Posters marking the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) ending the Vietnam War loom over an intersection in downtown Ho Chi Minh City on April 29, 2015. Forty years ago the bloody, decades-long war in Vietnam came to a dramatic end with North Vietnamese tanks crashing through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon. AFP PHOTO
The centre of Vietnam’s usually bustling southern business hub was sealed off ahead of the parade marking the moment tanks smashed through the gates of the Presidential Palace in the then southern capital of Saigon -- now named Ho Chi Minh City.
“That day my comrades and I were overjoyed as our country was totally liberated and we gained freedom and independence,” veteran Le Cong Bui, 63, who planned to attend the parade, told AFP.
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