement. While studying at Hanoi University, from where he graduated with a doctorate, he taught history at a private school in the city. He had a special interest in the military tactics of Napoleon, with one student recalling that he could draw the French Emperor's various battle plans from memory. By 1938 he was a member of Ho Chi Minh's Indochinese Communist party, eventually helping him found a new coalition, the Vietnam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoa, commonly known as Viet Minh, dedicated to ending French colonial rule. Giap organised armed groups and in 1944, returned to Indochina to wage guerrilla war against the occupying Japanese. During his revolutionary life spanning over 80 years, the General rendered significant services to the Party and the nation. As an eminent student close to President Ho Chi Minh, the first General and Commander-in-Chief of the Vietnamese People's Army, he was loved and respected by the people and international friends and a pride of generations of officers and soldiers nationwide. General Giap was awarded the Party and State's Golden Star Order, the Ho Chi Minh Order, the 70-year Party membership badge and many other noble orders and medals both at home and abroad. His death is a great loss to the Party, the State, people and army, the communiqué said, adding that a State funeral will be held for the General.