Ho Chi Minh City, May 1 (RHC)-- Vietnam has marked the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese forces seized the presidential palace in the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, today known as Ho Chi Minh City.
A ceremony and military parade was held in the city on Thursday. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung denounced what he called the "barbarous crimes" of the U.S. invasion, which killed at least three million Vietnamese. In Vietnam, the war is known as the "War of American Aggression."
