Correcting the search for martyrs' graves using psychic methods
(Official dispatch No. 4486/UBND-VX dated August 4, 2011 of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee)
(Baonghean) - In order to promptly rectify the management of the sites for searching for martyrs' graves using psychic methods, and at the same time effectively carry out state management in the area, ensuring the legitimate rights of martyrs' relatives who wish to search for martyrs' remains, on August 4, 2011, the People's Committee of Nghe An province issued Official Dispatch No. 4486/UBND-VX requesting the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs, the Provincial Police, the Provincial Military Command, the Department of Information and Communications and the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to perform the following tasks:
1. Directing to step up propaganda and explanation work so that people understand that searching for martyrs' remains by psychic methods must be verified by scientific methods (DNA testing) to have accurate results. People's Committees of districts, cities and towns must strengthen state management (guidance, monitoring, supervision, inspection of law enforcement) for operating locations, not allowing more locations to search for martyrs' graves by psychic methods; promptly detect, prevent and strictly handle according to the provisions of law cases of violations (regarding prices, environmental sanitation, public order, fire prevention, etc.), false information, impersonating psychics to gain illegal profits.
2. For martyrs' graves currently managed in martyrs' cemeteries but lacking information, and whose relatives have identified them through psychic powers and wish to move them: People's Committees of districts, cities and towns report to the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs for synthesis and submission to the Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs (through the Department of Meritorious People) for guidance on identifying the remains through genetic technology (DNA). The results of the assessment are the basis for deciding whether to allow the remains to be moved according to the wishes of the martyrs' relatives.
3. For remains located outside the martyrs' cemetery that are searched for by relatives of martyrs through psychic methods and requested to be gathered in martyrs' cemeteries: The People's Committees of districts, cities and towns that receive the martyrs' remains shall report to the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs to synthesize and submit to the Ministry of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs (through the Department of People with Merits) for guidance on identifying the martyrs' remains through genetic technology (DNA). Based on the results of the assessment, the Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs shall guide the burial and installation of stele with the names of martyrs. Do not accept or bring to the martyrs' cemetery cases that do not have scientific basis to prove that they are martyrs' remains.
